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Latest Updates
- September 17, 2026
- review Draugaskógur - Stellar Torch of the Magical Depths
- review Void Monuments - Posthumous Imprecation
- review Rancorous - In Extremis [Compilation]
- review Vile Apparition - Malignity
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Sprengkopf - Sprengkopf
- September 16, 2026
- review Wyrm Chasm - Wyrm Chasm
- review Venomous Invokation - Diabolic Death Metal [Demo]
- review Bocc - Demolarium
- review Rot Fester - Death Row [EP]
- September 15, 2026
- review Severoth - Waves
- review Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
- review Ancient Necromancy - With Souls Stained, and Hearts Forever Black, We Gaze upon Severed Heavens [Demo]
- review Devouring Famine - Industria Mortis
- review Desecrated Altar - Rites of Imprecation [Demo]
- review Morgued - Ordnance Obscenum
- review Inbryne - Heretic Chants & Nocturnal Flesh
- review Impending Rot - Anatomical Discorporated Aberration [EP / Reissue]
- September 14, 2026
- review Red Right Hand of Plague - Transgress. Scar. Numen
- review Thanatomass - The Rabid Dead [EP]
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Black Metamorphosis - Black Metamorphosis [Demo]
- review (Short) Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement
- review (Short) Barbarie Medieval - En la oscuridad... un lamento / La barbarie continúa... [Compilation]
- review Spirit Possession - Cathedral Speech
- review Runemagick - After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil
- review Doodswens - Doodswens
- review Möhrkvlth - Gwenojennoù an ankounac'h
- September 13, 2026
- review Dissident Faith - Dissidance
- review (The Past is Alive) Nechbeyth - Coerce Creed [EP]
- review Escarnium - Inexorable Entropy
- review Ravaged by the Yeti - Snowbound Horror
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Deus Ex Machina - III
- September 12, 2026
- review Tombstalker - Chaos Monolith
- review Hajduk - Хвърковата чета
- interview Cartilage - “The storyline for this record came about from a nightmare one of the band members had”
- review Terrestrial Hospice - Omnicide - Chapter I
- review Low - Through the Pentagon into Mass Submission [EP]
- September 11, 2026
- review Maggod - Salvation Denied
- review Nunslaughter - Satanic Chaos Legions
- review Walg - V
- review Miserate - Weaver of Witchery [EP]
- September 10, 2026
- review Kyūketsuki - Shōgun Satan
- review Creeping Flesh - God's Acres Rife with Flesh Adorned
- review Hell-Born - VII
- review Drawn and Quartered - Lord of Two Horns
- review Kos - Cross Leech [Demo]
- September 9, 2026
- review Inferno - The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)
- review Mooncitadel - Hyperborean Combat Overlord
- review Sulphuric Deity - Extermination Hammer [EP]
- review Tiger Battalion - Global Assault
- review (The Past is Alive) Purbawisesa - Misantrofik Universal Death [Demo]
- September 8, 2026
- review Fellwinter - Fellwinter
- review Wyrdwraak - Schimmenheim [EP]
- review Spere - Blotters in Saline Water
- review Necropsia - Eternal Death
- review Swarn - Corpsetrader [EP]
- review 絜钩 (Xié Gòu) - 无何有 (Wu He You)
- September 7, 2026
- news Gates of Ishtar ready with new album called 'Murder the Light' after 30 years: "Not a lookback but a continuation built on the same foundation and spirit that defined us then and still drives us now."
- review Göden - Vale of the Fallen
- review Dead Void - Cranial Devastation
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Antologi - Berjuang
- review Mammon's Throne - My Body to the Worms
- review Demonic Manifestation - Grimshrine
- review Truth Be Known - All are Equal in the Pit
- review Cerebrum Necrosis - Demo 2026 [Demo]
- review Neural Abyss - Everything Is Over
- September 6, 2026
- review Forsmán - Brenndar rústir & fuðrandi fjörur
- review Pendulvm - Susurros espectrales
- review Unholy Black Pentagram - Desecrating the Altars of Purity: Unholy Rituals of the Goatlord [Demo]
- review Arckanum - Motestandarin [EP]
- review Bloodstone - Electrocution
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Welkin - 武勇 / Emblems of Valour
- review Purnamwulan - Rajapatih
- September 5, 2026
- news Wolfkult Religion releasing Severe Torture's demo on vinyl: "People who were there, roughly between 1997 and 2000, knew this band was destined for great things."
