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Saturday, August 1, 2026
Ontborg (Italy)
Ontborg (Italy)
CD."Following the Steps of Damnation"
Ontborg's "Following the Steps of Damnation" The album classic elements of melodic death metal with a touch of melancholy and a distinct atmosphere. The guitar work is a highlight, with plenty of catchy and ominous riffs that stick in your head. The album is well-produced and features impressive artwork by Juanjo Castellano, adding to the overall atmosphere. While most of the album maintains a mid-paced tempo, it flows well and avoids feeling stagnant. The album draws heavily from the Swedish melodic death metal sound of the 90s, particularly bands like Dismember and Benediction. Despite its influences, Ontborg manages to create a sound that is distinctly their own. Some might find the consistent mid-tempo pacing to be predictable or lacking in variety.
The CD."Following the Steps of Damnation" is a highly recommended album for fans of melodic death metal, particularly those who appreciate the Swedish sound of the 90s. It's a well-crafted album with memorable moments, a strong atmosphere, and a distinct identity. The album's professional presentation and artwork further enhance the listening experience.
Membrance (Italy)
Membrance (Italy)
CD."Undead Island"
Membrance's "Undead Island" is a brutal, old-school death metal album from Italy, heavily influenced by the Swedish death metal sound of the 90's, particularly Entombed. The album stays true to the core elements of old-school death metal, with a focus on powerful, guttural vocals, heavy, buzzing guitars, and a relentless, driving rhythm. Membrance heavily utilizes the HM2 "buzzsaw" guitar tone, a hallmark of the Swedish death metal scene, especially bands like Entombed. The album incorporates elements of black and thrash metal, adding layers of intensity and atmosphere. While primarily aggressive, the album includes melodic guitar harmonies that provide some contrast and depth. The lyrics delve into the dark and macabre tales and legends of Venice and its surrounding lagoon. The band incorporates lyrics in the ancient Venetian dialect, adding a unique regional touch. The album is described by emphasizing its aggressive and uncompromising nature. Despite the brutality, the album manages to create a strong atmosphere, drawing the listener into the dark world of Venetian folklore. While drawing on established influences, Membrance manages to carve out its own identity through the use of local themes and lyrical style. In conclusion, "Undead Island" is a potent and compelling death metal album that delivers a visceral and atmospheric experience, blending classic Swedish death metal with unique Venetian lyrical themes. Membrance's CD "Undead Island" is an extreme metal album that blends various sub-genres, incorporating harmonies from bands like Immortal and Belphegor, aggression reminiscent of Testament and Sepultura, melodies from Kreator, and classic death metal/grindcore elements in the style of Entombed, Dismember, Dying Fetus, and early Carcass. The album is characterized by "buzzing" guitar riffs, "skank beat" drumming, vocal inhales, and experimental breakdowns with black metal influences. The album is a fusion of different extreme metal styles, created to reflect the members' diverse listening preferences. Notable influences include Immortal, Belphegor, Kreator, Testament, Sepultura, Entombed, Dismember, Dying Fetus, and Carcass. "Buzzing" and "skank beat" guitar and drum work."Vocal inhales". Experimental breakdowns with black-ish backing lines.The band worked with Luca Cocconi to achieve their desired sound.
Nemoreus (Austria)
Nemoreus (Austria)
CD."Arnea"
Nemoreus - "Arnea"
Nemoreus's "Arnea" is a 2021 folk metal album from Austria, characterized by its blend of German and English lyrics, folk instrumentation (including fiddle, flute, and bouzouki), and heavy guitar riffs. The album, released independently on Bandcamp, features 12 tracks, totaling around 44 minutes. The album begins with an intro track called "Solitude," The title track, "Arnea,". The album also features singles like "Mountain High," "Bring The Demons To The Hall," and "Arnea". While the album is praised for its folk elements and the quality of the music. However, the overall consensus is positive, highlighting Nemoreus as a promising act in the Austrian folk metal scene.
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Demonic Rites (Australia)
Diabolic Rites (Australia)
By late 2014 Skitz joins local musicians for a recording of some 80's metal classics under the moniker, 'Demoninacht'.
2016 Skitz joins local Black Metaller's Funeral Moon and plays a few shows.. by late 2017 the band is over and a new band is formed.
Diabolic Rites is spawn with Skitz & bandmates opting for a Raw Black Metal approach..A demo is quickly released along with a bunch a gigs.. The album 'Litanies of the Lecherous' is recorded in mid 2018 and released early 2019..
