Nattverd – Styggdom
These guys are hellbent on bringing traditional malevolence to the sonic sphere, and this tome is an impressive body of work dedicated to the dark.
Starving For Death – Starving For Death EP
It’s beautiful and troublesome and let’s you feel the pain of the creator.
Kvaen – The Funeral Pyre
A brilliant send up to the 80s seeds of the black metal genre, thrash and speed metal bands that played with that extra edge of evil, while still maintaining a modern sound.
Sjálfsmorð af Gáleysi – The Ruins of Eden
Once you let yourself be immersed within the labyrinth realms of this one man band you’ll be reminded that it is coming from one of the top provider countries when it comes to modern but relentless Black Metal.
Wardaemonic – Acts of Repentance
Acts of Repentance exhibits an inferno which is supernatural, audibly from above, fittingly daemonic.
Aethyrick – Gnosis
While their debut Praxis was overlooked, Gnosis is certain to bring Aethyrick into the forefront of Finnish Black Metal.
Orgg – The Great White War
Though there are highs and lows throughout the album, moments of aggression, and moments of introspection,…
In Lingua Mortua – Salon Des Refusés
…the truth is that In Lingua Mortua sounds more like a journey to an imaginary soundtrack made by King Crimson, Emperor, Mayhem, Insahn and John Zorn all playing together in ensemble mode.
Zebulon Kosted – Never Return Again
Massive and sprawling, yet somehow tightly connected through the kinetics of the music, Never Return Again is journey through the cosmos that is equally a journey through the psyche of the listener.
Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2019
The Top 50 release of 2019 according to Hayduke X.