PANDEMMY: Subversive Need Release year: 2021Label: Big Bad Wolf Records/Headbangerz Records What’s in a name, eh? Obviously, the name of an artist will most often be the first impression the potential listener gets, and as such, the wrong name might … Continue reading Pandemmy for pandummies
TENEBRO: Liberaci Dal Male Release year: 2020/2021Label: Dismal Fate Records/Xtreem Music Italy has a long history of gruesome and macabre horror movies. The giallos of Dario Argento, the blood-drenched horror of Lucio Fulci and the notorious Cannibal Holocaust by Ruggero … Continue reading The crude death of Tenebro
GORR: Kvit Som Snøen, Kald I Blikket Release year: 2021Label: self-released Starting out as a one-man band from the northwestern coastline of Norway, Gorr has since then expanded across the Atlantic. Joining founding member Skuggimaðr on guitar is Hateful Wind … Continue reading The transatlantic black metal of Gorr
HÅN: Breathing The Void Release year: 2021Label: Northern Silence Productions I don’t know exactly why, but for some reason whenever a non-Nordic artists adopts a name that’s in one of the nordic languages, my reaction is immediately negative. I admit … Continue reading Hån breathing a void
NIGHTSIDE: The End Of Christianity Release year: 2001/2020Label: Sound Riot Records/GoatowaRex Finland’s history with black metal is both long and illustrious – already during the earliest days of what was to become known as the second wave of black metal, … Continue reading Nightside’s call to war
FROZEN SOUL: Crypt Of Ice Release year: 2021Label: Century Media Ever since seminal UK death metal group Bolt Thrower threw in the bolt, I mean the towel, in 2016, their absence has been felt. Of course, already since before they … Continue reading Crypt of frozen souls
LAW OF CONTAGION: Woeful Litanies From The Nether Realm Release year: 2020Label: Moribund Records Citing acts such as Beherit, Mystifier, Mortuary Drape and classic Mayhem as references, the promo sheet certainly paints with broad strokes when speaking about Portugese one-man … Continue reading Woeful Litanies Of Contagion
ANTHROPIC: Architects Of Aggression Release year: 2020Label: Jbudz Records/Sevared Records/Haunted Hotel Records Grindcore’s a funny old genre, isn’t it? The bastard child of early extreme metal and equally early extreme punk, taking musical aggression to ludicrous levels of straightforwardness, has … Continue reading Anthropic Aggression
HEGEROTH: Perfidia Release year: 2020Label: self-released There’s that type of black metal sound which is tricky to write about. Not because it defies description or is something so unique there’s no reference for it. Quite contrary to the latter, in … Continue reading Hegeroth’s perfidy
SOULSKINNER: Seven Bowls Of Wrath Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Music On their newest, in total fifth full-length album, Greek death metal act Soulskinner face changes. This is their first album without former vocalist Gothmog (also of Thou Art Lord fame), … Continue reading Seven bowls of Soulskinner
Only Death Is Real 