"Unbound" by Sargeist

Black Metal/Melodic Black Metal from Finland.

Released Date October 2018.

"...‘Unbound’ is both important and imposing as a black metal album in 2018 for its undeniable melodic scent and violently classic expression. It is poignant reminder of the effective thrust and utter nihilistic furor that black metal holds without complication or feigned modernism. Beyond what Sargeist represent in black metal’s torrid landscape of indifference and parody ‘Unbound’ is a vital and energetic guitar album that channels and distills the undying will of man to destroy everything vital for his existence and for that reason I have to highly recommend it. The experience and composition are both undeniably brilliant..." (by Grizzly Butts Review)
https://grizzlybutts.com/2018/10/25/sargeist-unbound-2018-review/

Digital and CD (W.T. C. Productions, Bandcamp)
https://wtcproductions.bandcamp.com/album/unbound

https://www.facebook.com/thetruesargeist/

"Rinascita" by Homselvareg

Black Metal from Italy.

Released October 2018.

This North Italian horde have unleashed their third full length album "Rinascita", a very powerful an impressive misanthropic assault of blasting drum work and fast ferocious guitar riffs in hand with great melodies and atmospheres. A brilliant release not to be missed.

Band Members:
Plague - Voice
Bazzy Mogan - Guitar
Gerion - Bass
Nioin - Drum
Vestigian - Guitar

Digital and CD (Throats Productions, Bandcamp)
https://throatsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/rinascita

https://www.facebook.com/homselvareg?__tn__=*s-R

"F.E.R.T." by Baise Ma Hache

Black metal band from Savoie, French alpes.

Frappez, Entrez, Rompez Tout!!! (Hit, Enter, Break All) with their vicious war anthems!

Release Date September 2018.

Band Members:
Thorwald (Singer & lyrics)
Jon (all instruments)

Digital and CD Digipack (Baise Ma Hache, Bandcamp and Hammerbolt Productions)
https://bmhdivision.bandcamp.com/album/f-e-r-t
https://www.hammerbolt.pl/product/baise-ma-hache-f-e-r-t-digibook-cd

https://www.facebook.com/BaiseMaHache/

"Exitium" by Primaire

Raw Black Metal from Germany.

Primaire is a new formation of veterans from Bavaria (featuring members of Anencephaly, HateCult of the Cunt, Lower Than Zero, Ysbryd and Blutwald) who just unleashed this year their debut album "Exitium" on  2nd-October-2018. What first grabbed my attention was the great art-cover of the album created by Astaroth Cerebre and it didn't disappoint when I hit the play. Primaire plays traditional raw black metal, fierce and powerful with dynamic catchy riffs but also with excellent dark atmospheres and melodies the most elitists will approve off. Their themes are based on anti-religion, death and hate. The only negative is their tracks are perhaps a bit short but on the bright side it won't bore you and is what makes you crave for more!

Recorded between January and March 2018 at Khold Hell Studios Augsburg
Music and Lyrics by Gestalt | Omega written by Nihil
Artwork by Astaroth Cerebre | Logo by Pest Designs
Photo by H. Photography

Line up:
Nihil - Guitars
Kadaver - Drums
Gestalt - Guitars
Khaos - Bass
Isengrin - Vocals


Digital format/merchandise (Primaire, Bandcamp)
https://primaire.bandcamp.com/releases

https://www.facebook.com/primaireblackmetal/

"Bàrdachd Cogaidh" by BELLICISTE

Black Metal from New Zealand (band currently resides in Slovakia or Serbia not sure).

Released 22 September 2018.

"Corrosive black METAL returns!! The second album by BELLICISTE - the sole creation of Krigeist (BARSHASKETH, BRON). Amid tales of war, honour and Germanic, Māori and Celtic mythology, BELLICISTE deliver blistering raw metal; a ceaseless onslaught of killer riffs!" (Todestrieb Records)

"Bàrdachd Cogaidh" presents old styled, furious and hateful Black Metal with a slashing sound and with eight black venomous psalms that are both summoning a devastating aura and in the same time keeping the material floating with raw sombre melancholies and infinite paralyzing darkness. (Sigillvm Tenebrae Records)


Digital and CD (Belliciste, Sigillvm Tenebrae Records/Bandcamp, Werewolf Promotion and Todestrieb Records)
https://sigillvmtenebrae.bandcamp.com/album/b-rdachd-cogaidh
https://belliciste.bandcamp.com/album/b-rdachd-cogaidh
http://werewolf-webshop.pl/
https://todestrieb.co.uk/

https://www.facebook.com/pg/belliciste/about/?ref=page_internal

"The Luciferian Crown" by ARCHGOAT

Black Death Metal, Finland.

Released 14 September 2018.

With grim reliability, ARCHGOAT discharge yet more pustulant diabolic foulness into a world increasing moulded in their image.

‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a frighteningly-focused vision of hellish corruption, unsentimental, morally abhorrent and steeped in a violent horror all too real.

Contemporaneous with the uncanny classics of Finnish death and black metal – ARCHGOAT share the same penchant for mind-altering atmospherics, blurring the mystical song-craft of first wave black metal with guttural punk, primitive thrash, the sonorous barbarism of vintage death metal and grindcore that reeks of putrefaction.

Since forming in 1989 ARCHGOAT have revolved around an inner circle all their own, refining their idiosyncratic primitivism - ‘The Luciferian Crown’ is a mirror crushed against nature, a portal through egocentric decadence into the pile of tortured corpses in your psyche.

Digital, Vynil and CD (Archgoat/Bandcamp)
https://archgoat666.bandcamp.com/album/the-luciferian-crown

Store (Debemur Morti Productions)
https://www.debemur-morti.com/en/14-archgoat-shop

https://www.facebook.com/archgoat.official

Band Members:
Ritual Butcherer: Guitars
Lord Angelslayer: Bass, Vocals
Goat Aggressor: Drums

:: Additionnal Infos ::
Recorded at Temple of Black Moon.
Produced by Werwolf.
Mixed by Teemu Velin.
Music and lyrics by Ritual Butcherer.
Cover art by Chris Moyen.
Layout by Kontamination Design.

"Eastern Cult of Sodomy" by Sex Messiah

Black/Thrash Metal/Crossover from Japan.

Released 1 September 2018.

This unholy album came out on Nuclear War Now! Productions, a band that plays a mixture of raw black death metal mixed with thrash and crossover.

"...This band spits in the face of all things sacred, and that’s why I love them, plus their music is full of catchy decaying riffs that my mind feasts on! Just imagine if GISM decided to have intercourse with GG ALLIN and Motörhead, Blasphemy all decided to join this filthy sex party..." Cvlt Of Nation
https://www.cvltnation.com/experience-savage-black-death-sounds-sex-messiahs-eastern-cult-sodomy/

More reviews on: http://occultblackmetalzine.blogspot.com/2018/09/sex-messiaheastern-cult-of.html

LP's, CD's and Tapes on: https://shop.nwnprod.com/search?q=sex+messiah

https://www.facebook.com/sexmessiahjp/

Band Members:
Moenos: Guitar
Sadistic Blasphemer: Vocals
Sodom Survivor: Bass
Abaddrum SEX Grinder: Drums