Year: 2025Label: Altare Productions/Purity Through Fire We’ve come a long way from the inception of black metal, from the days when a one-sided satanic outlook was an absolute necessity for the genre. I don’t think an album inspired by the … Continue reading PRIEURÉ: Jusqu’au Bénitier
Year: 2024Label: Rebellion Records Rebellion Records are really ushering into a new era of crossover as of late – or maybe label owner Wouter is, more like. His band Live By The Sword has been pushing the envelope of how … Continue reading HEATHEN PEACE: Civilisation Ends Here…
Year: 2025Label: Rebellion Records With their third album, US-Dutch Live By The Sword keep on consolidating their sound, and staying away from anything easy to pigeonhole. At this stage, the band exist in a liminal zone between metal and oi!, … Continue reading LIVE BY THE SWORD: The Pagan Pantheon
Year: 2025Label: Theogonia Records Greek black metal act Lloth have a long and somewhat winding history. The group was originally formed in 1995, and released a single demo in 1997. After that, they changed their name to Astarte, who were … Continue reading LLOTH: Archees Legeones
Year: 2025Label: Hellprod Records/Murder Records Portuguese black metal. Whilst for most it may not ring a bell, for those who do, it usually associates to exceedingly raw, lo-fi and abrasive stuff. Ugly stuff, and a bit of an acquired taste. … Continue reading VETUS SANGUIS: Capítulo I – Dimensão Horrenda
Year: 2025Label: Napalm Records British extreme metal legend Cradle Of Filth’s career has been a weird one. Up until and including Midian (2000), they were on a serious roll without so much as a single miss. Midian is actually a … Continue reading CRADLE OF FILTH: The Screaming Of The Valkyries
Release year: 2025Label: self-released Wait, what, did I mistake this band for someone else? That was my first thought when putting on Swedish Demolyn’s new EP. See, in comparison with the debut release Tales Of Demolyn (reviewed here), Slay The … Continue reading DEMOLYN: Slay The Godhead
Year: 2025Label: Xtreem Music “So, how long will we have to wait for a new full-length?” we asked in our review of Spanish Avulsed’s previous release, the two-track EP Extraterrestrial Carnage. And now we have the answer: almost two years. … Continue reading AVULSED: Phoenix Cryptobiosis
Year: 2024Label: Werewolf Records Released at the butt-end of 2024 with little to no advance hoopla, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s Exultation Of Cruelty seemed to come a bit like a thief in the night. All of the sudden it just sort … Continue reading SATANIC WARMASTER: Exultation Of Cruelty
Year: 2025Label: World Breaking Records/Primitive Reaction If there’s one thing I didn’t predict for 2024, it was the comeback of Finnish black metal pioneers Beherit. But come back they did, and I got to witness them live twice last year. … Continue reading BEHERIT: Live In Praha CZ
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