DunkelNacht / Final EP Sombre Nuit is a marker for new beginnings
Icare / Charogne a brutally romantic tribute to nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire
Stratuz / Venezuelan Doom Metal veterans return with Osculum Pacis
I Am The Night release an absolute must-listen for all Black Metal fans
Album Of The Week / Static Abyss – a masterclass in flesh searing Death/Doom
Speckmann Project / Resurrected with old school, filthy Death Metal of Fiends Of Emptiness
Matricide / Walk Into The Flames is Groove Metal done well
Nonsun / Blood And Spirit is a slightly unnerving and powerfully compelling listen
Blood Torrent / Innovative, unique and varied on Void Universe
Agathodaimon / “It was awesome,” Sathonys says of working again with Vlad Dracul
Kvaen / The Great Below magnificently treads a well-worn path
Defechate / Unbounded both brutal and uniquely free thinking
Falamh / Aeons Effigy, “the journey and discovery of oneself”
Agathodaimon make a welcome return with The Seven
Idol Of Fear hold that wonderful air of unnerving strangeness
Los Suffers secure place in Brazilian underground Metal scene
Warfist / Teufels is hugely impactful Black and Thrash Metal
Midnight / You need Let There Be Witchery in your life as it’s utter genius