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Bloodbound – Creatures Of The Dark Realm (AFM)

After seemingly battling dragons non-stop for last four years, I’m afraid the shit’s really hit the fan(tasy) in Bloodbound’s world! No sooner have they banished those pesky fire-breathing miscreants than suddenly there’s a new set of creatures to deal with… Continue Reading →

Yautja – The Lurch (Relapse Records)

My first experience of the Nashville, Tennessee, noise mercenaries Yautja came at the tail end of 2019, back when it was relatively easy to travel, before the world turned into the stinking mess it is now.  I found myself in… Continue Reading →

Hanging Garden – Skeleton Lake (Lifeforce Records)

It’s been 4 years since I reviewed ‘I Am Become’ and Hanging Garden released ‘Into That Good Night’ in the intervening years, where vocalist Riikka Hatakka became a permanent member. This is also the seventh album for the Finnish septet… Continue Reading →

Dumbsaint – Something You Will Feel Will Find Its Own Form (Bird’s Robe)

Dumbsaint is a band whose music is accompanied by film. Having just this album to listen to I didn’t get the benefit of that. But you can get five videos as a download with this hour-long instrumental post rock work…. Continue Reading →

Heathen Deity – True English Black Metal (Cult Never Dies)

I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Four, five years since I first experience their battering ram sound live at Warhorns. Others have been waiting longer, since 1998 in fact. But this is finally it after all that has… Continue Reading →

Slithering Decay – Aeons Untold (Testimony Records)

This Belgian band’s moniker pretty much sums up the sonic output of these ten grisly tracks on their debut. Their old school filth riddled approach is a voracious submersion into a world of gruesome riffing amidst their veritable onslaught on… Continue Reading →

Mushroom Giant – Painted Mantra (Bird’s Robe Records)

As I’ve typed for the benefit of visitors to this site before, if you are only interested in the most “brootal” of screamed metal vomited into a microphone by somebody with a face painted like a badger, click away right… Continue Reading →

Mish – Entheogen (Bird’s Robe Records)

I missed the initial release of this album in 2017 so as far as I’m concerned this is a new experience. Mish are from Australia and as a progressive metal band have shared the stage with sleepmakeswaves and We Lost… Continue Reading →

Desolat – Songs Of Love In The Age Of Anarchy (Bloodshed666 Records)

A release appeared in October 2020 and followed this Austrian band’s debut ‘Shareholder Of Shit’ released in February of 2020 both of which were pressed onto picture discs. The band defies categorisation on the five tracks here, something that was… Continue Reading →

Templar / Barbatos – Split (Left Hand Patches / Quiet Notes)

Blachthrashingdrunkenmetalpunx rejoice. Here we have a split 7” vinyl release (although sent to us on a burnt CD) of two very kvlt outfits. Both have two tracks on respective sides of the record and although it is short weighing in… Continue Reading →

Grave Miasma – Abyss of Wrathful Deities (Dark Descent)

In the years that followed the release of Incantation’s ‘Primordial Domination’ there was an explosion of bands trying to replicate that murky, cavernous strain of death metal. Of the small cluster that popped up, only three surged in popularity and… Continue Reading →

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