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Review: FØG “La niebla de las ánimas” [Australis records]

What do we know about Chile, this South American country stuck between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes Cordillera? Not much! Oh sure, Allende or...

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Review: Szary Wilk “Wrath” [Putrid Cult]

In the land of Solidarnosc, Metal music is king: Vader, Decapitated and for Black metal in all its forms: Behemoth, Batushka, Mgla, Darzamat as well...

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Review: Hevilan “Symphony of Good and Evil” [Brutal Records]

This heavy and power metal album with symphonic influences has some good ideas, some slightly more disposable songs, but always some interesting vocal work. The...

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Review: Cathartic Demise “In Absence”

Ah!! Finally some thrash music to listen, moreover a non-European band which comes straight from lands of the maple syrup. Cathartic Demise hails from Kitchener,...

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Review: Sigh “Infidel Art” [Cacophonous Records]

Falling between the grim Scorn Defeat and the even stranger, mania of Hail Horror Hail, Infidel Art sees Sigh heading into a theatrical direction that had not been explored before....

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Review: Caedes Cruenta “Of Ritual Necrophagia and Mysterious Ghoul Cults” [Helter Skelter / Regain Records]

Third album from Greece’s Caedes Cruenta brings us over an hour of manic macabre metal to upset the neighbours with. Eerie samples, moody synths, melodious...

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Review: Lotan “Nihil sacrum” [Uprising!]

Yesterday evening at midnight, everything was ready for the big weekly incantation, for a very Black Metal evening. I had received an EP “Nihil Sacrum” from...

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Review: Amoriello “Dear Dark” [Sliptrick records]

Here is one confused and confusing EP. This is the kind of record where a wild bunch of different ideas are all thrown one after...

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Review: Chainsword “Blightmarch” [Godz Ov War Productions]

After a couple of singles three years ago Polish death metalheads Chainsword joined the forces with local extreme label Godz ov War Productions to release...

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Review: Nodfyr “Eigenheid” [Ván Records]

Ván Records proudly presents the debut full-length album “Eigenheid” from Dutch pagan/heavy metal band Nodfyr, active on the metal scene for ten years now. This...

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Review: Terrordome “Straight Outta Smogtown” [Selfmadegod Records]

Fast, furious, fun – that’s Straight Outta Smogtown in 3 words. Carrying the carefree thrash/punk flame of the likes of Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies, Poland’s Terrordome address the current political climate...

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Review: Varang Nord “Pārķiuņa Uomurs” [Sliptrick records]

What do we hear in the distance? A war horn through winter and mist! Varang Nord attacks and the world knows the fury of the...

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Review: Asgardsrei “End of the Night”

”War is hell” William T. Sherman once said. Now the Asgardsrei crew might not have any war experience at all, but I’m sure that they’re...

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Review: Fractal Generator “Macrocosmos” [Everlasting Spew Records]

Their second LP after a 6 year wait, Canada’s death metal trio Fractal Generator return with 9 scathing tracks designed to unsettle and stimulate in equal measure....

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Review: Druadan Forest / Old Sorcery [Werewolf]

The Finnish Werewolf Records, well-known for their black metal collaborations, this February has released the Split of two local bands – Druadan Forest and Old...

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Review: Culted “Nous” [Season of Mist]

After a couple of releases with Relapse Records the Canadian-Swedish formation Culted has joined forces with the label Season of Mist, and this February was...

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Review: Grabunhold “Heldentod” [Iron Bonehead]

As moody and pensive as the ex your mother never liked, Dortmund’s Grabunhold impress with their first full-length, Heldentod, released on Iron Bonehead Productions. It’s...

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Review: Evil “Possessed by Evil” [Dying Victims Productions]

If Japanese old school crossover blackened thrash metal is your thing, then Possessed by Evil by, yep, Evil, might just be up your alley. Sounding like the offspring...

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Review: Baest “Necro Sapiens” [Century Media Records]

Here is a nice, gory, horror-themed death metal album. Expect a lot of heaviness, brutal themes and a lot of evil fun. First, you have...

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Review: Zebadiah Crowe “Lych Milk”

This EP may be a ‘companion piece’ to Zebadiah Crowe’s last release, the remix mini-album The Cloven Hand, but that doesn’t mean Lych Milk isn’t...