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Formed in 2006, Sweden’s satanic death horde Degial gained much praise for their debut album, 2012’s ‘Death’s Striking Wings’. Their reputation for quality has been further solidified with a few stints supporting Watain, as well as having one of the… Continue Reading →
My last visitation to the world of The Dead was their 2nd album from 2009 ‘Ritual Executions’ which I actually reviewed in the pre-Ave Noctum ‘Ye Olde Metal Team UK’ days, lapping up their twisted doomy take on death metal…. Continue Reading →
I don’t normally get my hands on the more brutal death metal releases but this one turned up just before Xmas, got a play and then got a few more, keeping my levels of anger in balance over the festive… Continue Reading →
Drowned has been gearing up to release its debut record for an awfully long time. Formed in Berlin way back in 1992, they have thus far released seven demos and one EP over a twenty-year period spanning from 1993-2013. In… Continue Reading →
With a moniker like that, you’d expect a Germanic entity to be behind ‘Baphomet Pan Shub-Niggurath’. Instead, Unaussprechlichten Kulten are a Chilean mob inspired by an H.P. Lovecraft story of the same name. As I have no familiarity with the… Continue Reading →
John McEntee and his band of not so merry men return once more to lay waste to your surroundings with another shadowy blast of occult death metal, filled to the brim with blasphemy and darkness. Although this is studio album… Continue Reading →
Whilst Vincent Crowley may have resigned from the Church of Satan, that should not be taken as a sign that he is any less committed or wavering in his beliefs, and he has continued to spread the word through the… Continue Reading →
It’s still surprising to me that this is Grave Miasma’s debut full length album, seeing as I (like many others) was completely imbued with the sickness of their two EPs which preceded this. Originally forming under the name Goat Molestör… Continue Reading →
In case you didn’t know, these Italians take their name from the ancient Egyptian temple complex near Luxor. Karnak have been in existence since 1997 so are not the straightforward Nile worshippers that you might innocently take them for. In… Continue Reading →
There must be literally millions of death metal bands in the world; many dwelling in total obscurity, and a tiny handful rising to the top to enjoy what I would tentatively call a `career’ in playing death metal. Immolation are… Continue Reading →
Cerekloth was a name that I’d seen banded about quite a bit a few years back. The Danes gained some good interest in their art, thanks in particular to their two EPs “Pandemonium Prayers” and “Halo of Syringes”. Other than… Continue Reading →
Forget the latest trends, forget superhuman, athletic instrumentation, forget technicality and sophistication; if the world does end on the 21st December as some people claim the Mayans predicted, I want to be listening to something like Abysme. The band themselves… Continue Reading →