Smyrtonos / Vagabond – Inhuman Blasphemy [Split Tape]

Artist:Smyrtonos / Vagabond Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Split Tape Year: 2025 After no less than five new releases in 2024, including the debut album, this year so far was remarkably quiet for Bulgarian Raw Black Metal act Smyrtonos (or Смъртонос), but…

Auriel’s Bow – Tamrielic Surrealism [EP]

Artist: Auriel’s Bow Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette EP Year: 2025 Not something I like to admit, but when I started the reviewing in the first years of the 00’s I used to be the youngest in every crew, now I am…

Anthropomantic – Blasphemous Decree

Artist: Anthropomantic Country: Bulgaria Label: Blasphemous Rumours Promotion Formats: Cassette Tape / CDR Year: 2025 Anthropomantic is the latest project of a 18-year old musician from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. Although ‘Blasphemous Decree’ is just the band’s debut album, it seems that Boyan…

Smyrtonos – Ceremonial Blaze [Demo]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Demo Year: 2024 Despite once being declared dead, Smyrtonos, Todorac’s main musical project, is more vibrant than ever before. Apart from a compilation of older material, we already saw him release an…

Smyrtonos – Cast Into Outer Darkness [EP]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2024 Hot on the heals of this project’s debut full-length, not even released a month ago, the ever restless Todorac returns with a new Smyrtonos recording. This time a new…

Smyrtonos – Misanthropic Flame Of Black Devotion

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2024 Back in 2022 I reviewed Smyrtonos’ last recordings, as Todorac had carried this project to its grave. Yet, that seemingly was for a short period only as last year the…

Psoglav – Cyrkovni Urodi [Demo]

Artist: Psoglav Country: Bulgaria Label: Diabolic Hate Propaganda Records Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2023 With new works by Todorac, the inspirer behind this new project, it is always worth taking a moment to delve into the background and meaning of…

Opiumortem – Мъртви души

Artist: Opiumortem Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital Year: 2023 After two demos, which were recently compiled onto one tape and released through Narbentage Produktionen, Opiumortem now returns with a full-length album. Apparently it was recorded in the span of…

Opiumortem – Demo 1+2 [Compilation]

Artist: Opiumortem Country: Bulgaria Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Cassette Tape Year: 2022 Bulgaria’s Opiumortem’s both demos were rather hard to get, in fact, only the first one, entitled ‘Lethargia’ was released on a very small self-released run of cassette tapes.…

Opiumortem – Opiumortem [Demo]

Artist: Opiumortem Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 This self-titled demo is the follow-up of the ‘Lethargia’-demo tape that was released last summer. That short little demo had three tracks of interesting and dismal Lo-Fi Black Metal…

Smyrtonos – Endless Fury [Demo]

Artist: Smyrtonos Country: Bulgaria Label: Narbentage Produktionen Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 ‘Endless Fury’ is Smyrtonos’ swansong as it was released posthumously after the project’s disbanding last summer. At least, Todorac had it released digitally only 4 days prior throwing…

Opiumortem – Lethargia [Demo]

Artist: Opiumortem Country: Bulgaria Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2022 From Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria comes this one-man act Opiumortem, run by someone who goes under the name of Todorac who is also active in a few other…