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Tag: Black Metal

12/02/2017 nausika

Exile: tough and desperate raw BM songs with an individual flavour

Vrag, Exile, Germany, Schattenkult Produktionen, CD SKP076 (2017) “Exile” is a very fitting title for Vrag’s most recent recording: in

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08/02/2017 nausika

Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition: not with this album, that’s for sure

Cara Neir, Perpetual Despair is the Human Condition, Broken Limbs Recordings, BLR057, 12″ vinyl (2016) Strange that Cara Neir’s discography

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03/02/2017 nausika

HØST: a wild ride into the most deranged realms of acid BM fury

Holokauston, HØST, New Zealand, The Dark Thursday, digital album TDT71 / Ukraine, Depressive Illusion Records, floppy diskette FNR218 (2017) As debut

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02/02/2017 nausika

Life, Sex and Death: a homage to a Tantric Hindu goddess and what she represents

Cult of Fire, Life, Sex & Death, Czech Republic, Beyond Eyes, CD BE04 (2016) Judging from the very ornate cover,

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16/01/2017 nausika

Black Wisdom: taking dissonant black / death metal into dark ambient and prog-rock realms

Grey Heaven Fall, Black Wisdom, Russia, Aesthetics of Devastation, CD AOD-2 (2015) True it is that French avant-garde black metallers

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23/12/2016 nausika

Flogo de Bort: small deadly release of powerful raw ambient BM

Gnipahålan, Flögo De Bort, Sweden, Ancient Records (2015) / Germany, Purity Through Fire, PTF059 (2016) Gnipahålan looks like a new

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22/12/2016 nausika

The Irrepassable Gate: an uneven recording with good moments … and some very long ones too …

Ash Borer, The Irrepassable Gate, Canada, Profound Lore Records, CD PFL174 (2016) If you’re thinking “there’s no such word as

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21/12/2016 nausika

IV / Appendixes: a compilation forming a bridge between albums, and a bridge between worlds

Aosoth, IV / Appendixes, Czech Republic, Cloven Hoof Brewing & Releasing, cassette Call 001 (limited edition) (2016) I hadn’t heard

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15/12/2016 nausika

Luminiferous Aether: cosmic space black metal stretched too wormhole thin

Mare Cognitum, Luminiferous Aether, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, CD IVR064 (2016) Album title “Luminiferous Aether”, meaning the sky air that

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13/12/2016 nausika

Emotionale Odnis: a powerful if not very original debut of runaway dark atmospheric black metal

Tardigrada, Emotionale Ödnis, Germany, Eisenwald Tonschmiede, CD digipak EISEN112 (2016) Tardigrada, indeed! – I first came across that word while

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