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Blood Countess – Occulta Tenebris (Dominance Of Darkness / Repose Records)

Bit behind the curve on this. Some of you may remember me raving about the Blood Countess demo back in 2019 with the charmingly named The Cuntess on vocals (Eastern Front, Daemona). Been a rocky old time and now in… Continue Reading →

Adamantis – The Daemon’s Strain (Cruz Del Sur)

US Power/Heavy Metal band Adamantis really hit the ground running with their full length debut album (released by Cruz Del Sur last year) and with every intention of striking while the iron’s hot, they’ve released a new 4 track EP… Continue Reading →

Blues for Neighbors – From Roaming About (Road Rat Records)

“Two guys from Poland making music together since forever. There were many bands and even more music genres, now they sit in a kitchen, smoke cigarettes and worship old ghosts with cursed folk blues notes.” The band description for Polish… Continue Reading →

The House – Horror Tribute Collection (Avantgarde)

Before I wore eyeliner. Before I wore upside down cross earrings to Scouts church parade.  Before the skulls, the long hair, the leather jackets, the pretending to worship Satan and the various hair dye jobs, (no wonder I am bald) and… Continue Reading →

Temple Of Decay – Rigor Mortis (Godz Ov War)

Virtually anything on the Godz Ov War roster is worth checking out especially if you like utter extremity and brutality. Information is rather scant on this Polish band having only dredged up that it is a solo project by a… Continue Reading →

Berator – Elysian Inferno (Dark Descent)

Well this is a little charmer of an EP out of Chicago. A nice, gnarly build up on ‘Sultans Of Incest’ before the rabid dogs are unleashed in an avalanche of old school filthy death metal with all the subtlety… Continue Reading →

Temple Of Void – Summoning The Slayer (Relapse Records)

Quite clearly US doom-death ghouls Temple Of Void are hellbent on plunging you, the unfortunate listener, into a miasmic cauldron of scathing riffs, hideous atmospherics and a sound as abyssal as anything you’re likely to hear in this genre. The… Continue Reading →

Deathwhite – Grey Everlasting (Season of Mist)

Melodic doom/death from Pittsburgh. This is apparently their tenth year together, although they aren’t a band which until up until this point I had heard of. The accompanying blurb mentioned a few bands that would suggest that they would be… Continue Reading →

Sijjeel – Salvation Within Insanity (Comatose Music)

From Saudi Arabia they came to Germany with their brutal death metal. The band Sijjeel is almost 10 years old. This “force of bone-breaking intensity, wrapped in a cloak of nightmares” is their first full release to go with an… Continue Reading →

Angerpath – Forgotten World (Deformeathing)

Tempted to say that Forgotten World is an apt title here as this album is actually from 2007 and was remastered last year and the band is defunct. Now the question this always brings to my mind is…why re-release it?… Continue Reading →

Misanthropic Rage – Hallucinatory Phenomena (Godz ov War)

This band has been on my radar for quite some time. From Poland, avant-garde black metal is an apt description as each of their previous three albums have been differing and accordingly intriguingly epic balls of dark atmosphere. The opening… Continue Reading →

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