MERCYFUL FATE: Don’t Break The Oath Release year: 1984/2020Label: Roadrunner Records/Metal Blade Records “I deny Jesus Christ, the deceiver/And I abjure the christian faith/holding in contempt all of it’s works /…/ I swear to give my mind, my body and … Continue reading The unbroken oath
AUTOKRATOR: Hammer Of The Heretics Release year: 2018/2019Label: Krucyator Productions Apparently, on earlier releases French Autokrator’s style was a mixture of death metal, doom metal and drone. I say apparently, because this is the first album I’ve heard by the … Continue reading Autokrator hammering heretics
ABYSMAL LORD: Exaltation Of The Infernal Cabal Release year: 2019Label: Hell’s Headbangers It’s obvious from the first tones of the intro: these guys are seriously into Beherit. Seriously into The Oath Of Black Blood. It’s the backbone and black lifeblood … Continue reading Exaltation Of The Abysmal Lord
BLACKHORNS: Rise Of An Infernal Sorcery/The Oath Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult The first thing I’m going to criticize about this album is the somewhat sloppy job done with the design. Firstly, the album name is spelled in two different … Continue reading Rise Of The Black Horns
ABHORROT: Abysmal Echoes Release year: 2019Label: Morbid Chapel Records Hailing from Austria, Abhorrot’s career amounted in a number of smaller releases and this one full-length album. Apparently the decision to kill off Abhorrot had already been made at the time … Continue reading Abysmal Abhorrots
PURTENANCE: Buried Incarnation Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music Finnish Purtenance are without doubt part of the legends of original Finnish death metal. Formed in 1991, they released their classic debut Member Of Immortal Damnation the following year and, like so … Continue reading Incarnations of Purtenance
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Schism Perpetration Release year: 2019Label: Krucyator Productions Hailing from the US and crushing skulls since 2016, the two-man band Antichrist Siege Machine are one of the younger purveyors of that niché genre of extreme metal known as … Continue reading Antichrist perpetration
UNHOLY ARCHANGEL: Kataclysmic Perversions Release year: 2019Label: Frost And Fire In comparison to Abominablood’s demo collection, which we reviewed earlier, this compilation of demo and split material by Greek black metal act Unholy Archangel does things far better when it … Continue reading Demon days with Unholy Archangel
ABOMINABLOOD: Dark Creatures In The Vacuum Of Dementia Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult Abominablood from Argentina – a solo project consisting of pseudonym Venomous – tread the precarious line between black and death metal, where words such as “war metal” … Continue reading Dark creatures of Abominablood
D APHELIUM: Profetian Om Dygden Och Plikten Release year: 2020Label: Black Market Metal Label/Wolfspell Records Sometimes it seems like the 90’s Swedish black metal scene gets kind of overlooked these days, apart from a few choice names. I mean, Marduk … Continue reading D Aphelium’s prophecies
