This is a more brief discussion that took place over the course of a week with the venerable and fervorous A.A. Nemtheanga with the intentio...

The Divine Punishment by Antediluvian •  †  • If you have been following this blog for a while now you'll know that I am fully in favour...

Opprobrium by Lykhaeon •  †  • Opprobrium has come as a pleasant surprise to me, this being my first listen through of Switzerland's Ly...

Darkness Swallows All by Diocletian •  †  • Diocletian have been pummelling peoples ears into submission for the last decade and with their...

Vassafor III - To The Death by Vassafor •  †  • New Zealand's soil is no stranger to dredging up some filthy and uncompromising ...

Infinite Worship, Slaves Eternal by KNEEL •  †  • Probably one of the finest EP's cut from the cloth of black metal I've hea...

\ Endless Wound by Black Curse •  †  • Black Curse seems to be something of an amalgamation from the bands Spectral Voice , Blood In...

Steeping Corporeal Mess by Fetid •  †  • This record to me stood out most last year, not to say it was my favourite release in 2019,...

The Baneful Choir by Teitanblood •  †  • I've been waiting a long time for Teitanblood to unearth another full-length album. I d...

VT-XXIV || Urine of Abomination by Triumvir Foul •  †  • Going to throw up a few EP's into the blog piss pot for you slugs to si...

Reign of the Unending by Death Fortress •  †  • Death Fortress were heinously late to the end of the year release bukake party in 20...

Inhüma by ESOCTRILIHUM •  †  • Asthâghul has been trimming the fat around his sleep schedule this year, or forfeited the irrelevan...

VT-XVIII || Lustful Vengeance by Serum Dreg •  †  • Serum Dreg ; Two-piece from Portland, Oregon churning butter into furiously fera...

Disinterred Horror by Ritual Necromancy •  †  • Yeah dude, Ritual Necromancy have finally released a follow up to their 2012 releas...

Apanthropinization by Abyssal •  †  • I've only listened to the Abyssal side of this split so far, but that to me is reason eno...

Iceland just might be the most consistent hotbed for churning out bestial sounding black metal. The same way New Zealand and Canada have...

Found this sucker buried in my email inbox. Filthy death metal married with feral black metal flowing through the same abscessed vein as...

Begrimed, soupy bestial death metal from New Zealand. I've been a fan of these Kiwi's since I bought their EP Hammers of Intrans...

Canadian death metal rules… S o does death metal from New Zealand though. Well, death metal from all over rules - But wh at I think I re...

(NIGH)   This year, I decided I was going to do a separate post for the best Demos/Eps/Splits out this year. I am splitting these up in...