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Serpent Warning are from Finland and have a classic doom approach to their sound laden in the sultry laid back moments of the 70’s. Whilst staying well clear of the retro/occult rock movement of late, you will be more at… Continue Reading →
There are some albums you dread getting to review because the previous album by the band was that rarity ‘a classic’, one just so good, so affecting, that after however many years it still gives you chills listening to it…. Continue Reading →
I first found myself infected by Bitter Peace on a four band split called ‘New World Black Metal’ highlighting some of the nastiest scourges of the USBM scene. Their coruscating and hateful take on the style had a notable industrialised… Continue Reading →
If you like your black metal to be pure as pure can be, in all its lo-fi glory then Ildjarn and his vocal companion Nidhogg should be a project that you have explored in your formative years. Formed back in… Continue Reading →
With a lively crash of thunder this Polish Culte flings open the crypt doors once again, makes a racket for an hour and creeps back home just as the sun begins to rise. This is dramatic horror fuelled black metal… Continue Reading →
It’s always nice to get post from Russia even if in this case the package needed serious de-thawing in a warm cupboard overnight before I could get under the ice and frost and open it. This time there were two… Continue Reading →
Five years since their inception, and three years since the release of their EP, Italian black metal outfit Veneror have at last put out their first full length album. The artwork is stunning and the lyrics, revolving around black magic,… Continue Reading →
This Finnish band have been around since 2004 and released a self titled album around that time as well as to date quite a lot of EP’s and splits with the likes of Funerary Bell, Verge, and Cosmic Church. I… Continue Reading →
Although I am of the somewhat contentious opinion that all covers bands should be shot, the odd cover song by an original band can be more than welcome and tribute albums like this can be very good if treated with… Continue Reading →
Described as “Freezing Cosmic Black Metal”, this work from Hungary’s Nefarious marches on relentlessly from beginning to end. There’s a grim war going on out there. Hungary does not have a border with Poland and has no obvious cultural links… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a skeletal, flaming daemon from the D&D universe, New Jersey’s Immolith specialise in a hybrid of the old Norwegian and Swedish styles of BM, the songs forever tumbling into the abyss as they are dragged along… Continue Reading →