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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: 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...

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Review: Hogstul “Ominous Fragmenta Tuptdalr”

A band: HOGSTUL, a brain: Kjetil Ytterhus, also keyboardist with PROFANE BURIAL, an album: “Ominous Fragmenta Tuptdalr“. Three long tracks including an eponymous one: “A...

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Review: MYRHOLT “…sjelebot…”

Clearly if you do not know what pure original Norwegian black metal is and you are eager to learn about it, one priest: MYRHOLT, one...

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Valfreya – Release Music Video For “Warlords”

Canadian Melodic Black/Folk Metal band Valfreya release music video for “Warlords”, the song taken from band’s second full-length album “Promised Land”. Watch “Warlords” here on band’s official youtube channel Music...

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Review: Imha Tarikat “Sternenberster” [Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge]

Imha Tarikat is Turkish for set of destruction. That is the right description of the second record from the black metal duo from Germany. There...

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Review: AKHLYS “Melinoë” [Debemur Morti Productions]

Naas Alcameth who you may know from Nightbringer, is known for his dark and nightmare awakening musical creations. AKHLYS is an emotional ride for the...

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Review: Urkraft “Urkraft” [Narcoleptica Productions]

Permeating in the dark fog, under the full moonlight of the Norwegian sky arises the black metal, one-man band known as ‘Urkraft’. Fronted by one...

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Review: Worm Shepherd “In The Wake Ov Sòl”

We begin here in instrumental that converges into the heavy bringing on a haunting feeling and depressive overtones that continues thrusting the blades deeper into...

Interview: THRON

Thron is a German black metal act, which presents a new album entitled as Pilgrim. An album with a mix of sound elements from black...

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Review: Hulder “Godslastering Hymns of a Forlorn Peasantry” [Iron Bonehead]

Antwerp/Portland’s black metal multi-instrumentalist returns with her first full-length album since starting out with 2018’s promising EP Ascending the Raven Stone. In true black metal...

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Review: THRON “Pilgrim” [Listenable Records]

Thron’s impressive run in blackened melodic death metal continues with their third LP in 6 years. A bestial release that shows off their colours – feral...

Video interview with Malice Divine

Interview video with Malice Divine, a Black-Death Metal project from Canada. https://www.facebook.com/malicedivineband https://www.instagram.com/malicedivineofficial

Interview: MORK

Norwegian black metal act, Mork, released an EP at the end of November, entitled as Pesta, I’d say an interesting release name, framing today’s situation...

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Review: Valravn “Prey” [Primitive Reaction]

Valravn is a Finnish black metal band formed in 2016. On 4 December 2020, their first album “Prey” was officially released. It features sounds typical...

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Review: Snøgg “Ritual of the Sun”

One long-format song, a ritualistic paean to the Mayan sun god, Kinich Ahau, set to an organically shifting, amorphous black metal soundtrack. This is the...

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Review: Empire of the Moon “Έκλειψις” [Iron Bonehead Productions]

A trip down the Hellenic memory lane I will never be able to abandon the Greek metal scene. Of course there have been varying degrees...

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Review: Pure Wrath “The Forlorn Soldier” [Debemur Morti Productions]

Pure Wrath is a one-man atmospheric black metal band from Indonesia, and his new ep entitled The Forlorn Soldier pushes the boundaries of the genre...

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Review: Marche Funebre “Einderlicht” [BadMoodMan Music / Hypnotic Dirge Records]

Mixing elements like ingredients in an alchemical brew, Marche Funebre bring us a unique sound that bridges genres and emotions. A cinematic experience, Einderlicht expertly...

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Review: Sacrilegious Profanity “Genocide Rituals”

Well, at least right now I am convinced that 2020 is not yet completely a piece of fucking year… Seeing that the last fucking days...