“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
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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
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
Invictus Productions Feature
I’m venturing into familiar territory here, particularly because each band had an album out not too long ago and here they both are again with a new album at damn near the same time. The reason the two albums are piggybacking each other in this review is because there is rampant speculation both are one
Black Witchery – Inferno of Sacred Destruction
It’s getting pretty routine by now. A damn good routine. Ever since exploding on the scene with a demo and 7 inch, Black Witchery became known as yet another band that pays maybe a little too much homage to the mishmashed black/death/grind sound made popular by Blasphemy and mastered only by so few, including these
Roto Visage – Where the Mandrake Grows
Some nightmares come true. Sometimes they don’t, but they recur over and over. Roto Visage is like those nightmares we have as children that continue to pursue us as we grow older, with little to no hope of escape. Above all, Roto Visage is art, surreal and soul searing, a manifestation of our most horrendous
The Mission Creeps – Dark Cells
Tucson, Arizona stalwarts The Mission Creeps have been creeping (pun very much intended, and not a good one, but I tried!) around for some time now with their horror-inspired brand of surfy-garagey-rockabilly’y jams. Their second full-length continues their path of zombies, ghouls, and Frankenstein-filled nightmares with nods to political and social matters and plenty of tongue-in-cheekiness for