KISS: Creatures Of The Night Release year: 1982/2022Label: Mercury Records I saw Kiss live on their Psycho Circus tour in the late 90’s, probably at the time in my life most suitable for witnessing the spectacle that a Kiss concert … Continue reading Kissing creatures of the night
LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Glorious Dead E.P. Release year: 2022Label: Rebellion Records As I wrote in my review (read here) of US-Dutch Live By The Sword’s debut full-length, Exploring Soldiers Rise, they represent an oi! band of a new … Continue reading Remembering the glorious dead
DJEVEL: Naa Skrider Natten Sort Release year: 2022Label: Aftermath Music We’ve reviewed Norwegian Djevel’s two previous albums (here and here), and have come to consider the band as something of a single-entity latter-day resurgence of the classic norsecore sound and … Continue reading In Djevel’s black night
ONSLAUGHT KOMMAND: Demo I Release year: 2022Label: Godz Of War Productions Ah, South America. Home to throngs of underrated and cult-level extreme metal acts, and a veritable breeding ground of everything rabid, slavering, boneheaded, bestial and crude when it comes … Continue reading Pervert goat onslaught kommand
UNFYROS: Alpha Hunt Release year: 2022Label: Aural Hypnox Empyrean Editions Having found your way to this site, chances are the name Aural Hypnox will ring a bell. It is, after all, a label responsible for many a latter-day classic within … Continue reading The slithering darkness of Unfyros
LUNAR SPELLS: Demise Of Heaven Release year: 2022Label: Northern Silence Productions When the promo sheet states the band are from Greece and mention “old school”, I’m surely not the only one to stop reading and think of Rotting Christ, Varathron … Continue reading Lunar spells bring the demise of Heaven
HERBSTLETHARGIE: Melancholie Im Blattfall Release year: 2022Label: Northern Silence Productions There’s no mistaking it, looking at the cover of German Herbstlethargie’s debut album: atmospheric black metal is the name of the game. And, considering both project title (German for “autumn … Continue reading German autumn lethargy
VERMILIA: Ruska Release year: 2022Label: self-released Some time around the time of Finnish one-woman act Vermilia’s debut album Kätkyt (2018), I saw the project described as “hygge black metal” – a pretty derisory remark in a way, but also apt. … Continue reading Autumn in vermillion colors
SERPENTFYRE: Baptism Of Shadows Release year: 2022Label: Altare Productions I don’t quite remember when I realized that Finnish black metal had become a concept emulated the world over, almost a successor to the Norwegian 90’s sound in terms of impact … Continue reading Baptism of serpent fire
DEMOLYN: Tales Of Demolyn Release year: 2022Label: self-released Remember demos? You know, back in the day, when bands would record self-produced material in their rehearsal room or some cheap studio and release it themselves on tape, later CDr? The advent … Continue reading Tales of Demo-lyn
Only Death Is Real 