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Review: Wode “Burn In Many Mirrors” [20 Buck Spin]

Blackened melodic thrash of the aggressively atmospheric variety is served with aplomb in just over 39 minutes on Burn in Many Mirrors from Manchester’s Wode....

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Review: Marble “S.A.V.E.” [Sliptrick records]

Here is a pretty cool mix of power, heavy and symphonic metal, with catchy choruses, powerful verses and riffs, and an overall epic and fun...

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Review: Exises “Reternity” [Cymbeline Records]

How often do bands become better after taking a ten year gap between their debut and their follow up? Yeah, not many, but sci-fi geeks...

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Review: The Body “I’ve Seen All I Need to See” [Thrill Jockey Records]

The Body is a band that I have been enjoying since their 2018 album “I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer”. Though...

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Review: Monte Penumbra “As Blades in the Firmament” [End All Life Productions / Oration Records]

The Portugal experimental blacksters Monte Penumbra have returned this March with a new creation “As Blades in the Firmament”, more and more descending into deep...

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Review: Orden Ogan “Final Days” [AFM Records]

This March the German metal stars Orden Ogan have released their seventh full-length album “Final Days”, based more on dark sci-fi themes during these apocalyptic...

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Review: Cruentus “Night Embrace Me”

This is an album with a few good ideas, even though it’s overall not that special. It’s a nice blend of black and thrash metal...

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Review: Montuln “Arquetipo” [Australis records]

Way too good to be black metal, not quite heavy enough to death metal, it’s the melodic and melancholy Arquetipo from Chile’s Montuln. Chilean metal...

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Review: Distant Past “The Final Stage” [Pure Steel Records]

In Switzerland, we have: the banking system, the cows (usually black & white), the Milka chocolate, Ovomaltine, the “Grasshopers” at Zürich, some famous headquarters of...

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Review: Vicarivs Filii Dei “Non Cogitant sed Tamen Sunt” [Darker than Black Records]

Non Cogitant sed Tamen Sunt is an album that if ever given the opportunity, I’m sure I would be able to write so much more...

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Review: Vicarivs Filii Dei “Index Librorum Prohibitorum” [Hell Awaits Records]

If my review of Index Librorum Prohibitorum seems out of place in parts, it’s only due to the fact that I had listened to Vicarivs...

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Review: Zaratus “In The Days Of Whore” [Ván Records]

The experimental black metal scene this year can heave a sigh of release, the new Grecian band Zaratus has worked hard, presenting this blend of...

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Review: Necropanther “In Depths We Sleep”

On March 12th, the Colorado-based band Necropanther has released independently their latest EP “In Depths We sleep”, which this time belongs to their guitarist Paul...

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Review: Anthem “Bound to Break” [Nexus]

Between the mediocre debut and Anthem‘s final record that would feature Eizo Sakamoto for a while, this band would keep getting better and better, as Bound...

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Review: Totale Vernichtung “Feuerbestattung” [Darker than Black Records]

Totale Vernichtung… Feuerbestattung… This album, in its entirety is the epitome of all that is held dear, and beautiful. Feuerbestattung is an album that from...

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Review: Totale Vernichtung “Feuer und Krieg”

I have so many thoughts, feelings, and emotions about Feuer und Krieg when listening to it. This album, in its entirety, is such an exquisite...

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Review: Totale Vernichtung “Die pechschwarze Artillerie” [Darker than Black Records]

I want to make something perfectly clear in this review. Antimessiah / Totale Vernichtung is a true gift that has been graced upon this world....

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Review: Zebulon Kosted “Torches Behind The Waterfall” [Hammerkrieg Productions]

I’m really excited to be writing this review, as Torches Behind the Waterfall was my 2020 album of the year release. The first track “The...

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Review: Snær “Frozen Alchemy”

The United States of America are synonymous with freedom for many, it is also the lands of the Big Four. However by dint of aging...

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Review: Astralvm “Awakening”

A cosmic journey through space and time… As I am writing this review, it’s not often that I listen to older material before listening to...