Reviews across all categories: albums, books, movies.
Year: 2025Label:Warade No, this isn’t a new Ordo Rosarius Equilibrium album. It’s been a while since Nihilist Notes (review) was released – four years, in fact, so we’re starting to get hungry for something new. Instead, this is a two-in-one … Continue reading ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO: 4 Equilibrium & Nihilism
Year: 2026Publisher: Black Front PressAvailable in: English As established by Aleksandar Sazdovski in his intriguing analysis of Blood Axis in this essay anthology, neofolk is – or at least can be seen – as more than just a form of … Continue reading Southgate, Troy (ed.): EUROPA CALLING!
Year: 2026Label: The Circle Music If you’ve studied your black metal history, the combination of Greece and Magus should bring to mind a legendary character within the genre. I am, of course, referring to Magus Wampyr Daoloth, a scene legend … Continue reading THE MAGUS: Daemonosophia
Year: 2026Label: self-released There’s some new kids on the block. Finnish death metal has been going through a veritable resurgence in the last few years, with a new, young generation of kids discovering the joys of guttural vocals, down tuned … Continue reading INTUBATION: Undifferentiated Malignancies
Year: 2026Label: Xtreem Music Rogga Johansson is a name you will come across at some point if you’re into death metal. The list of bands he is and has been involved with is extensive, but at least not upon closer … Continue reading PAGANIZER: As Mankind Rots
Year: 2026Label: Schwarzdorn Production There’s something oddly familiar about this album, I thought on the first listen. But I just couldn’t put my finger on what it was. Going to Metal Archives and checking the members of the German-turned-Norwegian black … Continue reading ASARU: V.O.I.D.
Year: 2025Label: SharpTone Records US act Psycho-Frame’s debut is one of those albums that doesn’t beat around the bush. From the very first seconds of the first song, it plays with an open hand: this is deathcore. Of the stupidly … Continue reading PSYCHO-FRAME: Salvation Laughs In The Face Of A Grieving Mother
Year: 2025Label: Awakening Records Death metal is one of those genres where originality is sometimes a curse. Sometimes – oftentimes! – it’s better to stick to the established blueprint and not go out of one’s way to be original. Because … Continue reading DEFAMATORY: Path Of No Return
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum From Polish Zoharum’s latest batch of releases, this is simultaneously the easiest and the hardest to review. I’ve actually been sitting on this for a couple of days, mulling things over and trying to find an angle. … Continue reading KRISTOFFER OUSTAD: Magnor
Year: 202?Label: Steinklang Industries French Vologne’s debut tape, also on Steinklang (review), explored themes of unusual, dysfunctional minds and the deep recesses of the human psyche. As can be deduced from the title of this second tape, Vologne continue down … Continue reading VOLOGNE: Lost Illusions Turned Into Black Rage
Only Death Is Real 