A new guitarist replaces origional axeman and the band forges a new album 'Raw Black Satanic Attack' in 2020.
2020 also saw Skitz Record an debut album for Adelaide Black Metallers, LUMEN Ad Mortem and also an EP, Dreaming Death - Sinister Minister.
Line-Up:
MUTILATOR - guitar
BLODGRIS - bass/vocals
DEMONINACHT - assault/battery
Diabolic Rites (Australia)
T: Why the name Diabolic Rites ? Any special meaning and who chose it?
DR: Diabolic Rites was named by our vocalist and infernal bassplayer, Blödgris, with the vision of filthy sadistic black metal in mind, I feel he did well with matching the name to our music as it is the Devil's rituals.
T: What bands and styles have influenced you since you decided to form the band?
DR: We are influenced by many bands across different genres. The main ones are Black Metal, which I myself have loved, played & listened to for 30+ years...Bands such as, Tsjuder, Urgehal, Beastcraft, Marduk, Wergoat, Goathammer(CA), Beherit, Thornspawn, Hellhammer/Celtic Frost, Bathory, Sodom, Venom, Possessed as well as Outlaw punk maniac's GG.Allin, Kettle Cadaver and Exploited add that dirty fucking punk element to our list of influences... outside of this we are into many other styles...
T: What do you hope to achieve with your musical proposal when they are heard in other countries through out the world?
DR: Our mission with our music is to craft gritty raw metal that resonates with us! Pure enlightenment through violent & vengeful Satanic hymnyhs!
As far as the rest of the world, if it aligns with others it's done it's job!
T: Why did they enter the world of metal and what keeps them motivated?
DR: Personally I've been involved in the Metal scene since the late 80's and hit skins for bands such as Sadistik Exekution, Hobbs Angel of Death, Destroyer 666 (two tracks first album), along with Death metal maniacs, Abramelin and Cemetery URN and noise Lords- Grave Temple (Sunno) guitarist Steven O'Malley and MAYHEM/Tormentor vocal highpreist Attila Csishar)
The other members, Blödgris has a long history of playing in bands such as Iron Wörzel & Funeral Moon, and Mütilatör has his awesome solo project band Elysian Blaze! With decades of collective experience, we've all stayed motivated and inspired regardless of time...
T: How would you define your music?
DR: Diabolic Rites music is centered around, total hatred and disdain for the world in general! Luciferian curses vomitted forth in chants of filthy abhorration, and an offering of pure annihilation, hex majik, and feral black metal...summed up as 'Raw & filthy sadistic black metal'
T: Who is in charge of the art for your CD."Litanies of the Lecherous" and CD."Raw Black Satanic Attack" ?
DR: The Litanies album artwork was executed by a friend of ours, Mr.James Ozzy Osman, whom is an exj loocellent artist & tattooer also. He has done some great tattooing for me.
The Raw Black Satanic Attack artwork was done by myself.. I've been doing art my whole life and this was something I'd been conjuring for a while! The concepts came with the lyrics I was also writing for the album and culminated in the finished product!
T: What can you tell me about the experience of recording your CD."Raw Black Satanic Attack" ?
DR: The recording of Raw Black Satanic Attack was a great thing for myself. It was late 2020 and I'd built my own drum studio in my house.. The room took me quite a while to work on due to sound proofing and aesthetics.. the room was completely black, creating a savage darkness to match the mood I was looking to capture! The recording of the drums was fully completed within one session roughly around 7hrs. There's a Slayer cover, Die By the Sword I tracked that day we are yet to release.. All up, it was a summoning of filthy demons upon a shrine of skins, freshly flayed in Hell! I become Possessed by the spirit of Pazuzu and the drums are the fucking ñ which the blood runs through like a river of black retribution! Blödgris & Mütilatör individually tracked bass/guitars and vocals at their houses.. Mütilatör mixed the album and achieved a very well balanced result, clarity, rawness and a savage, sonically organic production.
T: What are the lyrics of your CD'S."Litanies of the Lecherous" and "Raw Black Satanic Attack" about?
DR: The lyrics cover all types of twisted & perverse topics.. Ultimately it is a immersion of filthy sadistic black metal, so Demon worship, depraved murder and Satanic sex rituals are rife amongst the lyrics...
