Year: 2025Label: Misantropia Records The Swedish suicidalists are back at it. Last year’s mini-album Apostate (review) saw Yritys expand their sound from the most generic DSBM towards an at times more aggressive and traditional black metal sound. The result was … Continue reading YRITYS: Mors Mecum Ambulat
Year: 2025Label: Century Media US deathcore act Lorna Shore have truly been the talk of the day for the past couple of years already. Seems like nobody into hard, heavy and extreme music is without an opinion of them. Just … Continue reading LORNA SHORE: I Feel The Everblack Festering Within Me
Year: 2025Label: Out Of The Dungeon Finnish The Chamberlain are a band with a definite vision for their music. It’s pretty singular idea, but not too constrictive. At least the Finns don’t run out on ideas on this, their debut. … Continue reading THE CHAMBERLAIN: Draconian Magick
Year: 2025Label: Norma Evangelium Diaboli It’s been quite a while since we last heard from Spanish Teitanblood. Their previous album was 2019’s The Baneful Choir (reviewed here); since then, it’s been awfully quiet. Luckily, however, it was not the quiet … Continue reading TEITANBLOOD: From The Visceral Abyss
Year: 2025Label: Zazen Sounds/Monastyr Records/Forbidden Keep Records Those who’ve been following this site for a while might have realized that my tastes in black metal lean in a very specific direction. If it’s knuckleheadedly, primitively and stubbornly bestial; if it … Continue reading CELESTIAL SILENCE: Silent Calls From The Other Side
Year: 1992/2025Label: Misantropia Records We’re going about this a bit backwards, reviewing first Polish black metal legend Graveland’s third demo and turning our gaze now to the first and second demos. Honestly, we could come up with some fancy and … Continue reading GRAVELAND: Necromanteion
Year: 1992/2025Label: Misantropia Records Polish Graveland have had a few distinct phases in their career. Nowadays they are known for a very epic brand of viking black metal, where the influences from viking era Bathory are proudly on display. However, … Continue reading GRAVELAND: Drunemeton
Legendary heavy metal singer, front man and larger-than-life persona Ozzy Osbourne (1948-2025) passed away yesterday at the age of 76. News of his passing came mere weeks after his final concert, the massive Back To The Beginning event in Birmingham, … Continue reading In memoriam: Ozzy Osbourne
Year: 2025Label: Bestial Burst Famously, the old saying proclaims that third time’s the charm. Finnish black metal trio Moon Oracle prove that with their third album. In our reviews of their two earlier albums (here and here) we applauded the … Continue reading MOON ORACLE: Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres
Year: 2025Label: Kymijoen levyt Everything about Finnish Kuningas and their new, second EP Naisia spells out loudly in big capital letters an earnest albeit clumsy love for heavy metal. From the shakily hand-written promo sheet to the rudimentary cover art … Continue reading KUNINGAS: Naisia
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