Revenge – Scum. Collapse. Eradication

Out of the ashes of Conqueror came Revenge at the turn of the century, and each subsequent release has been some of the most bellicose and savage blackdeath with a raw and devastating feel totally unique to the band. War-obsessed and completely misanthropic in nature, the band is now solely spearheaded by J. Read with Vermin of [...]

ROSS BAY CULT DOUBLE FEATURE

We recently received a double-whammy from Canada’s Ross Bay Cult scene, showcasing some of the most extreme blackdeath bands from British Columbia and also across the pond. For the uninitiated, this long-running horde of maniacs are purveyors of only the darkest, utterly bestial, and most brutal assaults known to man. For the initiated, these two releases will do nothing [...]

Roto Visage – La Coquille et le Clergyman

Commissioned by Transflux films, Roto Visage has endeavored to create a new score for classic French surrealist/expressionist/nihilist film “La Coquille et le Clergyman” (The Seashell and the Clergyman), based upon the writing of troubled playwright Antonin Artaud (who was a huge influence on Roger Watkins, director of “Last House on Dead End Street”, who was a [...]

Kult ov Azazel

12 QUESTIONS FOR XAPHAN OF KULT OV AZAZEL
Kult ov Azazel is a long-running, much respected American underground act. I have been extremely fond of their malevolent, crushing brand of blackdeath since their inception, and can happily say that they’re still going strong and show no signs of slowing down. Frontman Xaphan blessed me with the [...]

Gnaw Their Tongues – Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus

“Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus” That’s Latin for “With blood and whip, we worship the dark”. Of course, I have to wholeheartedly concur. Gnaw Their Tongues is a classic Italian horror film and Sade novel come to life and the audial equivalent to hell’s beckoning scraping at your ears. Lovingly doling out pain through sheer dissonance [...]

Absu – Abzu

Absu have been at it a long time. The Texas Rangers have split up and reformed (with main man Proscriptor the sole constant member since their inception) changed sounds from dark death metal to thrashy black metal with vocals similar to old Destruction to now a concoction that seems to defy pigeonholing anymore. Always grand [...]

Archgoat – Heavenly Vulva (Christ’s Last Rites)

Things are pretty business as usual in Archgoatland. Ever since their split with Beherit many moons ago, they’ve been quite the talk of the town. A good many years passed between that legendary split (of which their half was released solo a few years prior, anyway) before 2004’s “Angelslaying Black Fucking Metal” 7″ was unleashed, [...]

Goreaphobia

12 QUESTIONS FOR CHRIS GAMBLE OF GOREAPHOBIA
Chris Gamble (also known as “Mezzadurus” in some circles) has been going at the metal game for many years now. He writes and plays with a passion only so few can truly harness and his occult sciences knowledge is most likely second to none. I had the pleasure of [...]

Spearhead – Theomachia

First off, let’s just get one thing straight; this is NOT that joke of a band consisting of a bunch of “multicultural” overglorified neo-hippies gathered together and making every single nerve they happen to twitch into some sort of laughable socio-political “message” that has been assailing the airwaves left-and-right lately (not that I bother letting [...]

Marduk – Iron Dawn

Having been one of the underground’s most revered acts for many moons
now, Marduk has proven time and time again that their capacity to
annihilate is never to be doubted. Though the sound has shifted a
great deal over the course of two decades (myself actually preferring
their more death metal-leaning earlier material), the main premise has
never changed and [...]

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