Category: Review
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN turns back towards primal urges with “ᛉᛦ — Algir; eller Algir i Merkstave”
Trepaneringsritualen, for anyone who’s been following the darkest corners of the post-industrial underground over the last fifteen years or so, needs no introduction. Building up a reputation for their punishing live performances, pounding rhythms, heavy-as-fuck …
SEMPITERNAL DUSK submerges to the bottom of the abyss and returns with the accursed “Cenotaph Of Defectuous Creation”
The woeful prophets of the abyss, Sempiternal Dusk, emerge from their hellish seance with the other side, only to bestow their curse upon the world with Cenotaph Of Defectuous Creation, a vivid projection of supernaturally …
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER delivers an ode to the moon, black air, and burnt soil “Egregore”
Common Eider, King Eider present us with Egregore, a beautiful ritual ambient collaboration between Rob Fisk and Arexis, known for his work in Stille Volk, invoking spirits of nature in four parts. A new chapter …
WITCH VOMIT delivers a precision pounding of death metal pandaemonium on “Buried Deep In A Bottomless Grave”
The veil between the realms of the living and the dead appears to thin in the vicinity of Portland, Oregon. Whether it’s carnal aura seeps into the water of the maritime city, or takes to …
CEREBRAL ROT exhumes ancient graves and dives in head-first on “Odious Descent into Decay”
The True essence of death often lurks within more primitive forms, a cruel undying cancer, miasma evolves from the uncontrolled growth of simple cells. Instead of relying on innovating with new ideas, forgotten knowledge can …
LLYN Y CWN leads excursions into the depths of night to confront “Twll Du”
Llyn y Cwn is an up and coming dark ambient unit from Wales, heavily influenced by the countryside from which the project spawned. The name “Twll Du” is in fact the name of a gorge …
MYLINGAR sink deeper into realms of ferocity and fear on the trilogy concluding “Döda Själar”
Almost as soon as Miscarriage stopped dropping that pavement slab onto everyone’s heads, along come Mylingar with another torso dragged up from the bottom of the septic tank. A haunting, mysterious force from some ineffable …
LINGUA IGNOTA fuses the sacred & profane into a tragic statement of triumph with “Caligula”
Ask the average music listener to define “heavy”. Perhaps chugging riffs, breakneck speed, grotesque and offensive lyrics gurgled through a phlegm lined throat that seems to only despise and hate? Yes, that is heavy. To …
COVENANT FESTIVAL V RETROSPECTIVE: Congregation of Timeless Deathcraft
You see them. Your people. A few on the bus, all exit at the same stop, start the walk up the hill. Hoodies with patches adorned, the tell-tale scrawl hieroglyphics of black and death metal …
DRAB MAJESTY stares longingly into the abyss through the non-terrestrial “Modern Mirror”
Whatever extra dimensional fountain of inspiration that the electric duo of Deb Demure and Mona D are tapped into, it has yet to fail them, and only continues to raise them at a steep incline …