Review Eternal Darkness "Eternal Darkness"

At this point, I would like to present one of the absolute highlights of the year, even though its release was several months ago. We are talking about the debut album by the doom death metal band Eternal Darkness from Eskilstuna, Sweden, which was released last July on the tasteful Singaporean label Pulverised Records. The band, whose ranks include former members of such illustrious bands as Svartsyn, Unpure, and The Black—or rather, used to include, as I'll explain in a moment—was founded way back in 1990, released several demos, and finally, in 1992, a 7“ single with two tracks, whose cover, incidentally, also decorates Dimmu Borgir's debut album "For All Tid", published three years later. In August 1992, the band recorded an album entitled "Twilight in the Wilderness", which was supposed to be released by Necropolis Records but never saw the light of day.

Review Azath "Through a Warren of Shadow"

At this point, I would like to introduce the 2020 debut album by Azath, a US-Canadian collaboration, which in my opinion did not receive enough attention. The album was released by Pulverised Records, which is already a certain seal of quality. The band, which has been around since 2018 and released a demo before the album came out, as well as a 7" with the Americans from Nucleus in 2023 as their last sign of life, plays fast, mangy death metal, somewhere between old school heroes like Incantation or Dead Congregation, or, for that matter, like playing an Autopsy LP at 45 rpm.