Deadspace - Mouth of Scorpions
With three tracks – Heart Of Stone, Mouth Of Scorpions and World Of Pain – this EP presents to its listeners a vividly sculpted, pure and savage black metal, in the best old school style. With a hazardous, intense and agonizing atmosphere, wildly saturated by lancinating and furious, but exceedingly poetic guitar lines, the mixture of melodic elements ads a fascinating charge of beauty into the moonlight melodies of its insurgent signature sound.
With a perceptive, dense and afflictive soundscape that invokes the abominable sensation of imminent end, the second song, |
Sarkrista - Under Sentence of Death
A marvelous twelve minute EP with two songs – Under Sentence of Death, the title track, and As Mountains Disappeared in Fog – Sarkrista is a German black metal group, that creates and delivers old school black metal style on its purest form. With a gracious and deceptive fury that virtually destroys absolutely everything that stands on its way, this glorious EP, despite its simplicity, has a high degree of quality and monumental standards that stands for everything that true black metal genuinely represents.
With aggressive guitar lines, powerfully insane vocals and dark, evocative sinister |
Hellevaerder - Aan De Aarde Teruggegeven

Hobbit - Leaving the Shire
Despite its low production values, and the “home made” feeling inspired by it throughout the music, Leaving the Shire is an interesting and honest EP. With six tracks – Adventure in a Small Size, Leaving the Shire, The Meeting of Aragorn, Weathertop and the Morgul Blade, Enter Rivendell and Moria – the songs present the genre in a more brute, symbolic and raw state, evaluating the possibilities exposed at the epicenter of its own eccentric experimentation.
Although the music in itself is not impressive, there is a certain dynamic and a respectable degree of audacity here, that really feels and |
Stronghold Guardian - Eastward
Eastward is a record released by Serbian medieval dark dungeon synth artist Stronghold Guardian, one of the most beautiful, poetic and profound ever created in the history of the genre. With ten tracks – 1301 A.D., Eastward, Castlebound, The Magic of the Ages Long Forgotten, A Silent Passage (Hermit's Path), Red Dragon Tavern, The Owl and the Forest, A New Beginning, The Abandoned Keep and Lost Forever in the Tides of Time – the work is amazingly serene, vividly lucid, explores deeply the gracefully tempestuous calmness of the genre, and conceives through beautiful melodies in a vast journey situated in a lost era of medieval
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As a deeply surreal sensitive journey to another period of time, Eastward guides the listener to a more cosmic and sagacious dimension, using ascendant and imperiously captivating melodies to propitiate to the senses a sensational dream closer to reality. With amazingly evocative sonorous layers suggestive of Celtic and Arthurian imagery, the music displayed by Stronghold Guardian on Eastward is a true gift to the lovers of the genre, as it captures on the truth of its vigorous, but soft harmonies, the voracious elements of a gracious fantasy, and translates them to a level of perception that is close to the heart. Undoubtedly, a majestic and poetic state of the artwork, that you are going to love it.
Arsule - La Cité Enfouie
A formidable dungeon synth work from France, La Cité Enfouie is a marvelously melancholic, serene and poetic work, that explores at the profound layers of its philosophic conscience the imponderable, but frail sensibility of the human nature. Although only nineteen minutes long, it has seven relatively brief and concise tracks: La source, La procession des Hauts Flambeaux, Les portes, L'allée du peuple pétrifié, Errances dans le dédale aux chimères, Au cratère cramoisi, la complainte du volcan and Le sanctuaire luxuriante. With magnanimous, but incisive melodies, that floats freely throughout oceans of harmonious sentimental
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Forelunar - Wine and the Limerent
Wine and the Limerent is a twenty minutes EP released in June by Iranian atmospheric black metal act Forelunar. With two tracks – Lunar Wine and Ephemeral Light – the work is calm, exceedingly well done, impeccable and expresses an artistic and ambitious sonorous vastness within the major highlights of its qualities, that reveals a solid and true consistence on the disposition of its harmonies. With a profound poetic proposal, that invites the listener to dive deep into a universe of nostalgic and ethereal dreamscapes, Wine and the Limerent mixtures the masterful majesty of the omnipotent traces of a serene, eloquent and
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Curse Upon A Prayer - The Three Woes
The Three Woes is an EP released in June 21 by Finnish black metal group Curse Upon a Prayer. Almost seventeen minutes long, it has three tracks: Let Thy Kingdom Come, Thou Shalt Be Cursed and Woe! Woe! Woe! Exceedingly impressive, with a tremendous amount of authenticity, originality and energy, Curse Upon A Prayer displays a formidably marvelous degree of artistry within this work, with rapid guitar lines, melancholic, sinister and pervasive atmospheres, and an aggressive, but imperiously lugubrious harmonious density, that conceives within the framework of its melodies the galactic
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