SECT7: Obsessiveness Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum I know nothing about techno. That’s one of the genres I’ve never had much of an interest in or liked very much. This matters because that’s exactly what Polish Sect7 are: techno. But let’s … Continue reading Obsessing with Sect7
LUGOLA: The Truth Penetrates Your Mouth Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum It’s honestly a bit tough to write about power electronics from time to time. Especially in the case of an act like Lugola and their second album The Truth Penetrates … Continue reading Lugola penetrates your mouth
AMPSCENT: Ampscent Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum …It smells like a bad pun. And indeed, I do think this is a new low for the bad puns we are wont to use here at Only Death Is Real. But you’ll just … Continue reading I love the smell of amps in the morning…
WHALESONG: Leaving A Dream Release year: 2023Label: Zoharum/Old Temple Talk about a massive album. Polish Whalesong‘s newest, third full length album spans two discs and consists in total of two hours and ten minutes of music. That’d be a lot … Continue reading Leaving dreams
L’ÈGAREMENT D’ESPRIT: Written In Stone Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries How’s that for a title? It pretty much sets up the tone for what I’m going to talk about in this review, doesn’t it? Well, let’s get on with it. … Continue reading The problem with instrumental music…
LUGOLA: You Are Not Special Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries “You are not special!” chants Neithan, the sole person behind Lugola on the final track, the title track, of this album. The aggressive, hostile and simple to-the-point mantra is an … Continue reading Lugola’s parade of death
HEGEROTH: Perfidia Release year: 2020Label: self-released There’s that type of black metal sound which is tricky to write about. Not because it defies description or is something so unique there’s no reference for it. Quite contrary to the latter, in … Continue reading Hegeroth’s perfidy
VADER: Welcome To The Morbid Reich Release year: 2011Label: Nuclear Blast From their primitively death-thrashing roots, during the 90’s Polish Vader evolved to a veritable death metal machine, who’ve churned out extremely tightly played albums at a steady rate to … Continue reading A return to Vader’s Reich
VADER: Necropolis Release year: 2009Label: Nuclear Blast Taking another jump of almost a decade, we’re moving from 2000’s Litany on to Polish Vader’s 2009 album Necropolis, their 9th full-length album (not counting XXV, which consisted entirely of re-recorded songs). As … Continue reading Vader’s city of the dead
VADER: Litany Release year: 2000Label: Metal Blade Records From the demo collection Reborn In Chaos (our review here), we’re jumping some ten years ahead and on to Litany, Polish death metal machine Vader’s 2000 album, which is a good representative … Continue reading The litanies of Vader
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