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Utgardar –Fire Smoked Upon the Wolf’s Back (ATMF)

If you are reading this, then you will have your own story surrounding a gateway or “Eureka” moment.  The time that something hit your ears and a switch in your brain was tripped like a the infected in 28 Days… Continue Reading →

Solbrud – IIII (Vendetta Records)

Danish quartet Solbrud are not the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. However, IIII certainly sounds like it was composed as a soundtrack to it. A conspicuous number for the band, four is omnipresent in this release: four members, four vinyl… Continue Reading →

Damnation’s Hammer – Into The Silent Nebula (Massacre)

No denying I jumped on this when it came in. Been six years since the last Damnation’s Hammer album ‘Unseen Planets, Deadly Spheres’ and also that long since I last caught them live. So hopefully this album will help them… Continue Reading →

Sznur – Ludzina (Godz ov War)

This is the fourth full length for Sznur (meaning “Rope” in Polish). I have followed this black metal war machine from the start, and this album sets another standard for the misanthropic horde. There is a much more refined production,… Continue Reading →

Plague God – New Veins for Old Blood (Fallen Temple)

Let’s not beat about the bush here. When your album title sounds this much it should already be a Darkthrone album, it’s safe to say you’re wearing your influences on your suitably grim sleeve. To delve further into the known… Continue Reading →

Sacrenoir – Comme les Revenants Parmi les Ruines (Sepulchral Productions)

Two stalwarts of the French-Canadian black metal scene comprise Sacrenoir. Amongst many other bands, one plays with Forteresse while the other has appeared for them. “Les revenants” means “people who return” and these people returning among the ruins is, I’m… Continue Reading →

Tsjuder – Helvegr (Season Of Mist)

A lot of the bands I listen to (and thus review) revel in making music that is best described using formulae such as “Band A + Band B x Genre X = ???” because, well, I like my crossover shit…. Continue Reading →

Altari – Kröflueldar (Svart Records)

It’s not every day you come across a black metal band quite like Altari – or even just a band for that matter. Presented as a straight black metal outfit, there’s a lot more to this album, not least a… Continue Reading →

Grieve – Wolves Of The Northern Moon (Werewolf Records)

It looks like the nails I hammered into the coffin of this Finnish band’s first and supposedly only full length were premature as the duo of V-Khaoz and Werwolf of Vargrav and Satanic Warmaster respectively, to name just one notable… Continue Reading →

Enslaved – Heimdal (Nuclear Blast)

May 1993. Two young upstart Norwegian black metal bands share the limelight on a split release from Candlelight Records. Both subsequently follow very different musical ideologies and career paths, but grow to be equally influential and universally revered. Jumping forward… Continue Reading →

Mordhell – Satanic Wombs (Fallen Temple)

Since 2003 a sickening plague has been sweeping across Europe, a plague hailing from Poznan in Poland. And that pestilential entity is heathen Black Metal horde Mordhell, who towards the end of last year shat out their fourth full length… Continue Reading →

Various Artists – Dark Side Of The Sacred Star (Peaceville)

Before the Internet, label samplers used to be part of the life’s blood when it came to discovering new artists and music. Some of them introduced us to a roster of bands that clicked and has had us following things… Continue Reading →

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