AVULSED: Extraterrestrial Carnage Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music It’s been a while since long-running Spanish death metal act Avulsed released anything – six years in fact. As such, this fresh new release will probably not sate the thirst of old … Continue reading Extraterrestrial avulsion
DEIMHAL: The Grand Gathering Release year: 2023Label: self-released One somewhat curious phenomenon is that of black metal projects by middle aged members of bands with more renown. There’s no shortage of these, and typically these projects don’t look to the … Continue reading Deimhal’s grand gathering
CORPSESSED: Skeletal Grotesquery Release year: 2023Label: Krucyator Productions Live albums are something of a tricky thing to review. For the most part, live albums are essentially pure fan service, giving something to the fans they’ll hopefully appreciate. Very rarely does … Continue reading Corpsessed’s live grotesquery
SLEEP OF MONSTERS: ｢｢｢ Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records It’s been a long wait for fans of Finnish occult rockers Sleep Of Monsters: their previous album II: Poison Garden was released way back in 2016. And for some of us, the … Continue reading Third time’s the charm?
TERVEET KÄDET: Kaikki kaikkia vastaan Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records Terveet Kädet should need no introductions. But because this intro would be awfully short without it, we’ll do one anyway. So, Terveet Kädet are more than legends within hardcore and … Continue reading Everyone’s war on everyone
TURTUMUS: Jälleenheräävä viha Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Ever since the mid-noughties or so, Finnish black metal has been a pretty dominant and influential thing in the underground. The so-called Finnish sound, a combination of melancholic melodies and uncompromising rawness, … Continue reading From numbness to hate
NIGHTSIDE: Lions Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire Finnish Nightside released a small body of material in the late 90’s and early noughties, the majority of which was compiled on the album-slash-compilation The End Of Christianity (reviewed here), and then … Continue reading New emanations from the nightside
MOON ORACLE: Ophidian Glare Release year: 2023Label: Bestial Burst/Signal Rex Two years after their debut album, Finnish trio Moon Oracle are back with another helping of mystical, doom-ladened black metal. Whilst some things have changed, the core essence of traditional … Continue reading Serpentine stare of the moon oracle
ABYSMAL LORD: Bestiary Of Immortal Hunger Release year: 2022Label: Hell’s Headbangers Imagine, if you will, an alternate reality where seminal Finnish black metal act Beherit never changed their style from their early releases encapsuled on the debut album The Oath … Continue reading Abysmal bestiaries of black blood
COLDNESS/IRAE: We Are The Ashes Release year: 2023Label: Nekrogoat Heresy Productions Portugese black metal and the Portugese black metal sound is something of a thing. I suppose it can be safely called an acquired taste: often leaning towards the incessantly … Continue reading Portugese ashes
Only Death Is Real 