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This Week’s Picks – Sept 12, 2025

Hey from hot Arizona! This is the first “This Week’s Picks”! The plan is to do it (or at least try to) every week, sharing...

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Review: KRYPTA “Krypta”

At the very end of last autumn, a Ukrainian gothic/doom band from Kyiv released their first self-titled album Krypta without the help of any labels....

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Review: Antipope “Doors of the Dead” [Moribund Records]

At the end of October last year, the Finnish traditional metal band Antipope released their latest album Doors of the Dead through the iconic American...

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Review: Labyrinthus Stellarum “Rift in Reality” [Archivist Records]

How about a trip through space, to some industrial black metal? Something that sounds catchy, yet deep and dark as the cosmos, with a sometimes...

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Review: The Orphaned Bee “Thinking Without Language” [Bird’s Robe Records]

I remember back a couple of months ago, catching The Orphaned Bee‘s – Thinking Without Language EP on YouTube… the image on the cover… a...

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Review: Draugaskógur “Fullmoon Hypnotic Ritual” [Inferna Profundus Records]

I find this new offering somewhat difficult to review. You know, the prospects are loud and clear; a certain Varg Vikernes influence still rears its...

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Review: Barshasketh “Antinomian Asceticism” [World Terror Committee]

The concept of Antinomianism is an ages olde rebuttal to the notion that religious people – namely Christians – are required to live by an...

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Review: Ancestor of Kaos – Animal Ritual [Horror Pain Gore Death Productions]

This is a fast, threatening wild beast, not always the most memorable album you’ve ever heard, but one with undeniable energy. We get a great...

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Review: Draugveil “Cruel World of Dreams and Fears”

Draugveil‘s Cruel World of Dreams and Fears is an epic 90s black metal album that wasn’t released in the 90s; although, it could’ve easily passed for...

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Review: Arkhaeth “Profound Lore of the Ashen Specters” [Abyssal Spectra / Zazen Sounds]

The exploration of Luciferian doctrines and their implications on the human spirit; development of self and the quest for enlightenment – the attaining of forbidden...

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Review: Lucifer’s Child “The Illuminant” [Agonia Records]

The Greek Black Metal scene was birthed alongside the Norwegian movement, and has kept in stride with it in some ways and surpassed it in...

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Review: MYR “Helvegen”

The path to Hel is an open one. It requires very little guidance, as its way is paved through the heart of every man; torchlit...

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Review: Beleth’s Trumpet “Chapel of Bones” [Dominance of Darkness Records / Korpituli Productions]

As the night approaches with its grim intent to hold the land of Suomi captive, and as Daemons writhe beneath the Huntress moon as it...

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Review: Ancient Torment “Follow the Echo of Curses” [Eternal Death]

The great passing on – life’s precious embers finally extinguished by Death’s icy grip, and nothing to show for it but time so frivolously wasted....

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Review: Vokodlok “The Egregious Being”

Man, the old days of Black Witchery and Bestial Warlust were fucking great. It’s bands like these mentioned that I think of whenever someone starts...

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Review: FleischSchirm “SchirmHerrschaft” [Running Wild Productions]

Skulls cracked, bones spun to pieces and brain cells melted. To be perfectly honest with you, this one came as quite a surprise, despite being...

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Review: Nemus Anima “Rivers Flow Red”

The renowned Finnish black metal scene has produced some of the finest Black Metal bands to have ever struck a chord or to have penned...

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Review: Lacabra “Lacabra” [M-Theory Audio]

Seattle, Washington, USA’s Lacabra – forged upon the ruins Locisteller and featuring a pack of seasoned artists – began their journey dead set upon making...

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Review: Grave Circles “World Within the World” [Schattenkult Produktionen]

Let’s dive into an abyss where only the sound of blackened doomy old school death metal emerges. This album has everything that’s awesome about 90s...

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Review: Endonomos “Endonomos II – Enlightenment” [Argonauta Records]

At the end of last autumn, the Austrian doom/death metal band Endonomos released their second full-length album Endonomos II – Enlightenment via Argonauta Records. On...