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Heilung-Ofnir

8.4
Danish collective Heilung is best described as an evil union between the Dutch practitioners of pagan, Omnia and the Scandinavian Wardruna, they are neither as gung-ho fun as the former nor as deadly serious as the latter.
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12/05/2018 by

Heilung-Lifa

8.2
Do you remember that movie from the nineties with Antonio Banderas, The Thirteenth Warrior? Ever wondered what happened to the Wendol after the vikings slew their leader and they retreated to their caves?
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12/05/2018 by

Ihsahn – Amr

9
With all the celebration around the 20th anniversary of Emperor’s magnum opus ‘ Anthems of the Welkins at Dusk’ you might almost be forgiven for forgetting that Ihsahn has been running a very successful solo career for more than a decade.
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03/05/2018 by

Voices – Frightened

8.6
‘Frightened’ is an altogether different beast from the satanic blackened death that Akercocke is known for, although not particularly more optimistic.
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19/04/2018 by

Tengil – shouldhavebeens

7
After a noisy instrumental interlude the music shifts towards a more shoegazy style that is not a million miles away from My Bloody Valentine or closer to home, Alcest, if you’d like.
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12/04/2018 by

Crone – Godspeed

7.2
Their full length was four years in the making and marks a significant progress over their initial EP ‘ Gehenna’, which was a bold foray into a particularly bleak style of progressive rock that took its cues from both Pink Floyd as the classic wave bands from the eighties
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12/04/2018 by

Paradise Lost – Host (Remastered)

8.6
After shattering their own status as grandmasters of gothic doom a few years earlier with the groundbreaking, yet unorthodox ‘One Second’, they upped the ante and did away with their metal pedigree altogether on the daring, yet almost unanimously scorned ‘Host’.
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31/03/2018 by