UNANIMATED: Victory In Blood Release year: 2021Label: Century Media Unanimated belong to the original breed of Swedish death metal: having formed already in 1988, they were certainly among the earlier purveyors of the genre. Whilst they definitely have a following, … Continue reading Victories in blood
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN: Veil The World Release year: 2011/2015/2021Label: Cold Spring Records Back in 2008-2013, when Swedish ritual industrial entity Trepaneringsritualen started out and almost immediately started to make a name for themselves, I was in the heaviest harsh noise/power electronics phase … Continue reading Veil the world in ritual rust
PUTREVORE: Miasmal Monstrosity Release year: 2021Label: Xtreem Music If you’re into death metal, more than likely you’ve come across extremely prolific Swedish guitarist Rogga Johansson or one of his bands such as Paganizer or Johansson & Speckmann (where he teams … Continue reading Putrescent Monstrosities
ARDITI: Bloodtheism Release year: 2018/2020Label: SkullLine As far as martial industrial in the 21st century goes, Swedish Arditi definitely belong to the genre’s leading names. Debuting in 2003 with the 7″ Unity Of Blood, the belligerent Swedes have since then … Continue reading Arditi’s religion of blood
AT THE GATES: The Nightmare Of Being Release year: 2021Label: Century Media What if you don’t like an absolutely classic band, a band whose status and stature are well beyond the realm of opinion? Should you review their latter day … Continue reading A nightmare at the gates
LAWMAKER: All Work, No Class Release year: 2021Label: self-released Oi! and working class street punk are forms of music that are often derided as sounding rather samey; someone once made the joke that there are about a dozen oi! albums … Continue reading Sons of the working class
DESOLATOR: Sermon Of Apathy Release year: 2020Label: Black Lion Records Swedish Desolator are no newcomers to the game: they formed already in 2009, but prior to this only have one full-length album and assorted smaller releases to their name. Oh … Continue reading Sermon of Desolator
D APHELIUM: Profetian Om Dygden Och Plikten Release year: 2020Label: Black Market Metal Label/Wolfspell Records Sometimes it seems like the 90’s Swedish black metal scene gets kind of overlooked these days, apart from a few choice names. I mean, Marduk … Continue reading D Aphelium’s prophecies
So, Only Death Is Real has witnessed the first year-end, and it is time to jot down some thoughts as summary for 2019 and a plan of action of sorts for 2020. The site was created in mid-May, and since … Continue reading A year in summation: 2019
UNANIMATED: Ancient God Of Evil Release year: 1995/2008Label: No Fashion Records/Regain Records As is well-known, and has been established even on this site a number of times, Sweden in the 90’s was a true hotbed for death metal. Unanimated, formed … Continue reading The ancient evils of Unanimated
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