Flames – Resurgence
Artist: Flames Country: Greece Label: No Remorse Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 When it comes to the Greek metal scene, one of the earliest and most important bands that helped shape the lively scene that we know today,…
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
The Whispering Darkness
Tales From The Underground
Flames – Rehearsal EP 2022
Artist: Flames Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Hot on the heals of their first album in over a quarter of a century, the Greek Thrash Metallers of Flames self-released this 2-track rehearsal EP. So, people who…
Caedes Cruenta – Of Ritual Necrophagia And Mysterious Ghoul Cults
Artist: Caedes CruentaCountry: GreeceLabel: Helter Skelter RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 The Greek Black Metal scene has never been as flooded by bands and releases as the Norwegian or Swedish scenes. Those Scandinavian scenes had so many…
Nightfall – In The Temple Of Ishtar [EP]
Artist: Nightfall Country: Greece Label: Season Of Mist Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 Last summer the Greek Melodic Black/Death Metal band released this digital 2-track EP which they recorded live at the Gagarin Club in Athens in November 2021. Both…
Nightfall – At Night We Prey
Artist: Nightfall Country: Greece Label: Season Of Mist Formats: LP / CD Year: 2021 Within the enigmatic Greek Black Metal scene Nightfall has always been a little of an outcast, both in terms of personnel as in the way they…
Ectoplasma – Inferna Kabbalah
Artist: EctoplasmaCountry: GreeceLabel: Memento Mori / Rotted Life RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Having been founded exactly ten years ago, Ectoplasma from Greece, have been quite an active band. They have managed to crank out quite a…
Varathron – Glorification Under The Latin Moon
Artist: VarathronCountry: GreeceLabel: Agonia RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2020 In its very lengthy career, Greek forebearers of the so much beloved Hellenic Black Metal sound, Varathron, never released a live album before. So, when the band embarked on a trip…
Septicflesh – Modern Primitve
Artist: Septicflesh Country: Greece Label: Chaos Reigns / Nuclear Blast / Shinigami Records / Ward Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2022 When the band fell apart in 2003 and arose again four years later, they not…
Zemial – To Slay With Silent Dagger [EP]
Artist: ZemialCountry: GreeceLabel: Self-releasedFormats: Digital EPYear: 2022 Archon Vorskaath has led his brainchild Zemial through many years of musical transitions and past many great releases. On many occasions, the enigmatic act has managed to surprise fans and critics alike. Looking…
Katavasia – Invoking The Spirit Of Doom [EP]
Artist: Katavasia Country: Greece Label: Iron Bonehead Records Formats: 7″ EP Year: 2022 Katavasia was formed in 2014 by Varathron mastermind Stefanos ‘Necroabyssious’ Karasavvas, undoubtedly one of the founding fathers of the famous Hellenic Black Metal sound. And although not…
Kawir – Nyxtos Teletisin [Compilation]
Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Pagan Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 When talking about Greek Black Metal, the conversations will most likely be first about Rotting Christ, Varathron, Septicflesh, Thou Art Lord and Necromantia, only then about the…
Embrace Of Thorns – Entropy Dynamics
Artist: Embrace Of ThornsCountry: GreeceLabel: Nuclear Winter RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 It was at the German Doom Shall Rise festival (of all places), sometime in the mid-00’s, that I first heard of Embrace Of Thorns. Walking…
Embrace Of Thorns – A Night Of Promethean Blasphemy
Artist: Embrace Of ThornsCountry: GreeceLabel: Self-ReleasedFormats: DigitalYear: 2022 Right in between ‘The Pantheon I’ 7″ EP (Iron Bonehead Productions) and the just released new album, ‘Entropy Dynamics’ (Nuclear Winter Records), Embrace Of Thorns came up with a self-released studio rehearsal…
Necrohell – Ravishing Funerals
Artist: Necrohell Country: Greece Label: Christhunt Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Greek Black Metal has always had a special place in the scene. Without bringing up the widely known history and naming the celebrated bands once again, we can safely…
Thou Art Lord – Daemoniorum [EP]
Artist: Thou Art LordCountry: GreeceLabel: The Circle MusicFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2022 Fans of Greek Black Metal will all have a soft spot for Thou Art Lord, one of the founders of the Greek Black Metal scene and partly responsible for…
Necromantical Invocation – Dogme Et Rituel De La Haute Magie [Demo / Re-Release]
Artist: Necromantical Invocation Country: United Kingdom Label: Helter Skelter Productions / Medieval Prophecy Records / Regain Records / Zombi Danz Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2021 Despite the fact that Necromantical Invocation saw the light of…
Αχεροντας – Malocchio - The Seven Tongues Of Δαημων
