GRAND CELESTIAL NIGHTMARE: Excluded From Light And The Pleroma Release year: 2022Label: Nuclear War Now! Productions/New Era Productions Grand Celestial Nightmare – whose name sounds like another silly Dimmu Borgir album title – is another in a long list of … Continue reading Celestial nightmares and exclusion from light
IKU-TURSO: Into Dawnless Realms Release year: 2022Label: Wolfspell Records/Korpituli Productions Finnish-Dutch Iku-Turso are at it again: Into Dawnless Realms is the successor to 2020’s Pakana (reviewed here), and it sees the band continue on the same path as before. So, … Continue reading No dawn for Iku-Turso
LIVE BY THE SWORD: Exploring Soldiers Rise Release year: 2021Label: Rebellion Records US-Dutch Live By The Sword have been at it for a few years already, releasing a few 7″‘s and one 12″ MLP as well as partaking on a … Continue reading Living by the sword
IKU-TURSO: Pakana Release year: 2020Label: Wolfspell Records Last time we bumped into Finnish-Dutch Iku-Turso, named after a sea monster in Finnish national epic Kalevala, was with their Storm Over Isengard mini-album. That album saw them go into full 90’s Norway … Continue reading Into the heathen foray
GRIM FATE: Perished In Torment Release year: 2020Label: Xtreem Records Heavy, lurching old school death/doom is a well that never seems to run dry. The classic sound, which seemingly forever plays second fiddle to the speedier brutal death metal of … Continue reading A grim fate to perish
IKU-TURSO: Storm Over Isengard Release year: 2019Label: Wolfspell Records/His Wounds Were it not for the title of the mini-album, Dutch-Finnish Iku-Turso would come across as shamelessly ripping off the entire style of certain classic 90’s Norwegian black metal acts. But … Continue reading Iku-Turso paying homage to Norway
Only Death Is Real 