Year: 2024Label: Comatose Music Uh oh, I wonder if we’re going to Facebook jail or at least quarantine because we use fuck in our URL and title? Italian Corpsefucking Art and their PR guy seem to be aware of this … Continue reading CORPSEFUCKING ART: Tomatized
Year: 2024Label: Time To Kill Records/Kick/Narcotica Publishing Death metal and grindcore are genres naturally predilected towards violence. Themes of gore, sadism, violence and all things splattered with viscera are the bread and butter of both genres. However, Finnish deathgrind duo … Continue reading GOATBURNER: Fatal
Release year: 2024Label: Vicious Witch Records With a name like Thrasherwolf, you’d be forgiven if you assumed this UK group play thrash metal. However, nothing could be further from the truth. If I had to pin a genre name to … Continue reading THRASHERWOLF: Inside The Sickened Mind
Year: 2024Label: Svart Records So many artists, so many releases, so little time. Especially when your musical tastes are somewhat extensive and far reaching, this equation becomes impossible – and I do consider my taste to be just that. As … Continue reading PETRIFICATION: Sever Sacred Light
Something a bit different in our series of gems from the archives – but no less deserving of an entry: the first book attempting to give an overview of the phenomenon called black metal. The book by Michael Moynihan (of … Continue reading From the Vaults #14: Lords of Chaos
Year: 2024Label: The Cursed Order/Folter Records/Korpituli Productions Curse Upon A Prayer are one of those bands I’ve always seen mentioned and have heard vaguely positive comments about, but for some reason haven’t gotten around to checking. So when the digital … Continue reading CURSE UPON A PRAYER: The Worship: Orthoprax Satanism
I remember how, back when this, Finnish Satanic Warmaster’s debut was released, the reactions in Finland among friends and on message boards were almost unequivocally positive and enthusiastic. In retrospect, there was a feeling as of standing at the precipice … Continue reading From the Vaults #13: Strength & Honour
Release year: 2024Label: Zoharum If you want weird, you got weird. Polish Królówczana Smuga’s sixth album is a veritable cornucopia of, well, just about everything. The label’s promo sheet mentions as influences and key elements keywords such as folklore, alternative, … Continue reading KRÓLÓWCZANA SMUGA: Konwulsanki
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Now that’s a tongue twister. Zvjerovanje. I mean, it’s not as insane as Polish, but that’s still too many incompatible consonants at the start of the word. But I guess that’s Serbo-Croatian for ya. Apparently, … Continue reading ZVIJER: Zvjerovanje
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records As those who’ve been following this site for a while might know, I first got into extreme metal in the mid-to-late 90’s and by the turn of the millennium was firmly entrenched in the underground. … Continue reading COLDSCAPE: Kolme laulua kuolemasta
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