Often when spending a couple of hours listening quickly through incoming promos, most just flow by without latching on, though once in a while some music just hits the right spot right away. Earlier this year I was listening to the new EP “Plague Hymns” from the American duo SARCOPTES, an EP that stuck right […]
Black Metal
IMPALED NAZARENE
Back in 2003 the legendary Finnish squadron of madmen IMPALED NAZARENE released their 8th full length album “All That You Fear” on Osmose Produtions. I was lined up for a chat with co-founder and vocalist Mika “Slutti666” Luttinen, though it was bassist Arc V 666, who joined the band in 2000, that ended up yelling […]
HORNED ALMIGHTY “To Fathom The Master’s Grand Design”
HORNED ALMIGHTY “To Fathom The Master’s Grand Design” [Scarlet Records 2020] Denmark’s Black Metal bangers HORNED ALMIGTHY released their 6th full length album “To Fathom The Master’s Grand Design” earlier this year. I am an old nostalgic geezer, that hold debut albums dear, so I will always, so far at least, pick the band’s debut […]
PERDITION TEMPLE – “Sacraments Of Descension”
PERDITION TEMPLE – “Sacraments Of Descension” [Hells Headbangers Records 2020] Explosive and pounding blasting Death Metal with a great touch of darkness and unlevelled intensity, Palubicki and his cohorts are back, showing teeth and rancid aggression. This new album is the incantation of speed and evilness put on record. This is good Death Metal anno […]
GRAVEWÃœRM “Funeral Rites”
GRAVEWÃœRM “Funeral Rites” [Funeral Empire Records] Good old GRAVEWÃœRM is back, with a vengeance once again, a fistful of Thrashing Black/Death Metal, as we’ve been used to since 1992. “Funeral Rites” is the 16th full length album, if I haven’t counted wrong, since the first full length attack and killer album “Ancient Storms Of War” […]