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Newsflash: Ov Shadows get us Monologues!

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Do you remember Darkend or Dark Portrait with their somewhat insane incantations? For both, you could just feel the Dark Lord rising to prominence or sense the arrival of the child-eating Lamia. Juicily daemonic and almost disturbing, right? So, we thought it could get no better. Or more menacing for that matter. Well, wrong – so wrong.

From the ashes of the Swedish band Waning rises Ov Shadows. And it is a cold, icy storm that their debut EP Monologues unleashes onto these unsuspecting earthlings surrounding them. 

The band seek – and I quote “…a portal into chaos without … [...] Click to raid more!

Dark Portrait – A Harrowing Atrocity (2016) – Review

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We kind of felt that this may turn out to be the unholy year of Black Metal. And – indeed – it proved black in more ways than one. Like the fucking 50 shades of gray gone very dark and blood-laden all of a sudden.

We enjoyed Ritual Black Metal from the likes of Darkend. Loads of Atmospheric stuff coming our way too, which seems to be the new, sometimes almost sanitized blackened style of the day.

And now Greek fire starts to get on our mutual radar screen.

And I kid you not, Dark Portrait joining us from Athens serve us with their debut album A Harrowing Atrocity. The band was … [...] Click to raid more!