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Sodom / M-16 anniversary edition is of quite spectacular proportions

October 2001 saw the release of German Thrash legends Sodom's M-16 album, which followed their tradition of politically committed and socio-critical inspired releases, especially 1989's Agent Orange and Code Red in 1999....

Servant / Balancing blackened brutality with subtle symphonics and melody perfectly

Blessed By The Light Of A Thousand Stars, the debut studio release from German Black Metallers Servant, is an album described as “a revelation between rawness and atmosphere.” An apt description. It...

Stillbirth / Strain Of Gods will leave you bruised and bleeding from every orifice

It's time to pull on those board shorts again because those German brutal surf-Death-Metal maniacs Stillbirth are back with another brutal concoction of Death Metal, Grindcore and Deathcore that will leave you...

Astrophobos / Corpus is an engagingly dark Black Metal “cross-disciplinary collaboration”

Swedish Black Metal Band Astrophobos are back with their third full-length studio album Corpus, which goes beyond the idea of just being an album. This time they have created a "cross-disciplinary collaboration...

Mentor / Wolves, Wraiths and Witches and the intersection between occultism and B-horror

Polish Blackened Hardcore Thrashers Mentor return with their third studio album, Wolves, Wraiths and Witches, which, they say, "is a continuation of the fast, hard and uncompromising style delivered on our 2016...

Sarke / Allsighr is an addictive and clever meld of contrasts

Pioneering Norwegian Extreme Metal outfit Sarke may have started out thirteen years ago as a solo project for Khold's drummer Sarke, out of a desire to release his own work, but it...

Zornheym / Anyone into Symphonic Black/Death Metal must listen to their new album

Swedish Black/Death Metal outfit Zornheym return with their latest dramatic musical and narrative-driven concept revolving around the horrors of a mental institution and its prisoners. Four years after their last exposé of...

Dødsdrift / Ødnis a quality Black Metal offering, thought-provoking and reflective

Just two years after their debut studio full-length Weltenszission, the anonymous Black Metal outfit Dødsdrift, who hails from the Baltic Coast of Germany, returns with its successor Ødnis. A ten-track forty-one-minute offering...

Hate / Rugia is a consistently flawless assault on the senses

Poland's Hate dropped their first full length, Daemon Qui Fecit Terram, back in '96, and since then, they have followed up on a regular basis with a series of brutally excellent releases,...

She Said Destroy / Succession is different, challenging but hugely a rewarding listen

I first crossed paths with She Said Destroy after releasing their superb 2006 full-length debut, Time Like Vines, which utterly blew me away the first time I heard it.She Said Destroy –...

Orobas / New EP is a tantalising taste to what Orobas are capable of

Formed back in 2015 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Blackened Death Metal outfit Orobas released their debut EP in 2016, the brutally excellent, Arise In Impurity, which, as a point of trivia, featured the...

Necromantia release a fitting epitaph for Baron Blood

Greek Black Metal legends, Necromantia were formed in late 1989 by The Magus (bass/vocals) and Baron Blood (8-string bass). Their aim was to create original, powerful and innovatively diabolical music, replacing the...

Cistvaen / Black Metal, magnificently powerful and emotion-stirring

"In the black, glacial winter of 2017, whilst the hoar frost turned the empty moors, a spectral alabaster, a lamentation, shattered the crystal silence from a cabin in the woods where five...

Profeci / Giving bigger Polish Black Metal bands a run for their money.

Just nineteen months after their debut studio full-length release Matecznik, Polish Black Metal outfit Profeci return with their follow up studio full length, Aporia, a seven-track, forty-minute offering with lyrics all in...

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