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PUISSANCE: War On Release year: 1999/2020Label: Fluttering Dragon/SkullLine In terms of martial industrial and martial neoclassical music, I think you can safely call Swedish Puissance pivotal. No, they weren’t the first to do this kind of music, but it seems … Continue reading Warring on with Puissance
REEK: Porn For Satan Release year: 2021Label: Iron, Blood and Death Corporation One of the most established sounds within death metal is – as we have often enough established here at Only Death Is Real as well – Swedish death … Continue reading Reeking for Satan
JULII: Interregnum Release year: 2021Label: self-released Neoclassical project Julii are keeping busy: this is already the third release this year, following the full-length album Taste Of Triumph and the EP/demo Rats Of The Senate (reviewed here and here). Three releases … Continue reading Julii between regimes
V/A: Spiritual Sounds For Artsakh Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries A bit of background to begin with, to better understand the nature of this two-disc compilation release. Artsakh is a region between Armenia and Azerbaidjan, which has been contested for … Continue reading Spiritual support for Artsakh
CARVED IN STONE: Wafts Of Mist & The Forgotten Belief Release year: 2021Label: Schwarzdorn Production A long, long time ago, back when I was working with my first webzine, I received for review a compilation called In Wüsten Lohe by … Continue reading Of mist and a belief carved in stone
DEIFIED SHREDS: Overcoming The Fractal Deception Release year: 2021Label: Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Sometimes you just know from looking at the cover what kind of music an album is going to contain. I mean, take Greek Deified Shreds‘ first … Continue reading Reviewified shreds
ULTRAPOLAR INTRUSION: This War Will Have No End… Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries According to the description of the label, Russian Ultrapolar Intrusion’s new album is, and I quote, “an oppressive and brutal chronicle of a war that never ceases … Continue reading A war that has no end
KROMORTH: Opposition Release year: 2021Label: Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Although the term “bestial” is usually applied to bands of a more black metal bent – primitive, furious bands who lace their violent, archaic black metal with elements from equally … Continue reading Satanic opposition
BRESTHAFT: Rottenverse Release year: 2021Label: Steinklang Industries You could be forgiven for mistaking Rottenverse for a black metal or death metal album at a quick glance. The logo certainly looks like it could belong to an extreme metal band. And … Continue reading Rotten verses
SVPREMACIST: Meaningless Death Release year: 2021Label: Repose Records/Iron, Blood And Death Corporation Hailing from Israel, Svpremacist ask us the ultimate question with their debut album: is even death real? Do the makers of this website of questionable repute have to … Continue reading Is even death real?
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