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A brand-new entity from Finland's ever-fertile black metal underground, KRIEGZEIT are as nasty and twisted as the warfare fro, but then upend familiarity with an alternately agonizing / sublime angularity that somehow retains the latent catchiness of classic headbanging black metal. However, do not linger under the assumption that Hateworship is some type of "party" black metal record; no, KRIEGZEIT are deadly serious in their devotion to darkness and the taboo, but likewise do they retain a devilish sense of mischief. All that's writ large - and FILTHILY - across the wild & wasted Hateworship. Put another way, take one look at the psychedelic-nightmare cover art and you should know what KRIEGZEIT sound like.
CORAXUL hail from the ever-fertile Finnish black metal underground. Although brand-new in name, the quartet's members hail from the well-regarded likes of Licht des Urteils, Curse Upon a Prayer, and labelmates SACRIFICIUM CARMEN and RIIVAUS. Staunchly traditional, expect no grand deviations from the timeless Finnish black metal archetype on the band's debut full-length, Vihavirsiä Aamunkoin - but within that staunch traditionalism lies a bounty of mysticism and melody. CORAXUL thus combines Satan worship, nature glorification, and traditional Finnish folklore in the vein of Finnish national poet Eino Leino, and that melancholic mélange bears bitter fruit across the album's taut-yet-expansive 40-minute runtime. It's warmly familiar but freezingly cold as quintessential Finnish black metal gets, fondly recalling the late/great likes of Noenum, Vitsaus, and Prevalent Resistance rather than the usual suspects. But with the blanching passion and palpable physicality on display across Vihavirsiä Aamunkoin, CORAXUL are indeed their own masters. Besides, black metal doesn't need to "be" anything more than it already is.
When FLAGG burst from the void in June 2020 with their debut album, Nothing But Death, the veil of secrecy had yet to be lifted. Which mattered not, when presented with black metal of such sterling quality: both ancient and ageless, old yet new. Their attack was immediately intense, exhibiting a restlessness that's roiling and raging, always moving but always with a target in sight. Eventually, it was revealed that FLAGG hailed from Finland and was the work of selfsame multi-instrumentalist Flagg, who was a part of reanimated old Finnish cult Annihilatus, and vocalist Tyrant, whose hordes include the esteemed likes of MALUM, Infernarium, and Kalmankantaja.
With that lineup thus set, FLAGG return little more than a year later with their second full-length, Cosmic Chaos Manifest. An immediately harsher spin than its not-inconsiderable predecessor, Cosmic Chaos Manifest duly lives up to its title through a shapeshifting style of ultraviolence that retains a unique gleam, one that's paradoxically grittier for all its seemingly on-the-surface clarity. As ever, FLAGG's songwriting strikes true through a skillful balance between burning fire and nightsky melodicism, here actually sounding more richly 1990s - specifically, the oft-overlooked late '90s - than the comparatively modernist grime of Nothing But Death. But, just like that bolt-from-the-blue debut, FLAGG understand archaic expressions, the Old Language of Black Metal, where medieval atmosphere and ghostly portent informed even the most straightforward forms, rendering an air of aristocracy to that of belligerent bravado; now, they're just rendered in more restless, dizzying form.
180g vinyl, heavy 405gsm covers, lyrics sheet
black wax LP lim. 250
Finnish Black Metal Madness!
2XLP
A compilation of songs from the releases:
Kriegserklärung MLP
Paukenschlag/Heimkehr Split LP with Kommandant
Ich hatt einen Kameraden Split with 1914
1914 / 1939 Split LP with Flak
Downcross - To the Last Sunset at the gates of collapse 12" LP
lim. 200 black wax
comes with 1 Inserts
Atmospheric Black Metal from Finland! New project of the October Falls mastermind.
Cumbrian Black Metal
4panel Digisleeve
+ Cumbrian Black Metal Sampler CD + Sticker
Cumbrian Black Metal
4panel Digisleeve
+ Cumbrian Black Metal Sampler CD + Sticker
Literally massive, Impakt comprises four songs in 76 minutes, each one as epic and engrossing as the last
SARKRISTA's highly anticipated third album on black vinyl
highly anticipated second album in CD format
