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Veilcaste – Precipice (Wise Blood Records)

It’s been a full eight years since Indianapolis Sludge Doom horde Veilcaste unveiled their debut album, ‘Old World Ritual’. Now though the band have returned with sophomoric offering ‘Precipice’ which has been packaged as both a CD and LP release… Continue Reading →

Oak – Disintegrate (Season of Mist)

Portuguese duo Pedro Soares and Guilherme Henriques (past and present members of Gaerea) have returned with OAK, their Atmospheric Funeral/Death Doom Metal project whose sophomoric full length release has been picked up for release on CD and LP by Season… Continue Reading →

Condenados – El Camino de la Serpiente (Evil Confrontation Records)

Chileans are noted for their passion as a people. When it comes to heavy metal, the word passion isn’t enough…it seems an ecstasy; a way of life- a calling if you will. This is something that is consistent with our… Continue Reading →

Inebrious Bastard – God Swipes Left (Crust Almighty)

We have touched upon this Australian based act a few times in the past with split releases and 7 inches and now they return with a full album of 14 tracks. Naturally due to the nature of the beast it… Continue Reading →

Sanguisugabogg – Homicidal Ecstasy (Century Media)

Those of you who follow the murky sewerage world of underground death metal will probably be already familiar with Ohio act Sanguisugabogg whose name is an amalgamation of ‘sanguisuga’ which is Latin for leech and the UK slang word for… Continue Reading →

Häxanu – Totenpass (Amor Fati)

Debut album ‘Snare Of All Salvation’ certainly created an impact when it arrived from out of nowhere back in 2020 and obviously as soon as its follow up landed in my inbox I was keen to get stuck into it…. Continue Reading →

Limbes – Ecluse (LADLO)

It has been a while since a band made me sit up and pay attention as much as Limbes’ latest release did. There I was expecting a polished, melodic atmospheric black metal album, but instead I had my face ripped… Continue Reading →

Rexoria – Imperial Dawn (Black Lodge)

Swedish Melodic Heavy Metal band Rexoria are actually no strangers to the scene. With a consistent line-up since their inception back in 2016 “Imperial Dawn” is their third release on three different record labels. Each album has seen the band… Continue Reading →

Elderseer – Drown in the Shallowness (Meuse Music)

Five years on from their debut offering, a demo entitled ‘Bind Us As One’, UK Melodic Death/Doom quartet Elderseer have finally returned to us, and with a debut full length offering in tow no less. Entitled ‘Drowned in the Shallowness’,… Continue Reading →

ACOD – Cryptic Curse (LADLO)

Well, I am again “cursing” at the “cryptic” nature of this French act. I mean, ACOD is a fish by any other name but what does it mean? The adopted moniker does not seem to translate, initialise with anything in… Continue Reading →

Memoriam – Rise to Power (Reaper Entertainment)

Are Memoriam the hardest working British Death Metal band? You’d be hard pressed to find a band who have been quite so industrious with their release schedule, with this – their fifth album in six years, and coming just less… Continue Reading →

Kringa – All Stillborn Fires, Lick My Heart (Van Records / Terratur Possessions)

This curiously titled work comes from Kringa, a band which has been around for 13 years and which has now released two full albums along with some eps and demos. Essentially a black metal band, one thing which comes across… Continue Reading →

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