Unholy Hell! I have never expected that In Aphelion’s “Moribund” was such sheer pleasure to listen to! It is almost impossible not to bang your head or use one of your limbs to tap...
Having read quite a few positive reviews about their previous full length album, called “Domstad Swart Metael,” I managed to completely miss this album. Shame on me because what these three lads from...
Sometimes when there’s not much exciting things going on in terms of releases I have a look through every metalhead’s favourite site – Metal Archives – and click on a few bands with alluring-sounding...
The last few decades Watain has managed to gather quite a following. With albums “Casus Luciferi”, “Lawless Darkness” and “Trident Wolf Eclipse” they manage to display pure blackness in excellent form. After four years...
If there should be a contest of which album cover is the most butt ugly: Abbath’s newest spawn “Dread Reaver” would surely be the winner of 2022. Luckily, I won’t only judge his third...
Together with Marduk, Dissection and a few other genre-breaking bands, Dark Funeral put Sweden on the black metal map in the beginning of the nineties. Their debut EP “Dark Funeral” and first full length...
If you have read my one and only live review of 2021 you might have noticed that I have already been acquainted with Celeste. And during a performance on the Soulcrusher festival I just...
Looking at the name of this band you might think that Kluizenaer (Hermit) comes from the Netherlands. Nothing is further from the truth since they come from Potsdam/Brandenburg, which is in fact Germany. With...
If you have read my year list you have seen undoubtedly that Helleruin has made an entrance with its hellish’ “War upon Man”. In January they have collaborated with De Gevreesde Ziekte which has...
In the last few weeks of 2021 I ordered a few albums from New Era Productions which has an excellent E-shop selling known and lesser known Black Metal releases. But besides this, New Era...