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Spider God – Ett främmande språk / A Foreign Tongue (Repose Records)

Culminating a musical gaze cast through the lens of Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy, the odd, eccentric and relatively obscure Spider God take his 1963 film The Silence as the narrative viewpoint here. We first joined this chronicle in the 2nd… Continue Reading →

Papangu – Holoceno (Repose Records)

Papangu’s debut album sounds in equal part interesting and daunting, if their introduction of it anything to go by: it is “a concept album inspired by ecological escatology and the modernist literature of Norheastern Brazil – a hardy, arid region… Continue Reading →

Svpremacist – Meaningless Death (Repose Records)

Israel’s Svpremacist typify how black metal felt and sounded over three decades ago, their primal proto black annihilation has that dangerous feel, rancid, putrid riffing, a raucous production and savaging vocals are all at the core of this act, whose… Continue Reading →

Spider God – Skugglösa Ljuset / Shadowless Light (Repose Records)

At the time of writing, I am not finding a huge amount of info about Spider God and this release*, indeed it is a web to be unravelled. This is UK based black metal and is described as raw and… Continue Reading →

Lykhaeon – Opprobrium (Repose Records)

Back once more into the secret underground bunker beneath snow-capped mountains that is the domain of the Helvetic Underground Committee. Here we have the ghastly Lykhaeon, a duo comprising of members of acts such as Dakhma, Ungfell & Arkhaaik among… Continue Reading →

Isgherurd Morth – Hellrduk (Repose Records)

Over the years, black metal has developed into something of a template. That being the case, the appeal of your black metal project depends a lot on whether you’re able to follow that template while simultaneously breaking it up and… Continue Reading →

Reign / Rulum -The Occvlt (Repose Records)

This is nice. Getting sent an actual (turquoise) cassette to review. A four song each split between two black metal one-man projects about whom I know nothing. Oh, and the neat, nicely designed insert also includes lyrics. So, hats off… Continue Reading →

Guignol Noir – Mantric Malediction (Repose Records)

Another impressive debut full-length album here by 2 shadowy entities lurking in pretty Basel Switzerland. No doubt Cheib (all instruments) and Schiach (vocals, lyrics) have discovered the ugly parts of their domain and committed their malcontent to musical form. Following… Continue Reading →

The Oracle – Hypogeum (Repose Records)

Unholy levitating black monks Batman, what on earth is this? Well it certainly looks rather splendid turning up here on 180g vinyl and I prepared for a lesson in grim one-man black metal but one should never judge anything by… Continue Reading →

Xasraug – Unsympathetic Empyrean (Repose Records)

Well, you should certainly recognise the artwork adorning the cover of this but what is that indecipherable band logo? Xasraug, right, ok. Now what about Indricothere the musician, surely not a hornless rhinoceros making all this noise? So, behind that… Continue Reading →

The Suns Journey Through The Night – Eternal Black Transmissions (Repose Records)

I expect we are going to hear plenty of isolationist black metal hermits decomposing music during “the great plague of 2020” and this is one of them. Eschewing the normal social media route and indeed not even having a presence… Continue Reading →

Moon and Azure Shadow – Age Of Darkness And Frost (Repose Records)

I was aware of US one man project of Sean Yoshioka, Moon And Azure Shadow before this landed but never got round to them. Here in Covid-19 isolation though, time is all I have and this beautiful A5 digipak arrived… Continue Reading →

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