Evoken – Mendacium

Artist: Evoken Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 I vividly remember my first brush with Evoken. It was late 2002, and my friends and I had called for the help of a local Doom Metal…

Ancient Death – Ego Dissolution

Artist: Ancient Death Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2025 After the release of ‘Sacred Vessel’, Ancient Death’s debut EP, there were lots of plans. This rather young American Death Metal band had its hopes…

Reeking Aura – Fires In Deep Frost [EP]

Artist: Reeking Aura Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: Digital EP Year: 2025 ‘Blood And Bonemeal’, Reeking Aura’s 2022-released debut album was a thoroughly satisfying and joyous ride for anyone who has a knack for something else than your…

Spectral Wound – Songs of Blood and Mire

Artist: Spectral WoundCountry: CanadaLabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2024 It’s already been three years since Spectral Wound unleashed ‘A Diabolic Thirst’ upon the world, the sophomore record of the band filled with blistering Canadian Black…

Cruciamentum – Obsidian Refractions

Artist: Cruciamentum Country: United Kingdom / USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette Tape / CD Year: 2023 Six long years since the band’s last sign of life and even eight years after the release of the debut…

Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars

Artist: Left Cross Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 After a couple of EP’s and a self-released debut album, the American Death Metal band Left Cross got picked up by the revered Profound Lore…

Fabricant – Drudge To The Thicket

Artist: Fabricant Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2023 After a demo in 2010 and a split CD with Apocryphon in 2013, things got awfully quiet around this American Death Metal band.…

Krieg – Ruiner

Artist: Krieg Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Krieg’s heady musical career is one characterised by an impressive multitude when it comes to both its equally staggering list of (mostly) ex-band members and the…

Spirit Possession – Of the Sign…

Artist: Spirit Possession Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2023 Take Black Metal with a strong Heavy Metal riff base that features a cacophony of sliding and tapping guitar notes best known to Black Metal…

Impetuous Ritual – Iniquitous Barbarik Synthesis

Artist: Impetuous RitualCountry: AustraliaLabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / CDYear: 2023 It was 2009’s ‘Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence’, initially released by Profound Lore Records on CD and later in 2011 on vinyl by Blood Harvest, that put Australia’s Impetuous…

Reeking Aura – Blood And Bonemeal

Artist: Reeking Aura Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / CD Year: 2022 After their self-released 2020 EP ‘Beneath The Canopy Of Compost’, it was to be expected that New York-based Death Metal band Reeking Aura would come…

Haunter – Discarnate Ails

Artist: Haunter Country: USA Label: Profound Lore Records Formats: LP / Cassette tape / CD Year: 2022 Though Haunter has been around for about a decade now, they have remained under my radar up to this last album, ‘Discarnate Ails’.…

Spectral Wound – A Diabolic Thirst

Artist: Spectral WoundCountry: CanadaLabel: Les Fleurs du Mal Productions / Profound Lore RecordsFormats: LP / Cassette tape / CDYear: 2021 The star of Montréal’s Spectral Wound quickly rose after the release of their well-received sophomore album `Infernal Decadence’ and intense…

Cobalt – Landfill Breastmilk Beast [EP]

Artist: CobaltCountry: USALabel: Profound Lore RecordsFormats: CD EPYear: 2008 Last year’s “Eater Of Birds”-album was very well received by press and public alike, and was pretty much a surprise to both parties. The well crafted black metal fits well in…