However, I wrote the lyrics to a track called 'Corpsewax' which is a tribute to real life French maniac, 'Nicklaus Claux', Necrofiend, 'The Vampire of Paris'. When I was drumming/ touring Europe with Attila Csishar/Steven O'Malley/Oren Ambarchi under the name 'GRAVETEMPLE' in 2008 we recorded a live album in Paris, France. After the show Attila introduced me to his friends from old school Death black band, ARKHON INFAUSTUS, who said I need to meet a friend who is infamous.. This was Nicklaus Claux.... He was a polite and friendly person!
He invited us to go back to his place for drinks... it was rather surreal!! So, I wrote the track for Raw Black Satanic Attack...
The main focus is violent Satanic old school black metal.
T: Why are most of the songs on this CD."Litanies of the Lecherous" under 3 minutes, unlike on the next CD."Raw Black Satanic Attack" where most of them are over 8 minutes long?
DR: We had a line-up change after the first album. Litanies was more straight forward, raw & punk elements.. For Raw Black, we were writing more transcendental parts that go for alot longer and achieve a sense/state of trance like pure annihilation.. Guitarist Mütilatör, raised the bar with his writing and it was an evolution that seemed to be perfect!
T: What did you think of your latest CD, "Raw Black Satanic Attack"? I perceive a very marked technical evolution in the sound, maintaining its Cruel and Brutal Black Metal essence, compared to the CD "Litanies of the Lecherous," where I hear a dirtier, rawer, more brutal, and darker old-school Black Metal sound. What are your thoughts on this?
DR: Definitely! Originally we were focussed alot on that filthy punk element but we wanted to add new elements like war metal for instance which we use on Raw Black!
I like the mixture of these elements including that dirty Death Metal influence and fusing primitive punk savageness!
T: Which do you prefer writing lyrics or music?
DR: I like both the writing music & the lyrics.. I get inspiration in waves like something is sending me messages when lyric writing, it's almost automatic like a conduit and have written more than half an album's lyrics in 4-5hrs..
Music is the collective effort to put it all together and make it cohesively flow as it should!
Song writing is a great process when it all comes together and the elements sound right..
T: What inspired you to write the lyrics for the songs "Necroreich" and "Filthy Fucking Spirit"
DR: NECROREICH is about Diabolic Rites metaphorically as a force, an army of rabid demons ready to murder anything that gets in our way... It's about fighting against weakness, hypocrisy, a lame world full of mediocrity and ridiculous false values and milquetoast woke fallacies and the lies of the mainstream world!! It's about standing strong and smashing these fucking narcissistic clowns and standing above all the bullshit!!! ALL HAIL THE NECROREICH!!
FILTHY FUCKING SPIRIT is about exactly that.... the inspiration came from some personal experiences with spirits/entities.... I had a ghost breathing in my fucking ear and doing things in my house back in the early 90's... something malevolent and made itself known to me. It was clearly wanting attention. It even shattered a stationary heavy based drinking glass into hundreds of tiny schards & moved objects in front of my eyes.. Around 2013 I had a black shadow man figure float down a path in my backyard which sent chills up my spine.. the feeling was beyond a mere supernatural event it was clear as fucking day...so I wrote this track about these spirits!
T: What is the relationship between the CD."Litanies of the Lecherous" and the CD."Raw Black Satanic Attack"?
DR: Litanies is the Malignant Prince of Filth and Raw Black is the Gateway to the Infernal Abyss... two albums that take raw metal seriously.
T: What significance does it represent for your CD."Raw Black Satanic Attack" cover and who is in charge of the art?
DR: The Unholy Trinity on the front cover art for Raw Black Satanic Attack represents each band member, Blödgris, Demoninacht & Mutilator united!! I did this piece of art along with the rest of Raw Black's visual concepts..
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T: What has it been like for the band to work as an Independent Record Label and self-produce your own CDs? You only received support from Davao Hellbangers Productions to record 66 cassettes? (It's unbelievable, shit.). You haven't received the support you expected from a Record Label?
DR: We've had contact with a few labels but we wanted to put it out independently.. We never pushed it too hard in that respect but it is something we would consider in future.
T: How did you manage to record your magnificent vinyl LP, "Litanies of the Lecherous," not only musically but also in the cover art design, without the support of a record label?
DR: We self recorded the Litanies album's drum tracks in Blödgris' loungeroom in a few hours, it was a great process! Guitars & vocals were all done at home, and the sound engineering shared by both Blödgrisj & Dodsdrakt...
