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Review: Dead Sleep – Repulsion

I threw this on expecting some decent Swedish thrash and ended up liking it more than I thought I would! Repulsion is only five tracks,...

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Review: Warning – Rituals of Shame [Relapse Records]

Twenty years since Watching From A Distance… That album was huge for me back then, so I went into this one pretty nervous. I kept...

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Review: GOLD SPIRE – Steps into Shadow [Awakening Records]

Steps into Shadow took me a while to figure out. Not because it’s especially difficult, but because every time it seemed ready to settle into...

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Gig report: Sarcofago, Bezdan, Buzzsaw (Zagreb, CRO 16.06.2026.)

First heat wave in the venue of Močvara was marked by another of those bands (or better mentioned) music that you did not have in...

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Review: Dea Artio ”Alpenwut” [Running Wild Productions]

Turmoil in the Northern Limestone Alps… I remember writing about how Dea Artio was a project brimming with lush, atmospheric soundscapes atop a black metallic...

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Review: Nunslaughter – Satanic Chaos Legions [BLKIIBLK Records]

I put this on expecting exactly what you’d expect from a new Nunslaughter record – fast riffs, blasphemy, a bit of chaos, maybe a couple...

Gig report: Possessed, Serpentslain, Corpsegrinder, Haxanking (Zagreb, CRO 10.06.2026.)

Well, here we are again. I can still vividly recall standing outside Mocvara three years ago, in disbelief, waiting to see the band Possessed. If...

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Review: DEUS SABAOTH – Distortion of Lies [Paragon Records]

I wasn’t familiar with Deus Sabaoth before this album, which is probably why Distortion of Lies ended up being a pleasant surprise. The Ukrainian project...

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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...