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VARIOUS ARTISTS : UK BLACK METAL VOLUME 3 Panzerfaust Productions/UK Legions of Black Metal With an overflowing platter of the world’s underground music now increasingly accessible at the click of a button, you’d expect compilation releases like this disc released in co-operation by Panzerfaust Productions and the UK Legions of Black Metal to be going [...]

BLOODDAWN : OPUS DEI Panzerfaust Productions Blooddawn’s Paul ever-so-kindly sent me the imposing limited edition of this release AEONS ago, and I shall dutifully self-flagellate for not having been capable of writing much until recently (this might be a fitting activity, I guess, given the title of the album). Time-lapse aside, the arrival of this [...]

OV HOLLOWNESS : DRAWN TO DESCEND Hypnotic Dirge Records Such is my aversion to the ‘word’ OV, I might not have picked this up on my own, so thank your evil aunts for Hypnotic Dirge Records, whom I trust unfalteringly to direct me towards overlooked gems. Founded in 2009, Ov Hollowness, the work of solo [...]

FUNERAL FORNICATION : PANDEMIC TRANSGRESSION Hypnotic Dirge Records Funeral Fornication’s Vultyrous has shown admirable determination over the years when it comes to judging when to rest the project, and when to re-animate his creative vision. “Pandemic Transgression” is the fourth full-length from this metamorphosing black metal project, following pretty close on the heels of 2009’s [...]

EKOVE EFRITS : CONCEPTUAL HORIZON Hypnotic Dirge Records Billing as “one of the premier bands of the Iranian black metal scene” still leaves Ekove Efrits as an unknown quantity to the vast majority of extreme music fans, and yet “Conceptual Horizon” is the third full-length from the project, which is the work of talented solo [...]

Wake up North America… after three decades of waiting, British thrash masters Onslaught will cross the Atlantic for their first ever tour of the continent in March and April! The 20-date trek gets underway in Seattle on March 19th and tramples its way across the continent ending in Brooklyn on April 7th. The band’s exclusive [...]

Swedish tech-titans Spawn of Possession have announced the final details for their upcoming third full-length, “Incurso” - the band’s first album for Relapse Records – which is already one of the most anticipated death metal releases of 2012. Now confirmed to infest audiences on March 13th, “Incurso” was recorded with engineer Magnus Sedenberg at Pama Studios [...]

Sweden’s Shining, the extreme metal band founded by controversial front man Niklas Kvarforth, has today entered the Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden, with producer Andy La Rocque to begin recording the band’s eighth full-length album, which, as is usual with Shining, currently only bears the working title VIII. Shining has set up a blog [...]

United Kingdom Extreme Metal Records, the small, independent label specialising in short-run, limited releases from UK extreme metal bands, have proudly announced their first roster signing, Scottish brutal death metal act Laceration. The label plans to release “Tortured Inauguration” in Spring 2012. This limited digi-pack release features Laceration’s “2011 Promo”, with the tracks from 2010 [...]

Vulture Industries will play two shows in February, which will see the Norwegian Progressive Extreme Metallers perform a set which will include some unexpected material that the band is rehearsing especially for these two performances. Also making a guest appearance for some of the set will be Taake front man Hoest. The first of the [...]