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Milan-based solo project Inqvisitor, the brainchild of Cliff Scott, best known for his work in Meursault Omega and Sorrowtale, has surfaced with a new single, The Azoth Ritual, ahead of an upcoming seven-track album titled Sublunar Attunement. Operating out of Vespertine Studios where Scott produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered the entire effort himself, Inqvisitor trades…
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Belgian death metallers Carnation are back, trading standard-issue gore tropes for a bit of existential dread with their new single, Boundless Pathways. Serving as the gateway track to their upcoming full-length Symphony in Flesh, the new song acts as a sonic blueprint for the record while dragging lyrical themes into heavier philosophical territory. Instead of…
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Swiss death metallers Nihilo have spent over two decades quietly putting in the hard yards. Spearheaded by vocalist Ragulan Vivekananthan, the band have churned out a steady stream of EPs, four full-length records, and last year’s live outing Chaos Unleashed without ever chasing fleeting trends or pretending to reinvent the wheel. Now, they’ve joined forces…
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If you’ve been paying attention to the German underground over the last decade and a half, you’ll know Hamburg trio Shakhtyor don’t do things in a hurry. Formed back in 2009, they’ve spent the best part of sixteen years systematically ignoring the unwritten rules of instrumental doom, throwing black metal outbursts, spacey synth textures, and…
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If you thought UK sludge-doom outfit Sea Bastard were dead and buried, you’d almost have been right. Formed back in 2011, the band dropped their self-titled debut in 2012, followed hot on its heels by 2013’s Scabrous, earned their stripes touring alongside the likes of Primitive Man and Witchsorrow, and then vanished into the void…
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Straight off the bat, I’m gonna tell you, I absolutely fucking adore this film. I can’t quite put my finger on why I love it so much, other than it’s a fantastic piece of work, without giving away so much of what makes Split Rock one of the most suffocating films set in vast wide…
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Nicky Murphy’s vampire mockumentary I Love Paris has won the Golden Monster for Best Feature Film at Melbourne’s Monster Fest following its Australian premiere. It’s the latest award in a busy festival run for the blood-soaked dark comedy. Since its July debut at Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, where it took the Gold Audience Award,…
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Cuban-formed, Swiss-based death-doom outfit Sectarium have released their second studio album, Mud Teeth. Originating in Cuba’s underground extreme metal scene in the early 1990s before relocating to Switzerland, the band is led by founding member Oliva alongside vocalist and guitarist Doomslayer. Across nine tracks, the record delivers an organic brand of death-doom that entirely bypasses…
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Norwegian death metal outfit Oskaal have released a lyric video for Refused, taken from their album (A)live, out now via Wormholedeath. The track deals with violence, isolation and exploitation, focusing on the lasting damage caused by abuse and the alienation that follows. Musically, Oskaal pair technical death metal with a more measured, unsettling approach, letting…
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Dallas atmospheric black metal quartet Wyrm Chasm will release their self-titled debut album on October 23, bringing a decade of work together on their first full-length. Formed in 2015 by guitarist Eric Carrasco and bassist and vocalist Stephen Jeter, the band have spent the past ten years developing a sound built around raw, desolate atmospheres,…