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Thecodontion and Vessel of Iniquity – The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event (I,Voidhanger)

Whilst there is no shortage of concept albums around right now dealing with the extinction of mankind due to viral and ecological effects this split EP sees two bands joining together and going right back in time to approximately 251.9… Continue Reading →

TRNA – Istok (Candlelight)

Istok is a place “of great nothingness where you find peace”, while the album is the journey to get there. This is the Russian trio’s fourth album release. Dreamy “celestial blackgaze”, post black-metal …. whatever the description may be, it’s… Continue Reading →

Hellcrash – Krvcifix Invertor (Dying Victims Productions)

This is a debut release from SpeedSlayerVenom worshipping Hellcrash from Italy. Originally this came out on another label in February, Dying Victims bring you the vinyl and digital assault. Of course, evil is everywhere, its natural based on the name,… Continue Reading →

Beyond Grace – Our Kingdom Undone (Prosthetic)

The UK Death Metal scene has always been there, I mean we have Napalm Death and Carcass for starters, but in more recent years things have been amping up. Celestial Sanctuary, Party Cannon, Vision Of Disfigurement, Colpocleisis, Crepitation and so… Continue Reading →

Antediluvian – The Divine Punishment (Nuclear War Now! Productions)

Relocated to Austria, Canadian act Antediluvian have a fairly extensive discography with a raft of splits and EPs, but previously only two other full lengths as they land a sonic scourge on the Earth with their third album. If you… Continue Reading →

Regen Graves – Climax (Pariah Child / Yoshiwara Collective)

I really enjoyed last album ‘Herbslicht’ by Italian maestro Regen Graves. If his name is familiar to you this is probably due to recordings in the stratosphere of doom with the likes of Tony Tears and Abysmal Grief. When working… Continue Reading →

Nunslaughter – Red is the Color of Ripping Death (Hells Headbangers)

I have to admit something here, and it doesn’t do my already tenuous ‘metal’ credibility any good, that for a band that have been around since the mid to late 80’s, Nunslaughter are a band I have never…. ever heard… Continue Reading →

Hour of 13 – Black Magick Rites (Shadow Kingdom Records)

In the world of underground music that Ave Noctum makes its lair, there are any number of one-man bands, frequently in the niche corners of black metal, living in the basements of their parents whilst screaming evilly into a microphone… Continue Reading →

Qrixkuor – Poison Palinopsia (Invictus Productions)

Watch out, there’s an unspeakable multidimensional being about, as blackened metal occultists Qrixkuor press the ‘downward spiral’ button on the controls and into the gnostic depths of hopeless but glorious terror in this first full length. After a couple of… Continue Reading →

Transport League – Kaiserschnitt (Mighty Music)

Swedish groove outfit Transport League are back in action once again after the madness of the pandemic has subsided to a degree and it looks like they are trying to get their momentum back to where it was before everything… Continue Reading →

Thyrfing – Vanagandr (Despotz Records)

Anyone that dismisses Viking metal as risible has obviously never heard Thyrfing. Heavy as granite and as animated as an English monastery the day the dragon ships arrive on the nearby shore, these Swedes combine some very recognisable pagan metal… Continue Reading →

Windfaerer – Breaths Of Elder Dawns (Avantgarde)

Among other things this US based quintet’s 4th album looks at the ever-increasing possibility of our planet’s destruction along with “shattered illusions and longing for the numbing comfort of death.” Yay happy music time. Seriously though it’s not worth getting… Continue Reading →

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