Artist: Acherontas (Αχεροντας)Country: GreeceLabel: Black Hearts Records / III Damnation Productions / Zazen SoundsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2022 Despite Worship/Stutthof not being considered a direct predecessor of Acherontas by mastermind Acherontass, the roots of this prolific Greek…
Lunar Spells – Demise Of Heaven
Artist: Lunar Spells Country: Greece Label: Northern Silence Productions Formats: CD Year: 2022 Anyone who follows the Black Metal scene a bit will have noticed that Melodic or Symphonic Black Metal is on the rise and is being widely embraced…
Opus Magorum – Opus Magorum [Demo / Re-Release]
Artist: Opus Magorum Country: Greece Label: Inferna Profundus Records Formats: LP Year: 2022 This Greek Black Metal band Opus Magorum has been around for over 20 years with its formation in 2001. But don’t feel embarrassed if you haven’t heard…
Serpent Noir / Sargeist – Transcendental Black Magic [Split]
Artist: Serpent Noir / SargeistCountry: Greece / FinlandLabel: W.T.C. ProductionsFormats: Split LP / Split CDYear: 2022 While split releases can be stellar, they often lack a sense of coherence when two bands just do their thing on their respective sides…
Kawir – Γιγαντομαχία (War Of The Giants) [EP]
Artist: Kawir Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Digital EP Year: 2022 This (so far) digital-only EP was released with a special purpose. Before we dive into the musical content of the EP, it might be good to also pay attention…
Varathron / Ungod – Apocalyptic Mysticism [Split]
Artist: Varathron / UngodCountry: Greece / GermanyLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2022 Both Greek Varathron and German Ungod have been around for over three decades in the Black Metal scene and each of them have a rich history…
Embrace Of Thorns – The Pantheon I [EP]
Artist: Embrace Of ThornsCountry: GreeceLabel: Iron Bonehead ProductionsFormats: 7″ EPYear: 2022 Quite out of the blue comes this nice 7” EP from these Greek veterans with a career spanning over two decades already. During this long career they have delivered…
Necrovorous – “While others were rocking out with “Far Beyond Driven”, I was buying Sodom, Exciter and Sadus cassettes”
Necrovorous’ last album, “Plains Of Decay”, will have its fifth birthday this year and not much has been heard since. But, that is not much to be worried about, says guitar player and vocalist K. Devilpig. They are just very…
Yoth Iria – As the Flame Withers
Artist: Yoth IriaCountry: GreeceLabel: Pagan RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 Though Yoth Iria introduced themselves with a great EP (released on 10” and 12” vinyl formats, as well as on CD and cassette) and a split 7”…
Nocturnal Vomit / Bestial Raids – Pandemonic Outburst Of Impious Doom [Split 7″ EP]
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit / Bestial RaidsCountry: Greece / PolandLabel: Morbid Moon RecordsFormats: Split 7″ EPYear: 2006 Underground force Morbid Moon Records comes forth with a great split 7” EP featuring two of the best underground metal acts of today, Greek…
Rotting Christ – Theogonia
Artist: Rotting Christ Country: Greece Label: Season Of Mist Formats: CD Year: 2007 Rotting Christ is really a band on its return, after a period of releases that were received not quite as good as the bands’ classics. With the…
Varathron – “The reign of the crow, the reign of darkness, the reign of Satan!”
It took the band seven goddamn years to come back with a new album, and now its out I can’t conclude anything else than that it is an album to be proud of. An album, that is rather different than…
Nocturnal Vomit – Infernal Ascension Of The Gods [Demo]
Artist: Nocturnal Vomit Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2003 Nocturnal Vomit is some kind of a strange band. I’m not entirely sure, but the band is said to have its roots in Australia, where it was founded…
Rotting Christ – Sanctus Diavolos
Artist: Rotting Christ Country: Greece Label: Century Media Formats: CD Year: 2004 Well, what can I say that haven’t been said before about the master of the Greek sound? Not too much? After a while of playing doomy atmospheric metal…
Vampire Hall – Demo 2003
Artist: Vampire Hall Country: Greece Label: Self-Released Formats: Demo Tape Year: 2003 While browsing around in the guestbook of Vampire-Magazine I found this band Vampire Hall. A band from Greece, this country already convinced me (and with me the rest…
Various Artists – ISO666 Releases: 33 Months Label Sampler
Artist: Various Artists Country: international Label: ISO666 Formats: CD Year: 2003 A compilation from the Greek ISO666 label. A very interesting collection of tracks by bands from the ISO stables. Varying within the more extreme genres of the metal spectrum.…
Enshadowed – Intensity
Artist: EnshadowedCountry: GreeceLabel: Black Lotus RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2003 Just after I reviewed their first CD I already have the second album of Enshadowed in my hands. And even before I read the biography or listened to any of the music…
Enshadowed – Messengers Of The Darkest Dawn
Artist: EnshadowedCountry: GreeceLabel: Black Lotus RecordsFormats: CDYear: 2002 Well, this CD was one of the first albums I got to review. And it took that long to get it online because it as a bit of a a pain in…