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RUTTOKOSMOS are one of the great “what if?”s of Finnish black metal. The band formed sometime in 2003 and released the five-song Ja minä näin kuoleman demo in 2006 and then the six-song Kärsimys demo a year later. Afterward, nothing was heard from RUTTOKOSMOS ever again. Only one member concurrently played in Divina Inferis, and the other two members either disappeared and played pseudonymously in other bands.

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25th anniversary reissue on vinyl for the mythic debut of paraguayan Black Metal outfit Sabaoth from 1996.

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The cul album from 1992 available again on LP.

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The cul album from 1991 available again on LP.

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With this new EP SAMMAS’ EQUINOX is not straying far from the path, they have set on since their formation. “Maailmantaonta” introduces slightly more meditative and “progressive” elements, but the songs from SAMMAS’ EQUINOX forge remain fiery and crackling, growing only darker and rawer.

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In darkest dirge crooned across an undercrypt of desolate inferno reigns that hallowed entity of power penance known only by arch herald of SANCTUM SATHANAS who, in allegiance with the malevolent Inferna Profundus Records, have transmogrified their debut full-length incantation by grand grim title of “Into the Eternal Satanic Damnation”. In observance of the morningstar of dawn decadence, Lucifer, SANCTUM SATHANAS have forged a true incantation of Raw Black Metal brutality in service to His name and shining unlight; unleashing an orthodox inflection of melancholic savagery across a variety of eclectic and densely composed spells, each more engrossing in ennui than that which came before. It is through Into the Eternal Satanic Damnation that SANCTUM SATHANAS preaches forth their most heretical grimoire of ruin to date, coagulating an alchemical concoction of pure blasphemy steeped in the true ways of old and celebrating all that is infernal and daemonic in essence.

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Returning from their Icy sojourn, SARGEIST delivers the next Pinnacle of Grim Black-Metal De-evolution. “Catastrophic yet catatonic, “Disciple of…..” surges forward like a blackened bayonet while clutching you in tones of merciless, iniquity. Excellent, putrid black metal.

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Returning from their Icy sojourn, SARGEIST delivers the next Pinnacle of Grim Black-Metal De-evolution. “Catastrophic yet catatonic, “Disciple of…..” surges forward like a blackened bayonet while clutching you in tones of merciless, iniquity. Excellent, putrid black metal.

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This is a more mature release musically. The song structures have come a long way since Satanic Black Devotion, but still maintain everything this band is known for. There is definitely more of the signature intertwining guitar work, that weaves in and out amongst the chaos of the drums and ghastly vocals. It’s that guitar work that takes the listener for an emotional roller coaster, especially on songs like “Burning Voice of Adoration”, which has the ability to stir up absolute sadness and sorrow.

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Grim Nihlistic Black Metal. This is a cold as death, Black Metal masterpiece!! Featuring members of HORNA & BEHEXEN, this is the Finnish BM supergroup! Perhaps the coldest release since DARKTHRONE’s “Under A Funeral Moon”! The riffing is fast, melodic, and in pure Finnish/Norwegian black metal roots heritage.

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And so the battle continues with Aamongandr, SATANIC WARMASTER’s first studio full-length since 2014’s acclaimed Fimbulwinter. Indeed, where that album evinced a diversity of songcraft and, more so, a concertedly polished aspect that majestically made that obsidian gleam, Aamongandr explores that duality with equally compelling results. In fact, with the album wasting no time in kicking into high gear, SATANIC WARMASTER sounds more urgent than ever – and yet, here is where the band’s epic side is also revealed in full. Cryogenic and caressing is its melodicism, in the glare of burning churches, and deftly dusted with subtle synths that heighten the mysticism at the heart of the SW sound, Aamongandr’s six songs charge forth with the grim grandiosity of mighty steeds; not for nothing is one of the album’s highlights titled “Duke’s Ride (Ride of the Spectral Hooves).” All told, this sixth long-form statement of intent is immediately recognizable as SATANIC WARMASTER but irrevocably proves that its creator’s imagination continues to flow as infinitely as the Atlantean depths.

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New album, completely performed and recorded/mixed by Werwolf, created in total isolation between 2021 and 2024. Exultation of Cruelty brings forth a wintry breath reminding of the rising Black Metal underground of the early 2000s, and the original barbaric strength of Satanic Warmaster when “Finnish Black Metal” bullshit of today didn’t exist.