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Year: 2026Label: De La Rocka Music Two years after the blistering debut album Nightmare Reborn (review here), Finnish De La Rocka return with a new single. As project mainman Panu De La Rocka discussed in the interview I did with … Continue reading DE LA ROCKA: The Vampire
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records Misantropia Records’ demo compilation Satan, Sex And War (review) turned out to be a fortuitious thing. In and of itself, it was a welcome release showcasing a band that remained overlooked throughout its career. Finnish Epäkristus … Continue reading EPÄKRISTUS: Into Cold Tomorrow
Year: 2026Label: Western Star Records There’s some very familiar faces behind this unfamiliar name. The Coal Dust Cowboys is a joint venture between Alan Wilson of psychobilly pioneers The Sharks (and owner of Western Star Records) and members of veteran … Continue reading THE COAL DUST COWBOYS: Beneath The Old Slag Heap
Year: 2026Publisher: Aula & CoAvailable in: Finnish Tapio Kotkavuori is a name that probably won’t ring many bells outside of Finland – with the possible exception of active members of the Temple Of Set during the 90’s and noughties. However, … Continue reading Rautaniemi, Matti: TAPIO KOTKAVUOREN ELÄMÄ JA KUOLEMA
Year: 2026Label: Misantropia Records Finnish Hellboozer Union are one of those hidden obscurities of the underground, who enjoy a certain reputation but few know them more than by name. Of course, with only a handful of demos released since their … Continue reading HELLBOOZER UNION: s/t
Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries This is a hard release to review. Francesco Hernandez, sole member of Mexican Escuadron De La Muerte, passed away untimely in late 2022, before finishing the album he was working on. The tracks he had time … Continue reading ESCUADRON DE LA MUERTE: Prototype 1900-2020
Year: 2026Label: Steinklang Industries In the past year or so, I’ve been on a heavy Kenneth Grant trip (see here). I’ve been reading the nine books that constitute his so-called Typhonian Trilogies, which in Grant’s confusing, scarcely consistent and logical … Continue reading INFINEXHUMA: Savagery Of The Celestial Forearm
Year: 2026Label: Zoharum The last time we covered Polish Łubin, we dealt with a conundrum of an album. Gaza (review) was simultaneously insufferable, intolerable and incredibly potent; an album one just couldn’t ignore, even if one didn’t like it. Suffice … Continue reading ŁUBIN: Cargo
Year: 2025Label: self-released Although Finnish Altar Of Despair have been at it for a while already, ever since 2018 in fact, to the best of my knowledge this is their first release in a physical format. The band, still unsigned, … Continue reading ALTAR OF DESPAIR: Severance
Year: 2026Label: Bestial Burst Finnish Annihilatus have a long history behind them, but not a very long discography. Since their inception in 1999, the group have released only three albums, a mini-album and some sundries. One obvious explanation might be … Continue reading ANNIHILATUS: Exterminate
Only Death Is Real 