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Inferno Festival – Rockefeller, John Dee and Vaterland Oslo, Norway 6/4/23

While Easter is a time for religious worship for many, or perhaps overindulgence in chocolate, for the extreme metal community it means making the annual pilgrimage to Oslo for the unrivalled Inferno Festival, and this year was my tenth consecutive… Continue Reading →

Imperial Demonic – Beneath the Crimson Eclipse (Black Lion)

From Belfast and playing in the style of Swedish black metal, Imperial Demonic present their debut EP. You’d expect “The Furnace” to be fiery, and so it is. With riffage worthy of Dark Funeral and screams and horror to match,… Continue Reading →

Deviser – Evil Summons Evil (Hammerheart)

The label mentions Deviser as a band you might have “hidden gems among your collection” and indeed as with the recently reviewed …And Oceans there is one such jewel I remember with great fondness. That particular album was Running Sore,… Continue Reading →

Gra – Lycaon (Avantgarde Music)

Swedish Black Metal band Gra have returned after a five-year gap with ‘Lycaon’, their fourth studio album and their first collaboration with Italian label Avantgarde Music. As an interesting side note, it is also the first Gra album not to… Continue Reading →

Fogos – Corpses And Ashes (S/R)

This quartet only gathered under a cloak of second wave darkness a year ago and this is their debut album and indeed 1st release of any kind. With that in mind and no perfecting over demo material one may expect… Continue Reading →

Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse (Century Media)

I’ve spoken in the past about how I dislike the whole thought process of catchy is lame or false, it’s simply not the case. Music is there to be enjoyed and as pathetic as it sounds sometimes that means I… Continue Reading →

Mystic Circle – Mystic Circle (Atomic Fire)

It’s been 22 years since the original line-up of this legendary black metal band put out “Infernal Satanic Verses”. Four subsequent albums were released, with original member Graf von Beelzebub keeping the satanic flame burning, before the band stopped altogether… Continue Reading →

Zornheym – The Zornheim Sleep Experiment (Noble Demon)

Swedish black metal is well represented in the world of the dark arts, and it is further reinforced by the existence of Zornheym, the catalyst for the creation of Zornheym was the phoenix which rose in the form of Zorn… Continue Reading →

Hladomrak – Archaic Sacrifice (Non Serviam)

‘Cold Darkness’ and ‘Fall Division-Luciferianism’ from the Swedish underground here. Sounds sinister and it is. The unwieldly to pronounce Hladomrak have been in existence since 2011 and were started as a one-man outfit by Evgenerator who has kept them going… Continue Reading →

Night Crowned – Hadanfard (Noble Demon)

Verging on a black metal super group if you will, Night Crowned are made up of fragments of Aeon, Dark Funeral, Cipher System and Night Rage to echo but a few of the CV’s on show within their realms. Born… Continue Reading →

Serpents Oath – Nihil (Soulseller Records)

Nihilistic black metal and beating death: that seems to sum up the essence of this trio from Belgium. A suitably spooky and sinister atmosphere sets us on our way before the anticipated explosion and fire. The mastering is done by… Continue Reading →

Hegerøth – Perfidia (S/R)

It’s handy to know that Hegerøth take their inspiration from bands such as Dark Funeral, Emperor, Naglfar and Old Man’s Child, but having been fortunate enough to hear the Polish band’s two previous albums and their EP going back to… Continue Reading →

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