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DEATHWINDS REVIEW
DEATHWINDS - ...TOWARDS DOOM... Finally giving us a full-length after much deliberation, Canada's Deathwinds fit into the uncategorizable style of metal that can best be described as unhinged with all things death, black, thrash, and even punk mishmashed together to create the ultimate hellscape. And seemingly pissed off beyond belief, they sure do know how exactly to go straight for the jugular with their weaponized audial outbursts! Slow and steady starts "The Burning Path"
Michael Hojjatie
Oct 221 min read
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DEATHAMMER REVIEW
DEATHAMMER - CRIMSON DAWN Raging for nearly two decades now, Norway's Deathammer spew the nastiest form of ungodly thrash obsessed with...
Michael Hojjatie
Aug 311 min read
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HEXELLA REVIEW
HEXELLA - THE ANCIENT GAPING MOUTH After dirty teases with demos and a split with like-minded fellow Texans Wülfskol, Hexella (and that's...
Michael Hojjatie
Jul 222 min read
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BASTALAK REVIEW
BASTALAK - BLOOD OF ZAGROS Without a demarcated homeland and of Kurdish heritage, newcomer Bastalak is an dedicating their passion for...
Michael Hojjatie
Jul 42 min read
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CHAMBER OF MIRRORS REVIEW
CHAMBER OF MIRRORS - TALES OF BLOOD Now with a third full-length, one-man California black metal act Chamber of Mirrors is the brainchild...
Michael Hojjatie
Jun 102 min read
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MARTORIATOR REVIEW
MARTORIATOR -Â BLOODPAINTED VISIONS OF PERPETUAL CONFLICT Newcomers to the realm of warmongering metal madness, the deadly duo of...
Michael Hojjatie
May 112 min read
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SIJJIN REVIEW
SIJJIN - HELLJJIN COMBAT Formed out of the ashes of German doomy death act Necros Christos, Sijjin base the majority of their themes...
Michael Hojjatie
Apr 292 min read
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GENOCIDAL RITES REVIEW
GENOCIDAL RITES - UPHEAVEL OF SUBSERVIENT ABRAHAMIC LAW White. Black. Red. The tell-all trifecta of when you can comfortably predict what...
Michael Hojjatie
Apr 172 min read
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PISSGRAVE REVIEW
PISSGRAVE - MALIGNANT WORTHLESSNESS Known as much for their manaically unrelenting approach to blackened death metal as their lust for...
Michael Hojjatie
Feb 232 min read
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NECROMANIAC REVIEW
NECROMANIAC - SCIOMANCY, MALEDICTION & RITES ABOMINABLE With ten years now passing since their intial demo received rave reviews from the...
Michael Hojjatie
Jan 252 min read
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NAKED WHIPPER REVIEW
NAKED WHIPPER - CHAPEL DEFILEMENT Nobody, outside of perhaps a handful of people who were in the know, expected to hear that Naked...
Michael Hojjatie
Jan 122 min read
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REUBEN CHRISTOPHER JORDAN INTERVIEW
SHRIEKS AND STARES OF UNKNOWN ORIGINS: 12 QUESTIONS FOR REUBEN CHRISTOPHER JORDAN BY MICHAEL M. HOJJATIE FOR VIA OMEGA The busy body that...
Michael Hojjatie
Jan 235 min read
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OLD WAINDS REVIEW
OLD WAINDS - STORMHEART Finally breaking a decade of silence, Russia's Old Wainds emerge from the frozen tundra of their homeland to...
Michael Hojjatie
Dec 19, 20242 min read
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AETHYRVOROUS REVIEW
AETHYRVOROUS - AKEPHALIC PALINGENESIS New Zealand underground label Wrought Material takes an extremely minimalist approach to its...
Michael Hojjatie
Nov 19, 20242 min read
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ARBOR REVIEW
ARBOR - EVENTIDE PRIMITIVISM The relatively new American label Blood and Crescent Productions has made quite the impact with its handful...
Michael Hojjatie
Nov 5, 20242 min read
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VENGEANCE HORDE REVIEW
VENGEANCE HORDE - SURGING VENGEANCE A two-song EP by a mysterious and physically imposing figure known as J.K. came out in 2022 and had...
Michael Hojjatie
Oct 15, 20242 min read
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SPITE REVIEW
SPITE - THE THIRD TEMPLE Spite has been a solo project of an entity who goes by Salpsan, and although this foray my be shrouded in an...
Michael Hojjatie
Sep 8, 20242 min read
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TOTURERS' LOBBY - REVIEW
TORTURERS' LOBBY - DEADENED NERVES After a handful of demos with minimalist presentation, the debut from Torturers' Lobby is a bizarre,...
Michael Hojjatie
Sep 8, 20241 min read
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Galleri Fjalar - new exhibition
Galleri Fjalar - Bergen
viaomegamagazine
Jul 30, 20242 min read
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MAYHEMIC REVIEW
MAYHEMIC - TOBA At last, after anything but a full-length being in their discography, we have one from Chile's Mayhemic, and ode to the...
Michael Hojjatie
Jul 29, 20242 min read
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