HIMUKALT transgresses into depravity to reveal traumatic truths
The future is now. We are living in the epoch that past generations and science fiction authors have speculated on with hope and wonder, only ours is lacking the gloss of sentimentality and narrative structure. …
AZOTHYST opens sanguine oblivion upon revealing “Blood of Dead God”
For years a hushed pact of ill intent has been brooding in the Canadian underground, a conspiracy aimed at the mind and soul of any who would fancy themselves fanatics of the extreme. This entity …
ANTEDILUVIAN elevate & defile through “The Divine Punishment”
Sex and violence — Two foundational aspects of human nature that are as inseparable to us as the flesh we wear. No matter how we might ascend to higher planes of civility, the seeds remain, …
ELIJAH TAMU reveals his rare & unique methodology of worship – Part 2
In an additional twist, we revealed the first part of Elijah Tamu’s massive interview on Walpurgisnacht earlier this year. The artist was kind enough indulge us with a multiple page correspondence that revealed much of …
LEOPARD MOTH summons forth breathtaking nightmares of the flesh
If ever we needed to argue the flawed and often deeply erroneous nature of our own species, apart from any religious or metaphysical pretext, a telling avenue of discussion is our own relationships with the …
ELIJAH TAMU delivers a sermon enlightening his antithetical Orthodox art – Part 1
The notion of contrast is a foundational element to all that is substantial. The negative space begets the bodies alive within it, and the darkness of void only makes the light held inside shine that …
SPELL channels the mysteries of the heart & dreamscape
As much as we think we know of the inner machinations of existence, the greater truths yet elude us, and we can only grasp and wonder at what logic, if any, directs those strange and …
BLOOD INCANTATION create a monolith to outlast time as we know it with “Hidden History Of The Human Race”
The proximity and motion of cosmic forces can be sensed in the works of human artists. The lesser brain functions of a slave species picking up wayward traces of unfathomable happenings taking place behind our …
HISSING disavows catharsis to embrace suffering
Modern death metal has gone through yet another resurgence of heightened invigoration in the last few years, with a particular concentration of perpetuating and reimagining ‘old school’ elements, and to magnificent effect. When death metal …
TEITANBLOOD signals absolute Armageddon with “The Baneful Choir”
A society is reflected in the artistry it yields, and thereby we are sometimes able to see its face more clearly than any government or social movement could ever encapsulate. Like a mirror into the …