- review Stormkeep - The Nocturnes of Iswylm
- review Sardonic Witchery - Hell's Thorns Attack
Latest Reviews
- September 17, 2026
- review Draugaskógur - Stellar Torch of the Magical Depths
- review Void Monuments - Posthumous Imprecation
- review Rancorous - In Extremis [Compilation]
- review Vile Apparition - Malignity
- September 16, 2026
- review Wyrm Chasm - Wyrm Chasm
- review Venomous Invokation - Diabolic Death Metal [Demo]
- review Bocc - Demolarium
- review Rot Fester - Death Row [EP]
- September 15, 2026
- review Severoth - Waves
- review Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
- review Ancient Necromancy - With Souls Stained, and Hearts Forever Black, We Gaze upon Severed Heavens [Demo]
- review Devouring Famine - Industria Mortis
- review Desecrated Altar - Rites of Imprecation [Demo]
- review Morgued - Ordnance Obscenum
- review Inbryne - Heretic Chants & Nocturnal Flesh
- review Impending Rot - Anatomical Discorporated Aberration [EP / Reissue]
- September 14, 2026
- review Red Right Hand of Plague - Transgress. Scar. Numen
- review Thanatomass - The Rabid Dead [EP]
- review Spirit Possession - Cathedral Speech
- review Runemagick - After Chaos: Nocturnal Vigil
Latest Interviews
- September 12, 2026
- interview Cartilage - “The storyline for this record came about from a nightmare one of the band members had”
- August 28, 2026
- interview Warp Chamber - "Death metal and tradition can be a funny thing."
- August 15, 2026
- interview Pulverised Records - "For me personally, there’s no definitive qualities in what I look for in a band because as much as this sounds ridiculous, I’m very much based on gut feeling these days."
- August 7, 2026
- interview ChaosWolf: "Every album I make is a farewell. An unsuccessful one. A failed goodbye."
- July 26, 2026
- interview Nerraka / Hellthrone Productions - "With social media today, it's very easy for people to misunderstand things or jump to conclusions"
- July 21, 2026
- interview LIK - "If more people and bands, like us, embrace the Old School Death Metal scene with all that comes with it, I am all for it!"
- July 18, 2026
- interview Witches Hammer - "I just wasn’t a fan of anything coming out in the 90s. I found it rather pedestrian and boring.."
- July 14, 2026
- interview Burying Angels - "Old school melodic Death Metal to me is more about writing great riffs and melodies, and usually the more simple it is, the better it sounds."
- June 20, 2026
- interview Luciferian Rites - "Something that I'm told and that echoes in my mind is, if you're going to do something, do it honestly."
- May 1, 2026
- interview Mutagenic Host - "We didn’t keep a single riff we did not think was absolute mustard."
Latest Short Review
- September 14, 2026
- review (Short) Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement
- review (Short) Barbarie Medieval - En la oscuridad... un lamento / La barbarie continúa... [Compilation]
- August 29, 2026
- review (Short) Dark Indication - Suppressed Horror
- review (Short) Hädangången - Vädjan
- August 17, 2026
- review (Short) Come Back from the Dead - Ad Nauseam [EP]
- August 15, 2026
- review (Short) Treacher - Hibernation of Death
- August 11, 2026
- review (Short) Petrification - Sever Sacred Light
- August 10, 2026
- review (Short) An-Xul - An-Xul
- August 8, 2026
- review (Short) Atonement - Ripping Death [Demo]
- August 5, 2026
- review (Short) Viogression - Thaumaturgic Veil
Buried by Time and Dust
- September 17, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Sprengkopf - Sprengkopf
- September 14, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Black Metamorphosis - Black Metamorphosis [Demo]
- September 13, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Deus Ex Machina - III
- September 7, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Antologi - Berjuang
- September 6, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Welkin - 武勇 / Emblems of Valour
- August 31, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Unchurch - Ode to Blasphemy [EP]
- August 29, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Valosta Varjoon - Boarisch Grattlig
- August 24, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Vassago - Storm of Satan
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Vassago - Knights of Hell [Re-Release]
- August 22, 2026
- review (Buried by Time and Dust) Ulveriddr - Jörðhöll [Demo]
The Past is Alive
- September 13, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Nechbeyth - Coerce Creed [EP]
- September 9, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Purbawisesa - Misantrofik Universal Death [Demo]
- August 24, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Vassago - Knights of Hell
- July 15, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Dark Oasis - Lurking in the Darkness [EP]
- July 13, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Mutation - Void of Disharmony [EP]
- July 9, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Decollation - Cursed Lands [EP]
- July 8, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Dark Tranquillity - The Mind’s I
- July 7, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery
- July 6, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Dark Tranquillity - Skydancer
- May 22, 2026
- review (The Past is Alive) Merciless - Realm of the Dark [Demo]
Latest Fanzine Review
- August 15, 2026
- fanzine The Metal Grimoire - Issue #1
- August 2, 2026
- fanzine Necroscope - Issue #41
- fanzine Necroscope – Issue #40
- July 31, 2026
- fanzine Conscious Rot - Issue #4
- fanzine Conscious Rot - Issue #3
- April 13, 2026
- fanzine The Medieval Hagiography - Issue #2
- March 20, 2026
- fanzine Devoured Death Zine - Issue #6(66)
- February 17, 2026
- fanzine The Medieval Hagiography – Issue #1
- February 7, 2026
- fanzine Altar - Issue #1
- December 30, 2025
- fanzine Zwarte Kunst – Issue #1
Latest Articles
- August 9, 2026
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- June 18, 2026
- article Highlights of the Month – April 2026
- May 15, 2026
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- March 30, 2026
- article Highlights of the Month - February 2026
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Cronos Compulsion – Malicious Regression [EP]
review | April 24, 2023