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FROM THE ABYSS: MORD’A’STIGMATA DELIVER A POIGNANTLY PROPHETIC RELEASE ‘SONGS FOR THE EXILES’

News March 25, 2020

Adding to their discography of five studio full lengths (as well as several demos, splits and compilations), Polish Avantgarde-Black Metal quartet Mord’A’Stigmata have now released a live album, 'Songs for the Exiles...

FROM THE ABYSS: ‘TAAKE AND ‘WHOREDOM RIFE’ MAKE A ‘PAKT’ WITH THEIR LATEST SPLIT RELEASE.

News March 23, 2020

Having toured and worked together for many years it makes perfect sense for the Norwegian Black Metal outfits ‘Taake’, masterminded by Hoest and duo ‘Whoredom Rife’ to do a split release. Aptly...

FROM THE ABYSS: SCARAB – MARTYRS OF THE STORM

News March 19, 2020

Egyptian Death Metal band Scarab named themselves after “the sacred creature associated with the sun god Raa. During mummification, the ancient Egyptians used to replace the heart of the dead with a...

FROM THE ABYSS: ‘OFFICIUM TRISTE’ RETURN WITH ‘THE DEATH OF GAIA’

News January 29, 2020

Dutch Death/Doom Metal legends ‘Officium Triste’, return with their sixth full length 'The Death of Gaia'. Once again it’s one of those albums you can completely immerse and lose yourself in; hugely...

FROM THE ABYSS: FROM DARKNESS DIZASTRA RIDE FORTH WITH THEIR DEBUT FULL LENGTH, ‘ELDER SUN’

News December 20, 2019

Canadian Black and Thrash quartet Dizastra unleashed upon the Metal masses their debut EP, 'Hells Gate', in late 2015, rapidly becoming "a rising force within the Quebec Heavy Metal scene", and now...

FROM THE ABYSS: GOLDEN CORE RETURN WITH THE STUNNING ‘FIMBULTÝR’

News November 21, 2019

Norway, over the last few decades, has produced some astounding musicians and two more to add to that impressive roll call are the Icelandic/Norwegian progressive Norse/doom/stoner Metal duo Golden Core who return...

AGANIZER CLIMB THE TOWER OF THE MORBID WITH THEIR LATEST CRUSHING RELEASE

News November 1, 2019

In these uncertain times it's always good to know there are some things you can trust and rely on and one of those is things is that any project involving Swedish Death...

QAYIN REGIS CAST UP THEIR DARK DOCTRINE

News October 31, 2019

It's a rare thing for a band to capture my attention and imagination in quite the way Spanish Black Metal entity Qayin Regis have, the trio's identities and everything related to them,...

TOTENGEFLÜSTER INVOKE ‘THE FACELESS DIVINE’

News October 23, 2019

Totengeflüster return with 'The Faceless Divine', the third studio full length from the German symphonic Black Metal quintet whose name, interestingly, means whispers of the dead in German, very apt when you...

NECRONOMICON RELEASE YET ANOTHER SINGULARLY EXCELLENT ALBUM, ‘UNUS’

News October 7, 2019

Canadian symphonic blackened Death Metal legends Necronomicon, fronted by Rob 'The Witch' Tremblay, return with their sixth full length, 'Unus', the pinnacle of their thirty year career and like its five predecessors...

FROM THE ABYSS: THE DROWNING BECKON YOU INTO THE RADIANT DARK

News October 5, 2019

Welsh death/doomsters The Drowning return with their fifth studio release, 'The Radiant Dark', their first with their new label, Transcending Obscurity Records, and what a label debut it is; an utterly crushing...

FROM THE ABYSS: MORTEM MAKE A LONG AWAITED RETURN WITH ‘RAVNSVART’

News September 25, 2019

........."Before Arcturus there was Mortem".............Mortem were originally formed by Marius Vold and Steinar Sverd Johnsen back in 1989, one of the first Black Metal bands to emerge onto the newly forming scene...

FROM THE ABYSS: VOICE OF RUIN TRAVERSE THE DARKNESS WITH ‘ACHERON’

News September 23, 2019

Swiss extreme Metal amalgamators Voice Of Ruin return with their third full length, 'Acheron', aptly named after one of the five rivers that ran through Hades in Greek mythology, sitting once again...

FROM THE ABYSS: STORTREGN BRING FORTH AN EVOCATION OF LIGHT

News September 16, 2019

It's rare I review re-releases but occasionally a rare jewel re-emerges and 'Evocation Of Light', originally released as a limited edition CD and cassette in 2013 by Swiss melodic Black/Death Metal outfit...

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