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TURIA – DEDE KONDRE LP (Altare Productions)
With its jangling, uplifting, almost triumphant tones complemented by pained shrieks and forlorn lamentations, Turia’s second full-length, ‘Dede Kondre’, is every bit as captivating and refreshing as...
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CHHINNAMASTA VAJRA-SARPA MLP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
Chhinnamasta’s debut release, the one-sided MLP, “Vajra-Sarpa”, is quite a short shock – featuring just over 20 minutes of raw-ish / ambient Black Metal … from India of all places. There’s really just...
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REBIRTH OF NEFAST – TABERNACULUM 2LP (Norma Evangelium Diaboli)
Rebirth Of Nefast’s sprawling debut full-length, ‘Tabernaculum’, is an intricate, complex, ambitious and utterly stunning work of art painstakingly woven into a pitch black tapestry by an individual...
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WULKANAZ – PARALYS LP (Helter Skelter)
Wulkanaz is one of those artists I can’t get enough of, so ‘Paralys’ was inevitably going to find a place in the devil’s collection. The third full length is a fairly natural and organic progression...
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LIBER NULL – I, THE SERPENT LP (Osmose Productions)
Even though it is, to all intents and purposes, shamelessly derivative and at times comes across like a poor man’s Funeral Mist / Marduk, I have to confess to really enjoying Liber Null’s debut...
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RHINOCERVS – RH-07 MLP (Final Agony Records)
This is the third of the much-coveted and hyped Rhinocervs tapes to get the vinyl treatment and I am pretty sure there are more to come. Unleashed at the start of the year, it is limited to a mere 333...
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ORDER OF DARKNESS – VREJ LP (Altare Productions)
Raw Black Metal has never been in ruder health and, with ‘Vrej’, the dying-earth-scouring Altare Productions has come up with another diseased gem. Order of Darkness is conceived into reality by one...
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PREDATORY LIGHT – PREDATORY LIGHT LP (Invictus Productions / Psychic Violence...
I was pretty sure I already reviewed Predatory Light’s split with Vorde but, seeing as I can’t find any trace of such a scribbling, I will have to reluctantly concede that I didn’t. This is about the...
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BESTIAL RAIDS – MASTER SATAN’S WITCHERY LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Raucous, pummeling and heavier than a hippo’s balls, Bestial Raids are all about unsophisticated, puerile, subtle-as-a-sledgehammer, bestial, warmongering Black / Death in the vein of fellow purveyors...
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TROLLDOM – AV GUDABLOD RÖD… LP (Nordisk Kultur)
This one is from the enigmatic Ancient Records stable although, for some reason, it’s credited as an independent release rather than being attributed to either of the cult Ancient Records /...
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NIGHTBRINGER – TERRA DAMNATA 2LP (Season of Mist Underground Activists)
Nightbringer – an act I have been championing for years – delivers 52 minutes of mystical, occult-ridden, complex, chaotic Black Metal on fifth full-length, ‘Terra Damnata’, but this time I’m finding...
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WHOREDOM RIFE – WHOREDOM RIFE MLP (Terratur Possessions)
Whoredom Rife is the latest Black Metal buzzband coming out of the legendary Trondheim underground and they have found a fitting home on Terratur. The self-titled debut mini-album comprises four...
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AZELISASSATH – TOTAL DESECRATION OF EXISTENCE LP (Nordisk Kultur)
Azelisassath’s third full-length, ‘Total Desecration Of Existence’, is more depressive content-wise than I recall the first two offerings (‘In Total Contempt of All Life’ and ‘Evil Manifestations...
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HARVEST GULGALTHA – ALTARS OF DEVOTION LP (Nuclear War Now!)
Listening to ‘Altars Of Devotion’, it sounds almost like Harvest Gulgaltha are in my living room hammering out the tracks and tearing paint from the wall, warping the fireplace, trembling the...
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NECROBLOOD – COLLAPSE OF THE HUMAN RACE LP (Iron Bonehead Productions)
If you pitched Diocletian, Revenge, Antaeus, Archgoat, ZOM and Portal into a super-Satanic blender and pulverised the contents together to create a novel yet strangely familiar monster, then you might...
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ARCKANUM – DEN FÖRSTFÖDDE LP (Folter Records)
Arckanum is dead. After delivering truly unique, visionary, chaos-gnostic Black Metal of the very highest calibre over a mere quarter of a century, Shamaatae has announced that ninth full-length, ‘Den...
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BLATTARIA – BLATTARIA LP (Fallen Empire Records)
Blattaria is the scientific name for cockroach and a routine perusal of the lyrics included on the insert of this delightful LP quickly reveals the appropriate nature of both band name and album title....
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DEIQUISITOR – DOWNFALL OF THE APOSTATES LP (Night Shroud Records)
Boasting ties with Blodfest and Ogdru Jahad – two acts I passed comment on in what seems like a previous lifetime – dastardly Danes Deiquisitor churn out nine choice slabs of thought-provoking,...
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HORNA – ENVAATNAGS EFLOS SOLF ESGANTAAVNE 2LP (Blut & Eisen Productions)
Horna’s 2004 full-length, ‘Envaatnags Eflos Solf Esgantaavne’, truly epitomises everything that’s so exceptional about these Finnish stalwarts, encapsulating the bleak horde’s uncanny knack for...
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AOSOTH – V: THE INSIDE SCRIPTURES LP (Agonia Records)
Aosoth’s fifth and final strike is a monstrous slab of murky Black Metal disdainfully forced through a decidedly Death Metal funnel – or dare I say portal? – to create an uncompromising boot to the...
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