Azrael – Obdurate / Unto Death
This disc is for all those Xasthur fans looking for a fix. Long dense songs, many better than ten minutes, with distant rumblings, subsonic screams, and guitars so distorted not only can you barely...
View ArticleAyat – Six Years of Dormant Hatred
As much as I love nasty scary black metal like Anaal Nathrakh, Xasthur, Dagon, Leviathan, Deathspell Omega and such, I have a hard time dealing with such music coming from the relatively peaceful...
View ArticleBlood Stained Dusk – Black Faith Inquisition
Enthrone Darkness Triumphant. Seen Through the Veils of Darkness. The Somberlain. In the Nightside Eclipse. If you already own or know these albums, then there’s nothing here that’s new or fresh – or...
View ArticleAVSKY recording new album!
Swedish black metal cult AVSKY are currently recording their third album (and second for MORIBUND RECORDS), to be titled Scorn. Reports guitarist/bassist AE, “We’re extremely satisfied with the result...
View ArticleDRAWN AND QUARTERED working on new DVD
Reports guitarist Kelly Kuciemba, DRAWN AND QUARTERED and MORIBUND RECORDS have been compiling the materials for the upcoming Assault Of Evil DVD. Odin has done a fantastic job with the layout, which...
View ArticleBAHIMIRON recording new album
Texan black metal cult BAHIMIRON are currently working on a new album for MORIBUND. Reports drummer Blaash, the band’s as-yet-untitled next album will be a combination of last year’s Southern Nihilizm...
View ArticleSATAN’S HOST studio update
Reports SATAN’S HOST vocalist Eli Elixir, “We are currently pre-producing all the trax for this new CD as with finishing up the writing process in our studio, Satan’s Grotto Chamber. Date is set for...
View ArticleLegendary Australian BM band NAZXUL sign to Moribund
It is with great pride + excitement that MORIBUND announces the signing of legendary Australian black metal band NAZXUL. The label will be releasing the band’s highly anticipated comeback album,...
View ArticleDodsferd – Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow
Right before my former writing job at Metal Maniacs went titties up, I had been given the assignment to do a couple of pages on Dodsferd, and the sole proprietor involved in the project, Wrath. (Just...
View ArticleCANIS DIRUS sign to MORIBUND, announce release date
Enigmatic black metal duo CANIS DIRUS have signed to MORIBUND RECORDS for the release of their debut album, A Somber Wind From a Distant Shore. The last burning embers of a dying autumnal twilight, the...
View ArticleMerrimack – Grey Rigorism
You can think of France’s Merrimack as a slightly known kult band because of their fifteen year existence and minimal output, or as a reborn band finding their voice only about five years back. All...
View ArticleBleeding Fist – Bestial Kruzifix666ion
Primal and unadulterated hate is what fuels Slovenia’s Bleeding Fist, as is evident upon hearing Bestial Kruzifix666ion, which — spelling aside — is a most excellent release. The four purveyors of...
View ArticleBrown Jenkins – Death Obsession
Don’t worry, I’ll keep this review only focused on the music…. The third and final album from despondent musician Umesh sees Brown Jenkins continue the more guitar based, droning approach of Angel...
View ArticleAzaghal -Teraphim
Not every Finnish band needs to emerge from a Nosferatu-style coma to write a good black metal record. Beherit might get the most attention because they dropped off the face of the earth for almost two...
View ArticleNocturnal Fear – Metal of Honor
It never fails. Every year when I put my year end list together and get it posted, an album comes along within days that knocks my socks off and could have easily made my top 10. Metal of Honor, the...
View ArticleAvsky – Scorn
The malignancy seems to have entered remission. The sound is clearer and cleaner, the guitar tone of voice is less threatening with a more expressive feel, mixing in bonafied solos, and the steady...
View ArticleHacavitz – Metztli Obscura
This album starts off with “to meet again,” I never met them the first time. Here is obscure metal from Mexico, care of Moribund, with a nicely detailed album cover that screams bash and bellow war...
View ArticleNadiwrath – Nihilistic Stench
Vocalist Wrath (Dodsferd) plus guitarist Nadir (Stellar Darkness), equals Greece’s Nadiwrath and their greasy, punk infused take on black metal. Nihilistic Stench has some pretty rollicking moments and...
View ArticlePsycho – Pain Addict Pigs
I enjoyed this one. How’s that for a bare bones, straight forward assessment devoid of all the fluff and metaphor of the typical critical review? But I’m sure I’ll still end up tossing in some...
View ArticleNecronoclast – Ashes
Ah! The tortuous sounds of one man black metal. Music so different it prefers a more shrouded and mysterious nature. But sometimes it comes out from the woodwork and deserves everyone’s undivided...
View ArticleBAHIMIRON set release date for new album!!!
American black metal outlaws BAHIMIRON are ready to unleash their wolves to the flesh of Christ with Rebel Hymns of Left Handed Terror this fall on MORIBUND RECORDS. Set for release on October 25th,...
View ArticleInfernal Legion – The Spear of Longinus
I wondered from time to time if Tacoma, WA’s Infernal Legion was ever going to release a follow up to 2005’s Your Prayers Mean Nothing, a slab of old school based, no-frills death metal that I...
View ArticleBahimiron – Rebel Hymns of Left Handed Terror
Generally, when I’m looking at porn, (I’d Like to think) I’m a fairly typical male. It’s your typical porn stuff, nothing to gross or degrading. But once in rare while I’ll be in the mood for some...
View ArticleAzaghal – Nemesis
Moribund has always been notorious/iconic for having a roster of bands that sound as though they record their albums with faulty walkie-talkies. It really makes me wonder how these bands connect the...
View ArticleCarnal Savagery – Worm Eaten
Carnal Savagery is a Swedish death metal band with ties to Cromlech, who like fellow Swedes Entrails and In Pain, were knocking around in the early 90s but never really got truly going other than a few...
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