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DE LA ROCKA: De La Rocka Release year: 2023Label: Bad Billy Records Back in February, we took a look at former Graveyard Bashers guitarist Panu De La Rocka’s first solo release, the single Out Of This World – out due … Continue reading Transmissions from Planet Psycho
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
SORROW: Death Of Sorrow Release year: 2023Label: Xtreem Music Sorrow who, I hear you ask. That’s a fair question – there are a number of acts named Sorrow we could cover over here, from Death In June collaborator Rose McDowall’s … Continue reading Sorrow dying
Heikkilä, Timo: IHMEINEN – Tietäjän ihmiskäsitys ja mielen arkeologia Release year: 2022Publisher: Viides AskelAvailable in: Finnish I think it was in Protector of the Sacred Flame, an essay anthology on the life and thought of Julius Evola, that one of … Continue reading Archaeology of the Finnish mind
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
LÄJÄ ÄIJÄLÄ AND ALBERT WITCHFINDER: Triumph & Ordeal Release year: 2023Label: Svart Records When speaking of legends within Finnish extreme music, they don’t come much more legendary than Läjä Äijälä. Vocalist and band leader of hardcore pioneers Terveet Kädet (whose … Continue reading Through ordeals to triumph?
SACRENOIR: Comme Des Revenants Parmi Les Ruines Release year: 2023Label: Sepulchral Productions Hot on the heels of yesterday’s review of Trépas’ new album Les Ombres Malades (here), we continue our foray into Canadian territory. Sacrenoir might be a somewhat newer … Continue reading Like ghosts among the ruins
TRÉPAS: Les Ombres Malades Release year: 2023Label: Sepulchral Productions On their 2007 album F.O.A.D., Norwegian black metal legends Darkthrone had a song called Canadian Metal – a tribute to the 80’s metal classics of Canada, but also a sort of … Continue reading The sickly shadows of death
Only Death Is Real 