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Mourning Dawn – The Foam Of Despair (Aesthetic Death)

With over two decades of misery behind them there are no expectations that Parisians Mourning Dawn will have found their happy place on album number six. They may have found some euphoria on the last one several years ago but… Continue Reading →

Praise the Plague – Suffocating in The Current of Time (Lifeforce)

Before we get started, I’d just like to take a moment to appreciate what an absolute belter of an album title we have here. All of the age-old stereotypes (that are generally unfair, but also not necessarily inaccurate) about how… Continue Reading →

Mortuary Drape – Black Mirror (Peaceville)

We are slightly late to this particular funeral. Mind you the same could be said for the cult Italian act who have been relatively quiet as far as new studio material has been concerned after last album ‘Spiritual Independence’ in… Continue Reading →

A Thousand Sufferings – Stilte (Immortal Frost Productions)

Ah more sweet suffering and this time it is from Belgium and a band who are not the easiest to sum up. Basically, on the strength of third album Stilte they like starting things off slowly, drawing the listener in… Continue Reading →

Ichor – The Black Raven (Séance Records)

Some blood, a corvid, a hint of Bathory and Poe, some fire and blackened doom from this Australian band made up of past and present members of Nazxul, Nox Inferi, Nocturnes Mist and Pestilential Shadows. Following up 2018 album ‘God… Continue Reading →

Moon Reaper – Descent (S/R)

Something nasty is stirring in the West. Bristolians Moon Reaper have been mixing up the medicine to create a murky blend of dark sludge and progginess and the E.P. Descent is the fetid result. Dirty, heavy riffs from the get go, these 5 tracks are… Continue Reading →

Praise The Plague – The Obsidian Gate (Lifeforce Records)

Ah another day when your very ‘eavy, very ‘umble scribe turns round to find everyone else has walked forward while I’ve walked sideways. Hmm. This six tracker from relatively new but productive Berlin band Praise The Plague is sent PR… Continue Reading →

Acârash – Descend to Purity (Dark Essence Records)

By pure coincidence, on the day I was given this album for review, I was wearing an Acârash shirt so it’s fair to say that I had been impressed by their debut album and a storming previous live encounter. So,… Continue Reading →

Live Suffer Die – A Voice From Beyond Death (Moribund)

There’s no way of sugar-coating band names and song title in these dangerous times. It’s the nature of the beast and all we can really do is look upon things with a sense of gallows humour. Live Suffer Die were… Continue Reading →

Culted – Vespertina Synaxis: A Prayer for Union & Emptiness (Season Of Mist)

Apparently, the four band members of Culted, though they’ve been a band for about ten years now, have never been in a room together. Three of the band members are at home in the Canadian prairies, while one of them… Continue Reading →

Nortt – Endelight (Avantgarde Music)

It seems that this year there has been no shortage of kvlt edge-lords thinking it is clever releasing albums over the festering period. It’s not like most of them will find their way into the few remaining record shops around… Continue Reading →

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