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Year: 1948/2025Publisher: Star Regulus PressOriginal title: Himmlerin salaseuraAvailable in: English, Finnish and possibly other languages During the summer of 1935, a young Finnish student of the Sorbonne in Paris decides to travel from France to Finland by foot. He ends … Continue reading Grönhagen, Yrjö von: HIMMLER’S SECRET SOCIETY
Year: 2020Label: self-released We return to Brazilian Lupusvir’s eccentric sounds. Although in a somewhat backwards fashion: this is actually the one man project’s first release, and .//passport_to_filg4ia (review) their second. I don’t think it matters too much. Both releases are … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//repeated_grey_fields
Year: 2025Label: self-released Whilst listening to MetaForm, Bulgarian Dimholt’s new album, I returned to my review of their previous album Epistēmē (here). I find that most all I wrote in the review still applies to the band, and describes quite … Continue reading DIMHOLT: MetaForm
Year: 2025Label: Bluelight Records Earlier this year, in our From the Vaults series, we covered British Beltane Fire’s sole album Different Breed (here). Beltane Fire is the fourth moniker of the band, best known and loved as neobilly act The … Continue reading BELTANE FIRE: White Stag
Year: 2022Label: self-released I actually have a tenuous link to Brazilian Lupusvir. We both appeared on the 2024 digital-only compilation Knife City. Beyond that, I didn’t know much about the one man project, except for a vague understanding that it … Continue reading LUPUSVIR: .//Passport_to_filg4ia
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum And all of a sudden, we’re out of our depth once again. This happens every time with Zoharum’s promo batches. Sometimes it’s something wildly experimental, sometimes something extremely oddball. And this time around, it’s something far simpler: … Continue reading HRV: Actually Not A Lifeparty
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Ever active UK act Rapoon are at it again, this time with colleagues Pas Musique from the other side of the Atlantic. It’s the first time we cover a joint effort by them, but the two groups … Continue reading RAPOON & PAS MUSIQUE: Knowledge Has No Enemies But The Ignorant
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This here’s a weird album. Apparently, Stephen Āh Burroughs of Tunnels Of Āh fame got his hands on some recordings by Polish Genetic Transmission and was so impressed by them, he decided to do his own reinterpretation … Continue reading FRAG: Frag Deconstructed Genetic Transmission
Year: 2025Label: Inverse Records Already for decades, Finland has been a veritable breeding ground of black metal. Where in the 90’s Finland never really achieved the status our neighbours to the west did, despite having a couple of absolute primogenitor … Continue reading VALONTUOJA: Tulesta syntynyt
Year: 2004/2025Label: Die Schöne Blumen Musik Werk/Zoharum Polish Zoharum delve once again into the Genetic Transmission archives to uncover yet another long out of print, obscure release from Tomasz Twardawa’s vast archives. This time, the Zoharum treatment gets 2004’s My … Continue reading GENETIC TRANSMISSION: My Inspiration Is You
Only Death Is Real 