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New Skeletal Faces – Until The Night (Peaceville)

What do we have here? A death rock trio, named New Skeletal Faces, that sprung form fertile Californian soil, and that is being released on Peaceville Records, promising to fuse “the seductive and spellbinding gothic prowess of bands such as… Continue Reading →

Utgardar –Fire Smoked Upon the Wolf’s Back (ATMF)

If you are reading this, then you will have your own story surrounding a gateway or “Eureka” moment.  The time that something hit your ears and a switch in your brain was tripped like a the infected in 28 Days… Continue Reading →

Bafomet – Baptized In Goat Blood (Iron Fist Productions)

Satanic horns aloft it’s time for some unadulterated metalpunk from Japan. This trio comprising of Noctisadistum, Vladphemer and Branded Rebel have been active since 2015 and made a racket over a slew of demos, splits, live album a compilation and… Continue Reading →

Dimmu Borgir – Inspiratio Profanus (Nuclear Blast)

It’s been over half a decade since Dimmu Borgir have released an album and I’m not counting the release of a live recording from 25 years ago. and while I initially thought this would be a rerecording of all the… Continue Reading →

Nyrst – Völd (Dark Essence Records)

Going back almost 40 years, I was staying in a remote area of Iceland called Lake Mývatn and I saw a glow in the distance from my room. When I enquired about it, I was told there’d been a volcanic… Continue Reading →

Marthe – Further In Evil (Southern Lord)

An exciting debut record that appears to have come from nowhere. The last time I had something like this to review was Hulder’s debut and that ended up being my album of the year! Further in Evil could well end up hitting… Continue Reading →

Noitila – Langennut (Nordvis Produktion)

The term “raw black metal” tends to be used as a marketing tool, but not here. Noitila’s music is described as “an invocation of darkness, devil worship, death adulation and ancient Finnish folk magic”. What I found more interesting is… Continue Reading →

Diabolic Night – Beneath the Crimson Prophecy (High Roller)

Barking at the world, Diabolical Night return with a second full length release. This is a project by multi-instrumentalist “Heavy Steeler”, at some stage with a live band, these tunes will see the light of day on stage. For now,… Continue Reading →

Ifryt – Pluca (Godz Ov War)

A conundrum in three parts. When something is described as “Avant-Garde” alarm bells ring.  Are there going to be nose flutes and field recordings? Ancient Sumerian death rites mixed with Russian Drum and Bass. Ah who am I kidding I… Continue Reading →

Waxen – Die Macht Von Hassen (Moribund)

Toby Knapp could never be accused of lying idle. The American guitar maestro spreads his time across solo projects, Affliktor and his thrashy black metal project, Waxen just to mention a few. “Die Macht Von Hassen” is the sixth release… Continue Reading →

Nattehimmel – Mourningstar (Hammerheart records)

Well, this was a nice surprise. I was quite fond of “In the Woods”, and to my very great surprise, Nattehimmel features not only the Botteri brothers, but also James Fogarty on vocals. Even if you’ve not heard In The… Continue Reading →

Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant (Amor Fati Productions)

I volunteered to review this malevolent creature essentially on the basis that it featured none other than A.A.Nemthegea on vocals and bass, and I am a big fan of his output. I really had no idea what else the band… Continue Reading →

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