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Zetar – Devouring Darkness (2021)
Zetar is the brainchild of Texan musician R.G and their first album Devouring Darkness sees T.P and David Lamas complete the lineup on vocals and drums respectively. The band waste…
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Laetitia in Holocaust – I Fall with the Saints (2021)
Laetitia in Holocaust’s latest EP shows the Italian band further developing their craft of concise but adventurous songs. Defying the indulgence that characterizes many of the modern “technical” extreme metal…
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Kawir – Adrasteia (2019)
Hailing from Greece, Kawir create epic black metal inspired by their homeland’s vast mythological tradition. As expected from this type of enterprise and its presentation, the tone is solar and…
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Obtest – Tūkstantmetis (1997)
“This album is dedicated to one of the noblest Baltic (Haestian) nations - Prussians. They where the first to face messengers of the void bearing Slavs, and christian ticks bringing…
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Xandelyer – Upheaval Of Medieval Darkness (2021)
Xandelyer is a one man German Black metal with only a short thirteen minute demo comprising of two introductions and two songs. Though at first sight one would expect a…
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Psionic Madness – Mortality Salience (2021)
Psionic Madness is an underground supergroup featuring prolific musicians Jared Moran, Nicholas Turner and Justin Vølus. All three have collaborated with each other on multiple projects yet Mortality Salience is…
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Anubi – Kai pilnaties akis užmerks mirtis (1997)
Anubi comes from Lithuania, a small country in the Baltics. Though this black metal band is well-known amongst Lithuanian metalheads very few people know about them outside the country. This…
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Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult – Saldorian Spell (2009)
German Black metal stalwarts Darkened Nocturn Slaughtercult have built a consistent catalog that is mainly comprised of six full lengths. The core trio has shared the same vision for over…
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Ad Nauseam – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse (2021)
Gorguts set out to discard the most abused aesthetic tools in Death metal on their seminal record Obscura, instead of opening up divergent pathways for exploration, the band had established…
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Serpent Column – Katartisis (2021)
Serpent Column belongs to the milieu of bands fascinated by dissonance and technicality as means of evoking a chaotic and infernal realm with uncompromising accuracy, in line with acts like…