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Reviews for Pestilential Shadows - Wretch

Far past death and through the veil into the beyond shall we return… Australia’s Dark Arts Vanguard, Pestilential Shadows, is back! Formed in 2003, PS has become an Aussie Black Metal ...

7th Jul, 2025
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Føsphene - Føsphene

To find light within the lightless… Careening into the ever-sure spiral of the Mortal Coil as it twists its way downward into a most inglorious end are we all. To understand this truth is to ...

3rd Jul, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Arkhaeth - Profound Lore of the Ashen Specters

The exploration of Luciferian doctrines and their implications on the human spirit; development of self and the quest for enlightenment - the attaining of forbidden knowledge through the practice of ...

30th Jun, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Wothrosch - Odium

If Acherontas visionary and proprietor of Zazen Sounds, VP Adept and Lucifer’s Child conjurer and owner of Pentagram Studio, George Emmanuel, have their hands in it, then it’s no doubt a ...

29th Jun, 2025
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Abigail Williams - A Void Within Existence

Abigail Williams - what began as a Symphonic Black/Metalcore project back in 2004, has evolved into what it is today - a legit Black Metal band. I’m not saying that their previous output was no ...

26th Jun, 2025
Score:
93% 4.7 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Ad Omega - Fathan Aiseras Seus

“We will rise again to re-establish the glory of the twelve cities…” Within the depths of Agartha lies the secrets of the Ancient Etruscans - sacred knowledge bound to secrecy until ...

26th Jun, 2025
Score:
95% 4.8 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Draugveil - Cruel World of Dreams and Fears

The ruins of yesterday stand as effigies of an existence that once held meaning. A thriving life that once fostered dreams and ambitions, now a desolate scape where the hope of those salad days of ...

14th Jun, 2025
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Lucifer’s Child - The Illuminant

The Greek Black Metal scene was birthed alongside the Norwegian movement, and has kept in stride with it in some ways and surpassed it in others. The Greeks play BM the olde Hellenic way: theatrical, ...

14th Jun, 2025
Score:
97% 4.9 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Nokturnal Mortum - Істина

Ukraine’s own Nokturnal Mortum! Yes, they have played far right shows/festivals, and yes, they have been affiliated with the NSBM movement. But here’s a little zinger for you: who fucking ...

13th Jun, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Austere (AUS) - The Stillness of Dissolution

There is beauty in depression. Yearning for a better day and that feeling of how things cannot get any worse - the bottom reached; assuring that ascension can be the only outcome, as long as we ...

12th Jun, 2025
Score:
94% 4.7 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Gaahls Wyrd - Braiding the Stories

Gaahl has had an illustrious career in black metal. From Gorgoroth to God Seed to Gaahls Wyrd he has continued to produce well regarded albums and live shows. If we forego the past controversies of ...

10th Jun, 2025
Score:
85% 4.3 star rating
Review by
ScorchedEarth
Reviews for Warmoon Lord - Sacrosanct Demonopathy

It appears the Finns have done it again… What a celebratory year it has been thus far for Finnish Black Metal. We’ve had the pleasure of taking in top shelf records like Sargeist’s ...

10th Jun, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Spectral Lore - III

III

Ayloss, the man behind Spectral Lore, has been making great BM since 2005. He is credited on this album as with music, lyrics, production, and mixing. Impressive feat on any album but a ninety minute ...

8th Jun, 2025
Score:
97% 4.9 star rating
Review by
ScorchedEarth
Reviews for Ancient Torment - Follow the Echo of Curses

The great passing on - life’s precious embers finally extinguished by Death’s icy grip, and nothing to show for it but time so frivolously wasted. The mystery of death is a haunting curse; ...

8th Jun, 2025
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Chamber of Mirrors - Follow the Echo of Curses

When Black Metal began all those years ago with Bathory’s “Under the Sign of the Black Mark”, which is, in my opinion, the blueprint for BM as we know it today, it was never intended ...

8th Jun, 2025
Score:
95% 4.8 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Affliction Vector - Contra Hominem

Some gifts come packaged in primitive ensconcements, and the gift itself? Like lifting a goat corpse’s head out of the muck of some putrid bog. Surprise! Within the scope of Black/Death Metal - ...

7th Jun, 2025
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Nemus Anima - Rivers Flow Red

The renowned Finnish black metal scene has produced some of the finest Black Metal bands to have ever struck a chord or to have penned a note. The Trinity: Horna, Sargeist and Behexen. The ...

5th Jun, 2025
Score:
90% 4.5 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Mayhem (NOR) - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas

Mayhem is a band whose legend of death precedes them. An overrated discography to their name, but nonetheless a collective of the utmost importance to Black Metal. After all, where would the genre be ...

2nd Jun, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Revenge (CAN) - Violation.Strife.Abominate

Humans are swine! Scrapping and gluttonous for their meaningless pieces of gratification. Sending out to the world their representative personas - “living their best lives” - social media ...

2nd Jun, 2025
Score:
80% 4.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Empeiria - The Ascent: Szenen der Katharsis

I do love a good Black Metal mystery group. Germany’s Empeiria - a duo whose identities are unknown. It’s their music that does the speaking, and with their latest release, Empeiria has ...

2nd Jun, 2025
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Hate Forest - Against All Odds

Boots on the ground… Bravery within their hearts! As Proud Ukrainian warriors so steadfastly defend their land from tyranny, many men are making their voices heard. Hate Forest’s Roman ...

30th May, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Sargeist - Flame Within Flame

This is why we do it… This is why we indulge in Black Metal, whether it be from an Enthusiast’s or a Journalist’s standpoint. Sargeist is back! And along with their new album, ...

28th May, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Sarastus - Agony Eternal

Sarastus - the reigning Finnish underground’s most promising triumvirate of the blackest art of BM - a tightly-knit brotherhood of artists whose impact has been starkly felt since their ...

25th May, 2025
Score:
90% 4.5 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Profanatica - Wreathed in Dead Angels

Profanatica should be a household name for anyone whose taste for all things vile and blasphemous knows no limits. All American black/death that’s been a threat to holy ears since 1990. Formerly ...

24th May, 2025
Score:
85% 4.3 star rating
Review by
Jeger
Reviews for Trivax - The Great Satan

There is no religion more oppressive than Islam… It’s tyrannical grip upon the Middle East sees people stoned to death, dismembered and hanged for failing to comply with Sharia Law. It ...

24th May, 2025
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Jeger
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