Archgoat – Whore of Bethlehem

Evil, satanic, occult black/death metal from Finland, it's worth a listen.

Diocletian - War of all Against All

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Keraphorus - Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn

Being a huge fan of Order from Chaos, I was really excited to hear of Keraphorus which features none other than Pete Helmkamp. Not to mention other members from Angelcorpse and Morbosidad.

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Deathspell Omega - Paracletus/Manifestations

Do yourself a favor and buy the new Deathspell LP, sounds really promising. Here's the new track called Devouring Famine. They have now signed with Seasons of Mist and this is the final record in their trilogy. And for the few of you who haven't heard Deathspell I'm putting up Manifestations which is a collection of early works to get you started.

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Dahmer - The Studio Sessions Discography

Fast, brutal grind from Canada and unfortunately broke up in 2000... we'll just say I'm celebrating the 10th anniversary of their tragic break-up.

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Ashdautas - Shadow Plays of Grief and Pain

Further proof that America has some really good BM bands.. confused as to why most of them are out of California though. Either way this is Ashdautas who blew me away when I saw them in Philly with Volahn (also the singer and guitarist) and Bone Awl. It's just what you're expecting in the black metal category except for the ghoulish screams reminiscent of older Burzum.

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MGLA - Groza

Flowing black metal from Poland evil and angry with pretty decent production, and apparently pronounced 'mgwah'. Thanks Metal Archives for more useless info that I will never be able to get rid of.

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Anhedonist - Demo

I've been excited about friends' bands before and then there is Anhedonist, one of the most brutal, evil sounding bands out of Washington. Combining slow black metal-ish sound with doom/death metal style, don't take my word just get it ...don't sleep on this band I will post more details about further releases.

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Bestial Warlust - Blood & Valour

Fast, brutal, war metal from Australia!

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Disembowelment - Mourning September Demo

Slow, evil, depressing death/doom metal, absolutely mandatory!

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Fall of the Bastards/Book of Black Earth Split

I've never been a huge fan of Book of Black Earth but the Fall of the Bastards side is pretty epic, imagine early Ulver meets Gospel of the Horns.

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Revenge - Triumph. Genocide. Antichrist

I can proudly say that I saw these guys around this time... if memory serves me right. Either way I went with my best friend because we never had anything better to do than to go to a shitty venue called Jaxx in Northern Virgina to see death metal bands play. I guess we caught it the right night because we saw Revenge and I was blown away buy what I saw, epic war metal! I don't know what this will do for you but at the time it was life changing for me.

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Sourlows is 1

Wanted to say thanks to the 25 of you who "read" the blog, keep it up and I might just keep it going. I'm also looking possibly for a co-author so get at me if you have any interest... and a good taste in music... which I assume you do because you're here.

Funebrarum - Beneath the Columns of Abandoned Gods

I'm generally sold on anything that NWN! has had a hand in and this is no exception, Funebrarum plays death metal in a way that would make Autopsy, Morbid Angel and Incantation proud. Get it!

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Krohm - The Haunting Presence

Further indication that U.S.B.M. can actually be good... and yes it is another one man band. Not the usual run of the mill lo-fi Burzum worship (while that does have it's place after all) just a slew of influences. Ambient black metal with some serious doom influences... I find myself coming back to this band when I've lost faith in American Black Metal. Enjoy!

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Graveland - The Celtic Winter

I must reiterate that I don't care for the these bands politics but the record is just so good.. true old school black metal done right.

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Sigrblot - Blodsband

Very few black metal bands now are able to do it for me... Sigrblot is one of the very few, download and you'll understand as well.

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Loss - Life Without Hope... Death Without Reason

Yeah I already posted this album, just letting you folks know that Parasitic Records finally gave this album a well deserved LP release. Comes with a fold out poster... RECORD IS LIMITED TO 500 COPIES!!

Get it NOW before it's gone!

Colosseum - Chapter 1: Delirium

Epic Funeral Doom from Finland, as if enough great doom doesn't already come out of this Country.

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Arghoslent - Hornets of the Pogrom

You will be forewarned, this is NSDM! Moving on.. aside from the ignorant subject matter this record from start to finish is not only catchy as hell but has some really awesome riffs that dominate the entirety of the album. One member of Grand Belial's Key also... sketchy!

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