Category Archives: Album Reviews

            The fiendish masters of Singapore are back with another offering for 2022, and this time VRYKOLAKAS summons energies from a darkened past to wreak chaos through The Necromantic Revocation. This grimoire includes three hymns that were first witnessed on the demo of 1992, along with four others that are just now being unearthed, andContinue reading “Analysis | VRYKOLAKAS Delves into Crypts on The Necromantic Revocation“

            Death is one of life’s few certainties, with a fear of its approach being relatable for many of us, and this sentiment has become the artistic focus on a new trip from Japan’s masters of avant-garde extremity. While death is no stranger to the works of SIGH, age has led the chief songwriter, MiraiContinue reading “Analysis | SIGH Explores the Inevitable End on Shiki“

            This new opus from ACHERONTAS somehow eluded my awareness upon release, and since I didn’t get to review 2020’s Psychic Death – The Shattering of Perceptions, which was still included on my top album list for that year, it seems necessary to step back and gaze into its successor. These Greek adepts are reveredContinue reading “Review | ΑΧΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ Transfigures Enchantingly on Malocchio-The Seven Tongues of Δαημων”

            Possession has taken hold as the renowned Austrian lords cast a new act of devilish perversity, and its spirit marks a glorious return after the considerable five-year void since Totenritual. This delay was mostly attributed to the past Covid situation, which only gave rise to further experimentation, preparation, and repressed frustrations, and now theseContinue reading “Review | BELPHEGOR Exercises a Ritualistic Multitude on The Devils“

            Death is the destination we all inevitably face, and its unstoppable spirit has been renewed by Poland’s illustrious wizards of brutality and groove, who’ve risen like a phoenix from the ashes after these past few harrowing years. Since overcoming the circumstances related to falsely accused crimes, DECAPITATED have seized an effective release from thoseContinue reading “Review | DECAPITATED Returns Triumphant on Cancer Culture“

            Architecture is one of the few appreciable traits a church can possess, with their arched and lofty features often capturing a gothic splendor, and now an eminent order in the USA has gathered similar artistic forms within a blackened aural medium. After eleven years of relative silence, NEGATIVE PLANE returns to embody the imposingContinue reading “Review | NEGATIVE PLANE Constructs a Tempting Curse on The Pact…“

            The universe continues expanding past its point of inception, and now the illustrious space-grinding epitome of that initial bang has returned with an extension of their own relentless force. Stamina and dexterity, which are hallmarks of a style making ORIGIN synonymous with hyperextremity, have collided once more amidst probable and perfectly aligned conditions, andContinue reading “Review | ORIGIN Executes Lawless Precision on Chaosmos“

            A new portrayal of demise has been formulated in Poland, with an ominous and chaotic potency embodied by EMBARLA FIRGASTO, and its lone alchemist wields these forces to capitalize on the burden of 2018’s Inter Spem et Metum. This second encounter, which bears the title of Temporal Capsule, captures a dark myriad within itsContinue reading “Review | EMBARLA FIRGASTO Projects a Dismal Fate on Temporal Capsule”

            The dark arts have been naturally inspired by our recent pandemic, and here its effects are integrated with the perspective from one notorious mastermind, whose grimness has endured since the days of Les Légions Noires to curse these rotten times. After MÜTIILATION came to an unfortunate end, Meyhna’ch confirmed the death was only partialContinue reading “Review | MEYHNACH Reflects Malignant Depths on Miseria De Profundis”

            Portents have been fulfilled by an obscenity slithering from a wretched vulva, and its birth heralds the mighty return of RAVENOIR, who takes flight with the wingspan to cast tormenting shadows upon those of a so-called “righteous” path. Since igniting The Darkest Flame of Eternal Blasphemy last year, these Czechian heretics have abstained onlyContinue reading “Review | RAVENOIR Indulges Blackened Depths With-In the Womb of Sin”