Darkspace, Dark Space -II, France, Season of Mist, SOM776 CD digisleeve / vinyl LP (2024) With the departure of bassist
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Contranatura: a three-stage descent into the deepest part of Hell
Reflection of Misery, Contranatura, Nicaragua, Exnihilo Records, ENR07, CD (2023) Onto their third recording and second album “Contranatura”, and already
Continue readingBlack Tides: a whimsical ride through blackened surf rock / psychedelia and Lovecraft-lite horror
Kólga, Black Tides, United States, self-released, CD / vinyl LP (2024) One look at that wacky album cover and I
Continue readingEcclesia Gnostica: an ambitious melodic black metal debut in esoteric spirituality and Gnostic philosophy
A/Oratos, Ecclesia Gnostica, France, Les Acteurs de l’Ombre Productions, AO 230 CD / LPAO-231 vinyl LP (2024) Nearly five years
Continue readingOdium: blackened death metal / industrial soundscape journeys through a hostile, malevolent cosmos
Mahr, Odium, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP250 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like fellow Prava Kollektiv bands Arkhtinn, Hwwauoch, Pharmakeia
Continue readingUnder the Gaze of Dissolution: diving into a black sonic universe of pain, torment and madness
Hwwauoch, Under the Gaze of Dissolution, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, vinyl LP (2023) Along with four other bands, these being
Continue readingTo Infect | To Inflict: a murky, noisy work of cosmic black metal
Voidsphere, To Infect | To Inflict, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 251 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Like its sibling
Continue readingMaenadic Ecstasy: a brutal and bestial set of black metal noise ambience
Pharmakeia, Maenadic Ecstasy, Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 252 cassette / vinyl LP (2023) The youngest of the Prava Kollektiv
Continue readingThird Disaster: interstellar raw BM / dark ambient racing to the edge of the cosmos
Arkhtinn, 三度目の災害 (Third Disaster), Germany, Amor Fati Productions, AFP 253 CD / vinyl LP (2023) Arkhtinn is the most senior
Continue readingOmukade: a strange and wondrous journey through free-form death metal / jazz / grindcore
Ukakuja, Omukade, United Kingdom, Centipede Abyss, limited edition CD (2023) If the front cover artwork doesn’t put you off, you
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