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Waidelotte – Celestial Shine (Debemur Morti)

Comprising members of White Ward, Soen, Naoni Orchestra and others, this Ukrainian band combines black metal with melodic death metal, progressive metal and traditional folk singing and instrumentation. The album is about an individual’s journey through darkness and disappointment towards… Continue Reading →

Albums Of The Year 2022

2022 has not been quite the full-on disaster movie of the last few years, aliens have not landed and the dead have not come back to inherit the earth. Whilst one has the feeling of impending doom and these are… Continue Reading →

White Ward – False Light (Debemur Morti)

Since forever the universe has been trying to teach us about the concept of interconnectedness, that what affects one person, one town, one region, one country, will sooner or later affect everybody else on the planet. Depending on your worldview,… Continue Reading →

Cailleach Calling – Dreams of Fragmentation (Debemur Morti)

With this album, Californians Cailleach Calling (along with Ukrainian drummer Yurii Kononov) “fuse trancelike Emperial bludgeon with dreamlike melodic ambience, countering vocals of tether-end savagery with emotive, ethereal intimations of deep space”, we’re told. The ambiance is distinctly black metal…. Continue Reading →

Pure Wrath – Hymn to the Woeful Hearts (Debemur Morti)

This is a very interesting band. An atmospheric black metal band from Indonesia, there is a Ukrainian element in the form of the drummer who was with the admirable White Ward, and some guitar elements. This band has been around… Continue Reading →

White Ward – Debemur Morti (Debemur Morti)

White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →

Ultha & White Ward – Zagreb, Mochvara, 14/10/2019

Although Monday is not a good day for a show, with the weekend just behind you and a whole week of getting up early before you, quite a few people decided that seeing White Ward and Ultha play at Zagreb’s… Continue Reading →

White Ward – Love Exchange Failure (Debemur Morti)

“White Ward perform intensely deviant music of a noir shade”, I read. From Odessa in Ukraine, they have been doing their post black metal thing since 2012, have released a couple of EP’s and are now releasing their second album…. Continue Reading →

White Ward – Futility Report (Debemur Morti)

Well fuck me (Er..don’t actually. Pretty sure neither of us would enjoy it…), a PR sheet that speaks the truth! ‘A metallic version of Ulver’s Perdition City.. ‘ Yep, that’s it. Or a melodic death metal version at least. Now… Continue Reading →

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