BLASPHEMATORY: Depths Of The Obscurity Release year: 2019/2020Label: Nihil Verum Nisi Mors/Nuclear Winter Records US duo Blasphematory certainly don’t aim low; in the promo sheet, they invoke the names of such gloomy luminaries of ancient Finnish death metal murk as … Continue reading Blasphematorial depths of obscurity
LIVE BY THE SWORD: Exploring Soldiers Rise Release year: 2021Label: Rebellion Records US-Dutch Live By The Sword have been at it for a few years already, releasing a few 7″‘s and one 12″ MLP as well as partaking on a … Continue reading Living by the sword
GORR: Kvit Som Snøen, Kald I Blikket Release year: 2021Label: self-released Starting out as a one-man band from the northwestern coastline of Norway, Gorr has since then expanded across the Atlantic. Joining founding member Skuggimaðr on guitar is Hateful Wind … Continue reading The transatlantic black metal of Gorr
FROZEN SOUL: Crypt Of Ice Release year: 2021Label: Century Media Ever since seminal UK death metal group Bolt Thrower threw in the bolt, I mean the towel, in 2016, their absence has been felt. Of course, already since before they … Continue reading Crypt of frozen souls
ANTHROPIC: Architects Of Aggression Release year: 2020Label: Jbudz Records/Sevared Records/Haunted Hotel Records Grindcore’s a funny old genre, isn’t it? The bastard child of early extreme metal and equally early extreme punk, taking musical aggression to ludicrous levels of straightforwardness, has … Continue reading Anthropic Aggression
XAEMORA: At Dusk Of Existence Release year: 2020Label: self-released There’s an art in how to properly tap into the sound and style of yesteryear without sounding cheap or void of ideas. I’ve touched upon this a couple of times already, … Continue reading Xaemora’s manifestos
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Morbid Triumph Release year: 2017/2020Label: Krucyator Productions The cumbersomely named Antichrist Siege Machine from the US are among the newer crop of bands exploring the narrow but bountiful realms of bestial black metal and/or war metal. Having … Continue reading Antichrist triumph
ABYSMAL LORD: Exaltation Of The Infernal Cabal Release year: 2019Label: Hell’s Headbangers It’s obvious from the first tones of the intro: these guys are seriously into Beherit. Seriously into The Oath Of Black Blood. It’s the backbone and black lifeblood … Continue reading Exaltation Of The Abysmal Lord
BLACKHORNS: Rise Of An Infernal Sorcery/The Oath Release year: 2019Label: Putrid Cult The first thing I’m going to criticize about this album is the somewhat sloppy job done with the design. Firstly, the album name is spelled in two different … Continue reading Rise Of The Black Horns
ANTICHRIST SIEGE MACHINE: Schism Perpetration Release year: 2019Label: Krucyator Productions Hailing from the US and crushing skulls since 2016, the two-man band Antichrist Siege Machine are one of the younger purveyors of that niché genre of extreme metal known as … Continue reading Antichrist perpetration
Only Death Is Real 