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Review: Non Est Deus – Blessings and Curses (2026)
On Blessings and Curses, Noise builds Non Est Deus around prayers and biblical citations rather than generic anti-religious provocation. The fifth album is strongest when scripture and criticism remain in...
Review: The Ruins of Beverast – Tempelschlaf (2026)
Twenty-three years into one of extreme metal's most uncompromising discographies, The Ruins of Beverast deliver Tempelschlaf: seven tracks of blackened doom that move closer to the live stage than anything...
Review: Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern (2025)
Der Weg einer Freiheit turn inward on their sixth album, using blast-beat violence, piano, silence, and recurring images of suffering and renewal. Innern means “inward,” not “to remember,” and the...
The Voice of Madness: Ten Bethlehem Songs Across the Eras
Bethlehem always stood as a border project. Their debut LP Dark Metal in 1994 was already a declaration of difference, a refusal to settle into black metal’s tropes or doom’s...
Playlist Update 18.7.2025: Soliloquium; Morast; Veil Of Conspiracy
Revisiting Ahab – The Boats of the Glen Carrig (2015)
Ahab did not simply place William Hope Hodgson's 1907 sea-horror novel over prewritten funeral doom. The band discarded material that no longer fit, rebuilt the album together in rehearsal, and...