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8.0
MOONSPELLFar From God
Moonspell sharpen gothic grandeur into a focused, memorable record whose strongest songs balance menace, melody and dramatic restraint.
5.0
DIMMU BORGIRGrand Serpent Rising
Grand Serpent Rising offers scale without urgency, burying flashes of menace beneath an overextended and emotionally distant design.
6.0
MORKMonolitt
Mork’s Monolitt carries old black-metal frost into a focused modern record, though its midsection occasionally settles into routine.
Immortal Finish Writing Eleventh Studio Album
Demonaz has completed the material for Immortal’s follow-up to 2023’s ‘War Against All’.
Dimmu Borgir Complete Long-Awaited New Album
Dimmu Borgir have finished recording, mixing and mastering the follow-up to 2018’s ‘Eonian’.
9.0
HATEBellum Regiis
Hate shape blackened death metal into a severe, immersive campaign of layered guitars, controlled pacing and unusually strong melodic architecture.
4.0
BEHEMOTHThe Shit Ov God
A polished but strangely inert record whose imposing production cannot disguise weak rhythmic ideas and inflated presentation.
6.0
MIDNIGHTHellish Expectations
Twenty-five minutes of filthy speed and blackened swagger: effective, immediate and too familiar to feel truly dangerous.
5.0
MOONSORROWVoimasta ja Kunniasta
Moonsorrow build an imposing pagan-metal landscape, but repetition and blunt transitions leave too much of the journey unresolved.
7.0
MOONSPELLHermitage
Hermitage trades Moonspell’s usual theatrical force for reflective weight, and the restraint often reveals more than spectacle would.
6.0
EMPERORAnthems To The Welkin At Dusk
More intricate and disciplined than its predecessor, though Emperor’s increased complexity sometimes suppresses the raw emotional force.
6.0
FINNTROLLVredesvävd
A compact, expertly made Finntroll record whose darker atmosphere is persuasive, though few songs become truly indispensable.
8.0
EMPERORIn The Nightside Eclipse
A landmark of symphonic black metal: vast, hostile and atmospheric, with grandeur outweighing its occasional murk.
8.0
MOONSORROWV : Hävitetty
Two monumental compositions turn repetition, atmosphere and blackened folk metal into a bleak journey of unusual scale and patience.
6.0
MESARTHIMIsolate
Mesarthim build a convincing cosmic atmosphere, but the album’s rhythmic sameness keeps its strongest ideas from fully escaping orbit.
6.0
FINNTROLLUr Jordens Djup
A darker, denser Finntroll record whose strongest moments emerge when its blackened atmosphere gives the folk hooks room to breathe.
6.0
BAL-SAGOTHThe Chthonic Chronicles
Bal-Sagoth’s final album is a frantic symphonic labyrinth: imaginative, absurdly ornate and occasionally buried beneath its own mythology.
10.0
DISSECTIONStorm Of The Light's Bane
Dissection fuse black-metal hostility with melodic precision on a landmark record whose atmosphere remains as lethal as its riffs.
8.0
FINNTROLLJaktens Tid
Finntroll’s breakthrough remains a riotous collision of black-metal bite, lurching folk melodies and gloriously unruly momentum.