“[…] the rags of a poor man, who had died of the plague, being cast out into the […]
mortuary drape
“Gibst du dem Teufel deinen kleinen finger, nimmt er deine ganze hand.” And what more then, do we […]
Luciferian incantations echo through our scum-incensed crypt, an inverted skull delivered fire by a spittle-flecking naming and channeled […]
“The man who is enslaved by his passions or worldly prejudices can be initiated in no wise; he […]
As we mentally stack the remains of one thousand unnamed youth’s corpses in tally of yet another horrifying […]
The horror of describing the traditions of Italy’s cathedralesque and oft psychedelic brand of prog-adjacent doom metal uprising […]
“The dweller in the shades, at whose approach / E’en the dogs quake, as on she moves through […]
The second wave of black metal is perhaps too well-known for its perceived godhead, the Norse severity that’d […]
The equidistant longing of crypt and cosmos — Life is a battery of dire warnings heeded by a […]
The known, the common, the cheap and instantaneously familiar are a plague for the overstimulated mind as prosopagnosic […]
Bones and tools define thousands of years of European history as striated refuse and cemeterial grime bears deep […]
Blazing an energetic trail from kid-thrashing madness in the late 2000’s (Asphyxer) towards occult Italian doom metal worship […]
The ancient Greek people saw the Gods within every aspect of daily life, an existence rife with superstition […]
Wigilia dnia św. Łucji, noc czarownic (‘the night of the witches on the eve of St. Lucia) is […]
Italian death metal comes without any true expectations of style, at least not on the level of Swedish […]