Ivan Tibos.

Finally! Finally! Finally! It was a promise to have a full album ‘soon’, but it took too long! Anyway, finally here it is…

What I mean is this. Irish act Killface did release the mini-album Faceless via on January 1^st 2011. Undersigned was enormously enthusiastic about this stuff (see update of January 4^th 2011 within the Archive-tab). Said was, via bio and the band itself, that this mini wasn’t ‘but an appetizer’ for the upcoming full length, but indeed, it took three years, three awfully long, empty years…

Finnish band Graveborne was formed in 2008 by Black Crucifixion’s Marchosias (guitars) and drummer Pentele (live-musician for Black Crucifixion). They released an EP in 2009 (Astride Over The Grave) and a first full length in 2011 (Pure Negativity, via Nykta).

Esoterica were formed in 2011 by Alexander Poole when his main act Chaos Moon split up (FYI: Chaos Moon reformed very recently). Under the moniker of Esoterica, he released a couple of EP’s and a split, and now also a full album, called Aseity. This one is produced and mixed by Kate Nathan, the guy behind the Plastik Musik-label (which did release the 2012-split New World Black Metal), who took care of the artwork as well.

ATMF aka Aeternitas Tenebrarvm Mvsicae Fvndamentvm, is a label that does surprise me time after time with excellent releases. Urna, An Autumn For Crippled Children, Arvas, Moonreich, Adamus Exul… It’s just a small selection of some great bands or projects which I was able to review some of their material before.

I won’t spend my time on a lengthy, deepening introduction. Check out the .net or the reviews I did on the newest Lethe-album (posted on March 13^th 2014) or Manii’s last year’s full length debut (see update January 8^th 2013).

On November 4^th 2013, MDD Records re-released Demilich’s grandiose 1993-album Nespithe. I’d like to refer to the review I did for this re-issue, which was posted on February 8^th 2014, for a (short) history of the band.

Adamus Exul were formed in 2008 by Patrick ‘A.Exul / Araloth’ Cook, a young Australian guy who used part of the Perseverance line-up for a couple of years as well.

The extremes within the Finnish scene are enormous. I really detest a large part of the scene for being way too poppy, predictious and pretentious. At the same time, there’s a really vivid underground-happening with tens of superb projects and bands.

The German act Khaos Aeon was formed in 2006 by Isaz (g, v) and Phosphoros (d), and in 2011 they debuted via Fog Of The Apocalypse with the full length studio record Exitus, an album that did include the Dissection cover-track Frozen. Two of the songs, by the way, also appeared on the split-cassette Anarchonic Deathworship, which also includes Canada’s Blight and fellow countrymen of Svathyr.

Taken their name from an old Dismember-song (or was it Carnage???), Deathevokation were born (created by Götz Vogelsang) nine years ago in order to pay tribute to the Old School.