Mysticism 17 articles

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Review: Blood Incantation – All Gates Open [Century Media Records]

Uhhhh… Well, this one caught me completely off guard. When I saw Blood Incantation had released the soundtrack to their own documentary, I honestly wasn’t...

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Review: Vrag – Rendületlenül [Filosofem Records]

A year ago, Hungarian multi-instrumentalist Roland Neubauer returned with his black metal project Vrag, releasing the fourth full-length album Rendületlenül through the local label Filosofem...

Interview with Defeated Sanity

Hi there! Lille, you’ve been driving Defeated Sanity since the very beginning. How has your approach to songwriting and composition evolved since the band’s early...

Interview with Nightfall @ Hellfest 2023

We met Efthimis and Fotis from Nightfall at Hellfest 2023 and had a great talk about new music, metaphors in lyrics and everything around. Thanks...

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Review: Kataklysm “Goliath” [Nuclear Blast]

Here’s a punchy, heavy album about fighting the power that doesn’t always work but has some good songs, and mostly lots of energy. The theme...

Interview with Kari and Jaakko of Sepulchral Curse

Hi! The evolution of Sepulchral Curse‘s sound has been described as expanding and diverse. Could you tell us about the key influences and experiences that...

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Review: Immortal “War Against All” [Nuclear Blast]

Get ready for a blast of cold wind, or rather, music that feels like one, the best kind of black metal. This is the kind...

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Review: Ignea “Dreams of Lands Unseen” [Napalm Records]

For their new album, Ignea take us on a trip around the world, with musical experiments and strange adventures. Are you ready? Dreams of Lands...

Video
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Music Video: ENSLAVED “Kingdom”

Today, Enslaved release a stunning new track titled ‘Kingdom‘ alongside an evocative concept video. The unorthodox Norwegians have found themselves at an intersection of sorts, where the...

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Review: Unto Others ”Strength” [Roadrunner Records]

With shiny diamonds and tarnished gold comes bittersweet emotions… I got into Idle Hands around the release of their debut album Mana back in 2019...

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Review: Enslaved “Caravans To The Outer Worlds” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Let’s get in our caravans for a trip through musical worlds. We’ll have a lot of adventures and hear all sorts of musical ideas along...

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Review: Nightfall “At Night We Prey” [Season of Mist]

After eight years of silence the Grecian dark metal legends Nightfall have returned with a brand new full-length work “At Night We Prey”, getting a...

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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: StarGazer “Psychic Secretions” [Nuclear War Now! Productions]

The Australian extreme avant-garde formation StarGazer has returned with their fifth full-length album “Psychic Secretions” through the Nuclear War Now! Productions. And that’s a significant...

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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: Argentum “Ad Interitum Funebrarum” [Full Moon Productions]

When one speaks of mid-paced black metal, there are often a variety of scenes and/or bands that come to mind; think of the Greek trinity,...