Release year: 2024Label: Ambirial Mvsic Productions/Misantropia Records According to a statement included in the booklet of this album, Enter The Seasonal Ritual is, and I quote, “more a soundtrack to an unmade folk horror film rather than a conventional album.” … Continue reading THE CULT OF SUNLIGHT: Enter The Seasonal Ritual
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
Release year: 2017/2024Label: Iron Bonehead Productions/Misantropia Records Whilst certainly not unheard of, all-female and female solo black metal projects are still a relative scarcity. Everyone who’s been involved in black metal since the 90’s will probably remember Greek Astarte, and … Continue reading IESCHURE: The Shadow
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records In our review of Finnish Waeltaja’s previous album Heremite (review here), we remarked that it made us want to like dungeon synth – but lamentably few releases fare well in comparison to it. As such, … Continue reading WAELTAJA: Beholding The Ruins Of My Kingdom
Release year: 2024Label: Misantropia Records Put together, the two acts on this split have (according to Discogs) a total of 63 releases since 2012. That’s pretty prolific – but scarcely balanced, considering Somber Winds is responsible for two of these, … Continue reading KALMANKANTAJA/SOMBER WINDS: Split
PERMANENT SOLUTION: Permanent Solution Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Sometimes a bit of obscurity can be a good thing. It can lend a sense of mystery or excitement to something. At other times, it may be even counterproductive. Ultimately, Finnish … Continue reading Solutions of a lasting nature
YRITYS: Delusion(s) Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records The name Yritys has caused chuckles among Finnish audiences – and for good reason, too. You see, the Swedish band were, I assume, trying to convey depressed, nihilistic and misanthropic images with a … Continue reading A last attempt
VOIDWIND: Clad In Your Misery Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records To tell you the truth, I’m not a huge fan of atmospheric black metal. I find that too often it loses itself in its meandering songs, emphasizing the atmosphere over … Continue reading Clad in Voidwind’s misery
THE SUSPENDED APPARITION: It’s Sealed Inside The Church Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records My real introduction to all kinds of industrial and post-industrial music was some twenty-odd years ago, in the early noughties, in the form of dark ambient music. … Continue reading Apparitions inside the church
TURTUMUS: Jälleenheräävä viha Release year: 2023Label: Misantropia Records Ever since the mid-noughties or so, Finnish black metal has been a pretty dominant and influential thing in the underground. The so-called Finnish sound, a combination of melancholic melodies and uncompromising rawness, … Continue reading From numbness to hate
Only Death Is Real 