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Occultation – Silence in the Ancestral House (Invictus )

Here’s a little lesson for you in the complex language that is English.  The verb “to occult” has nothing to do with magic, but instead means for a light to go from on to off and back again, the reverse… Continue Reading →

Emrevoid – Riverso (Drown Within)

This EP is the follow up to a self-titled album in 2011, but looking into it there’s a bit of history with these Italians, who seem to have forsaken their black metal roots and moved on to something more akin… Continue Reading →

Exodus – Blood In, Blood Out (Nuclear Blast)

The weak guitar sound fights its way through white noise for the first minute and a half of “Black 13”, but once it breaks out… the magic begins. I later read that the intro was created by Dan the Automator… Continue Reading →

Revocation – Deathless (Metal Blade)

The Boston, Massachusetts band Revocation have been around for a number of years now. I recall first seeing their name in a copy of Terrorizer – probably around the time they started – and being taken with their decidedly old… Continue Reading →

Nachtblut – Chimonas (Napalm)

I’ve been impressed with the sheer quality of music hitting this site throughout this year. And so perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me that one of the few genres I’ve only ever mustered a passing interest for can threaten to hurl… Continue Reading →

Sol Invictus – Once Upon A Time (Prophecy)

Once Upon A Time in the deep dark 70’s there was a guy called Tony Wakeford who embarked upon a quest to recount tales of old English eccentricity and legend. He has been doing so ever since and has released… Continue Reading →

Thornafire – Magnaa (FDA Rekotz)

This is album number four from Chilean death metal crew Thornafire, but the very first time I have had the opportunity to check them out. South American death metal usually gets the blood pumping through a bludgeoning non-stop ferocity, and… Continue Reading →

Blut Aus Nord – Memoria Vetusta III: Saturnian Poetry (Debemur Morti)

Is there no end to this man’s creativity? Seriously? By ‘this man’, I refer of course to enigmatic Frenchman known as ‘Vindsval’ who across the best part of two decades, has released album after album of mesmerizing, haunting and forward-thinking… Continue Reading →

Atrum Tempestas – Néant (Nordavind)

Spotting the line between atmospheric black metal and early-1990s shoe gaze is sometimes not an easy thing to do. Take Atrum Tempestas, for example, which comprises all the vital ingredients of both: taking the steady, depressive rhythms of the floppy… Continue Reading →

Fornicus – Storming Heaven (Negative Earth Records)

Something really odd has been going on and confusing me lately. It suddenly clicked what it was and it is the fact that two albums on my review pile, this and the new Necrophagia both start with a sample from… Continue Reading →

Whisper Of Death – Noise Of Obstinacy (S/R)

Unless you keep a close eye on the French death metal underground, chances are you haven’t heard of Whisper Of Death. This French five piece was formed in 2002 in a small village called Ablis, near Paris. This is their… Continue Reading →

Sparzanza – Circle (Black Cult)

18 years in the business, Sparzanza are a fine example of heavy and dark Swedish groove metal. Still going strong, the band recently released “Circle”, the band’s seventh full length recording and in their home country, it entered the charts… Continue Reading →

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