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
MAVORIM: Ab Amitia Pulsae Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire German black metal act Mavorim are one of those names I’ve been aware of for years and who’ve popped up ever so frequently, but whom I’ve never really paid much … Continue reading The German darkness of Mavorim
THE KRYPTIK: A Journey To The Darkest Kingdom Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire I was recently made aware of the “genre” of blue castle black metal: albums with a blue tinted cover artwork depicting majestic mountains, vast forests, gloomy … Continue reading A journey to the kryptik kingdom
KVAD: So Old Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire As anyone and everyone will know, Norwegian black metal is a bit of a thing. Not just the fact that once upon a time, a bunch of Norwegian teens spearheaded the … Continue reading Amidst Kvad’s thunder and demonic ecstasy
NIGHTSIDE: Lions Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire Finnish Nightside released a small body of material in the late 90’s and early noughties, the majority of which was compiled on the album-slash-compilation The End Of Christianity (reviewed here), and then … Continue reading New emanations from the nightside
Only Death Is Real 