Despite a career spanning a decade, several albums and connections to cult Finnish act Slugathor, doom-laden death metal entity Desecresy have never ascended from the murky depths of the deep death metal underground. With a new album, Towards Nebulae, being … Continue reading At the threshold of Desecresy’s dark cosmos
INCANTATION: Onward To Golgotha Release year: 1992Label: Relapse Records In the days before convention set in and artists started looking too much to the icons of their own scenes for inspiration, there was a beautiful amount of diversity in death … Continue reading Incantation leading us onward to Golgotha
WARMOON LORD: Burning Banners Of The Funereal War Release year: 2019Label: Wolfspell Records Everything about Finnish one-man project Warmoon Lord and their (his) debut album reeks of pure, unadulterated and unashamed nostalgia. Everything. From how the digipak looks to how … Continue reading Nostalgia for middle-aged black metallers with Warmoon Lord
INCANTATION: Upon The Throne Of Apocalypse Release year: 1995/2019Label: Relapse Records As the liner notes of the 2019 re-release of Incantations‘ third full-length output detail, the material on the album is in essence a demo of what eventually became US … Continue reading Once again unto the apocalypse with Incantation
CONVULSE: Inner Evil Release year: 2013Label: Svart Records World Without God, the debut album of Finnish Convulse all the way from 1991, is quite likely my favourite death metal album from Finland. And it’s not like there’s a lack of … Continue reading A brief moment of evil with Convulse
FESTERDAY: The Four Stages Of Decomposition Release year: 2015Label: Svart Records Whilst a choice few Finnish death metal groups from the blooming scene of the early 90’s went on to achieve cult status and a dedicated underground following, there were … Continue reading Festerday decomposing one stage too far
GOREMENT: The Ending Quest Release year: 1994/2016Label: Crypta Records/Century Media In the early 90’s, there were quite a few hotbeds for the then fledgling death metal genre, all of which crafted their own unique sound and identity, that would eventually … Continue reading Gorement’s all-too-soon ending quest…
Only Death Is Real 