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Review: Defiled – Altered State [Season of Mist]

I just finished my third listen to Altered State and I’m still catching little things I missed the first time around. Defiled have been around...

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Review: HELL TREPANNER – The Consecration of Eternal Impurity [Awakening Records]

Fuck yes. This is exactly the kind of death metal I needed today! Hell Trepanner come from Lima, Peru and apparently have no interest whatsoever...

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Review: Blood Incantation – All Gates Open [Century Media Records]

Uhhhh… Well, this one caught me completely off guard. When I saw Blood Incantation had released the soundtrack to their own documentary, I honestly wasn’t...

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Review: Maneating Orchid – Cold Logic [Subcontinental Records]

Holy shit! Every now and then an album comes along that completely derails whatever you were planning to listen to that day. Cold Logic did...

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Review: Voivod – Symphonique [Century Media / Sony Music]

I’ll be honest: when I first heard that Voivod had recorded a live album with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, my expectations weren’t particularly high. Not...

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Review: Dimmu Borgir – Grand Serpent Rising [Nuclear Blast Records]

With flickering flames and that familiar whiff of sulphur hanging in the air, DIMMU BORGIR have finally returned. Eight long years after Eonian, the Norwegians...

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Review: HECATE ENTHRONED – The Corpse of a Titan, A Lament Long Buried [M-Theory Audio]

After seven years since Embrace Of The Godless Aeon, I wasn’t sure what to expect, but they actually came through. This feels like proper Hecate...

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Review: Burning Creation “Sea of Dead Bodies” [Via Nocturna]

At the end of November 2024, the young Polish band Burning Creation released their debut album “Sea of Dead Bodies” via the independent local label...

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Review: Svar “In the Land Called Night” [Via Nocturna]

At the end of 2024, the Polish one-man black metal project Svar released its debut full-length album In the Land Called Night through the local...

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Gig report: Sirenia, Meteora (Zagreb CRO 3.5.2026.)

Ever heard a gothic metal band live with constant feedback on the microphone? How about two? Read on. As a colleague said two nights ago...

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Gig report: Monstrosity, Bio-Cancer, Reject the Sickness and Deadwood (Zagreb, CRO 21.04.2026.)

If there ever is going to be a Tampa Bay death metal encyclopedia under the term of “flown under the radar,” there should be a...

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Report: Bucharest Deathfest 2026

Bucharest Deathfest kicked off on March 7th, in Quantic club, with Walk Alone, which unfortunately I missed to see, but the show went on with...

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Gig report: Metal, Beer, and Pure Noise: War Metal Brutality in Primarius: Attitudes to Human Extinction, Proklet, and Zlobnik

On Saturday night, February 21, 2026, Primarius Brewery in Heinzelova street hosted the third volume of war metal brutality. The underground metal gig brought together...

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Review: Chaos Over Cosmos ”The Hypercosmic Paradox” [Independent release]

Show me the way to the eye of the tornado… This one has been a real challenge. It’s not only the music itself – it’s...

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Review: Winter’s Breath “Eine Düstre Winternacht” [Running Wild Productions]

Honing a familiar craft… You probably should not expect the most original, genre-bending, unique record when you’re about to deep-dive into a Winter’s Breath release....

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Review: Iskariot “Zelot” [Running Wild Productions]

Stahlstadt Metal par excellence… Linz is not only one of the major cities in Austria, but it’s also a veritable spawning ground for metallic talent...

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Review: Dying Grotesque “Celestial” [Archivist Records / Grand Sounds PR]

In late autumn of last year, the Ukrainian death metal band Dying Grotesque released their sophomore full-length album Celestial via the local label Archivist Records,...

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Review: Intra Nigrum “Logos” [Putrid Cult]

In the final days of last autumn, the Polish one-man band Intra Nigrum, which plays atmospheric depressive black metal with ambient elements, independently released its...

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Review: Coroner “Dissonance Theory” [Century Media Records]

Just who is in charge now? Being aware of this band and its status without actually taking the time to sit down with its highly...

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Carnivore A.D. + Brutala + Collective Rage – Live in DVA OSAM (03.12.2025. Zagreb CRO)

Greetings and felicitations, children of technology. It was a Wednesday night on the wrong side of town, where even city buses rarely venture. I suppose...