Formed in that cursed year of 2020, SCHREIGARM are a unique entry into the oft-overlooked but always-vital Teutonic black metal scene: though based in Germany, both members are actually Ukrainian. Such a mixture surely results in a sound that mixes both the austere melodicism of the nowadays Teutonic school and the stargazing mysticism endemic of the Ukrainian form throughout the years. And if 2023's The Mysteries of Fate debut was unjustly underappreciated, then SCHREIGARM's subsequent Mara Comes and Darkness Shall Reign should doubtlessly right this injustice.
REVENGE continue to forge a solitary path. The Canadian chaos veterans once again defy what is considered modern black metal. J. Read and his long-standing partner Vermin build an impenetrable wall of frenzied guitars and scum decapitating bass on their seventh album. ‘Violation.Strife.Abominate’ is a 12-song crown of elitism atop the band’s 25-year history of dominating the outer fringes of the black metal sphere.
Polish Black Metal. With Kataxu, Gontyna Kry, Iron Tyrant members. Reissue of the debut EP from 2004 on digipack CD. 4-panel digipack CD with 12 pages booklet.
Canadian Black Metal Chaos machine REVENGE has announced a follow-up strike for 2020 in the form of a re-issue of their ‘Attack.Blood.Revenge‘ EP with bonus tracks.With the chimes of death ringing in their 20th year in 2020, alongside the prominence that REVENGE has earned releasing multiple albums and EP‘s over the past two decades, it seems fitting to re-release the debut EP that declared to the world the band‘s intentions of being a solitary black mist of death that smothers the trends tainting the black metal underground.