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Review: Vicious Rumors “Digital Dictator” [Roadrunner Records]

Although it would take Vicious Rumors three years to release a second album, Digital Dictator would be the definite album of this band and it’s easy to...

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Review: Stormnatt “The Crimson Sacrament” [Ashen Productions]

Stormnatt… a band that I have been aware of, since earlier this year. I never knew that Antimessiah was ever even a part of this...

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Review: Metal Church “Hanging in the Balance” [Rising Sun Productions]

There are two things you can be certain about when it comes down to Metal Church. For one, they retained a sense of integrity over...

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Review: The Ruins of Beverast “Rain upon the Impure” [Ván Records]

Like an ugly, yet captivating painting that somehow manages to capture’s one attention, Rain upon the Impure is one of those things that could only fall under...

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Review: Metal Church “Masterpeace” [Nuclear Blast America]

I’m not sure why, but I can’t help but think that Metal Church’s later period has been rather overlooked. A shame, really, as I’ve recently...

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Review: Paradise Lost “Drown in Darkness – The Early Demos” [Century Media Records]

While I’ll clearly call myself a Paradise Lost fan, Drown in Darkness – The Early Demos wasn’t something I was necessarily looking forward to. Lost Paradise still ranks...

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Review: Withered “Verloren” [Season of Mist Underground Activists]

This band describe their music as “tortured blackened death metal”, and indeed, this is a great way to describe this eerie, heavy, strange and experimental...

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Review: Cryopathic Thanatology “Untold Stories of the Morgue”

Cryopathic Thanatology is a newly formed death metal project by Karnatorh (guitars, bass & songwriting) and Ossilor (vocals) or by their own words: „A death...

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Review: Code “Flyblown Prince” [Dark Essence Records]

One thing I find really amusing with this Progressive Black Metal outfit from London is how they manage to change their sound for each album...

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Review: Torfrom “Culto al terror” [Australis records]

Only their first full release since their inception in 1992, Chile’s Torfrom bring us their very long-awaited debut LP, Culto Al Terror, a 40-minute death...

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Review: Taake / Helheim “Henholdsvis” [Dark Essence Records]

Here is a nice little split disc, where although you wish there was more music to get your hands on, what actually is there is...

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Review: Serpent Throne “Beyond the Chains of Decadence” [Australis Records]

Their first full-length since their first demo release in 2012, Serpent Throne deliver 47 minutes of crossover metal straight from Chile’s underground scene. An intro...

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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: 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: 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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Exclusive premiere: CTHONICA “The Bonds of Infernal Abhorrence”

Venezuelan aural plague Cthonica re-emerge from the sepulchers and sewers of Caracas with a new chapter in their abominable saga of repulsive and sepulchral ritualistic...

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Review: Demoniac “So It Goes” [Edged Circle]

The Chilean thrashers Demoniac have returned this year with a brand new album “So It goes” after three years of silence (apart from the Live...

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Review: Astral Tomb “Degradation of Human Consciousness” [Blood Harvest]

It’s your best friend’s birthday and you don’t know what gift to choose for him, don’t hesitate, make him discover this EP “Degradation Of Human...

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Review: Children of Technology “Written Destiny” [Hells Headbangers]

If you put every heavy metal cliché in an Eppenmayer flask and let everything incubate for 48 hours you will get “Written Destiny” from Children...