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Year: 2025Label: Bestial Burst Famously, the old saying proclaims that third time’s the charm. Finnish black metal trio Moon Oracle prove that with their third album. In our reviews of their two earlier albums (here and here) we applauded the … Continue reading MOON ORACLE: Guardians Of The Lunar Spheres
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum This is one of the tricky situations when you’re a reviewer. A live album by a band you’ve never heard before. Live albums quite rarely open up themselves for the newcomer, or are fully representative of how … Continue reading THE HOLY FAMILY: Live Burning, Burning Live
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum You know the old Lovecraftian couplet, “That is not dead which can eternal lie/And with strange aeons even death may die”? Stephen Ah Burroughs of Tunnels Of Ah fame apparently does, or at least proves its veracity. … Continue reading COMICIDE 24: Chronic Transfusion
Year: 2025Label: Kymijoen levyt Everything about Finnish Kuningas and their new, second EP Naisia spells out loudly in big capital letters an earnest albeit clumsy love for heavy metal. From the shakily hand-written promo sheet to the rudimentary cover art … Continue reading KUNINGAS: Naisia
Year: 2025Label: Zoharum Polish Brandkommando belong to the rather prolific end of the post-industrial spectrum. This year marks the 20th anniversary of their first release. During these two decades, the one-man project has released a respectable 43 releases according to … Continue reading BRANDKOMMANDO: Enslavement
Year: 2025Label: Altare Productions/Purity Through Fire We’ve come a long way from the inception of black metal, from the days when a one-sided satanic outlook was an absolute necessity for the genre. I don’t think an album inspired by the … Continue reading PRIEURÉ: Jusqu’au Bénitier
Year: 2024Label: Rebellion Records Rebellion Records are really ushering into a new era of crossover as of late – or maybe label owner Wouter is, more like. His band Live By The Sword has been pushing the envelope of how … Continue reading HEATHEN PEACE: Civilisation Ends Here…
Year: 2025Label: self-released (distribution via Steinklang Industries) This album has been a long time in the making. multinational H.E.R.R.’s ambitious album Vondel’s Lucifer – First Movement was released way back in 2006. As implied by the name, it was not … Continue reading H.E.R.R.: Vondel’s Lucifer – Second Movement
Year: 2025Label: Heidenvolk Though they have slowed down their pace, German Darkwood remain a staple of contemporary neofolk. With their distinctive, and distinctively German sound, the group consisting of Henryk Vögel and supporting musicians, play no small part in keeping … Continue reading DARKWOOD: Verlorene Welt
Year: 2025Label: Majik Ninja Entertainment It’s been a while since the terrible trio of Alla Xul Elu graced us with a new album. 2023’s Lost Lakes Estates was a collaboration with Super Famous Fun Time Guys; the previous proper AXE … Continue reading ALLA XUL ELU: Gods Of Evil Rise
Only Death Is Real 