The art was magnificently executed by a friend of ours, Adelaide tattoo artist, James Ozzy Osman who put together the cover art with our concepts. The orgy scene fit nicely with the album's overall rawness...
T: Have you contacted a Record Label for your third CD, Vinyl, or Cassette release?
DR: We pressed 300 units and there are about 50 left now.. this shit is underground, definitely no Dimmu Borgir.
I also find the scene is so fucking saturated, for the band to elevate it's status it is all about playing alot of shows both here & overseas....
T: What currently inspires the band Diabolic Rites to continue working in the Australian Underground Black Metal Scene?
DR: Diabolic Rites is in a hinatus state...Basically I made a decision to stand down from the live drumming and only record from this point on... Life, Family and nearly 4 decades behind the kit have created my personal decision to not play live....
T: What motivated you to venture into the world of metal and what keeps you motivated to continue?
DR: From an early age I was introduced to a bunch of hard rock & metal in the early 80's that formed a life long obsession for metal... Over the years it grew into far more extreme & sinister paths in the genre, taking in Death Metal, Punk, Thrash & Black Metal... We all continue to seek out new bands/albums/influences but personally most of the old school is what works for myself...
T: How did you like your latest CD. "Raw Black Satanic Attack"? I perceive a very technical evolution in the sound, and at the same time a crueler and more brutal sound compared to the CD "Litanies of the Lecherous." ¿What do you think about it?
DR: Litanies album was written with our first guitarist, Dodsdrakt, who had a very different writing approach, so we were playing most of these tracks somewhere around 3.30-4 minute tracks... Then Mütilatör came into Diabolic Rites and we spent more time collaborating with the crafting of each track to create something we were all very immersed in and felt was done in the right way. The results being alot longer tracks, up to a nearly 9 minute track, Raw Black....
T: How many copies have they made of your CD. "Raw Black Satanic Attack"? And how many copies have they sold?
DR: RAW BLACK SATANIC ATTACK was a pressing of 777 copies which to my knowledge has nearly sold out... I think there's roughly 75 left at this point...
T: What other bands in your Country Adelaide, a future projection on the local scene? ¿What other bands are around here friends of yours?
DR: The Adelaide scene has some magnificent bands! Some of my favourites are, Tzun Tzu, Oath of Damnation, Beyond Mortal Dreams, Cauldron Black Ram.
T: What can you tell us about the scene in Adelaide? Do you think it's less well-known than in other cities like Sydney or Melbourne in Australia? Especially considering they have a great black metal band like Diabolical Rites?
DR: I feel like Adelaide has a pretty decent extreme metal scene! There is great support for underground metal here! It may not have the numbers of Sydney & Melbourne but the passion & support in Adelaide is excellent! Yes, maybe the bigger cities can elevate your band to more audience but there is also alot more bands in those cities so maybe it all averages out well for most of the scene.. The Underground continues to thrive here...
T: What continues to motivate the band to stay active on the Australia and world extreme scene?
DR: Raw Black Satanic Attack is the evolution of the band's style, due to the Infernal playing of our guitarist, Mütilatör whom became our new member in 2018.. Blödgris & Mütilatör both wrote new material at the time that created a new perspective as well as myself introducing more 'war metal' drumming, barbaric elements and changing up on just straight forward raw Black metal by adding feral Death Metal and of course rabid punk savageness! We also went for the transcendental parts that create a whirlwind that takes you into a deeper state of mind with long blast sections and Satanic fury for a truly savage experience to the listener...
T: Would you like to come to South America someday for a tour? And be able to promote your music more? I'm hoping that some real tour manager will hear about you and bring you to play in South Americae. (You can count on the great support for the promotion of Diabolic Rites in "The Legion of TchorT" zine.)
DR: To tour South America would be a great honour and I'm sure the metalheads there would be killer to play to!!
As I've stopped playing live maybe another drummer could tour with my band mates and spread the Raw Black Satanic Attack in your city!!
T: What is the new thing that Diabolic Rites is preparing to record?
DR: Diabolic Rites is going to record a new album, I am hoping to record sometime in 2026 - 6 -6 ... I have a few working album titles...
We are also going to finish the Live album which was our last show in May 2025... We professionally recorded this performance & look forward to releasing it sometime this year also....
T: Thank you so much for taking the time to answer the interview for “The Legion Of TchorT” 'Zine. Any last words for our reader's? Where can our readers get merchandise from your band? ¿Any news?
DR: Satanic Hails to you Lord Tchort!! Thankyou for your support and for this interview!!
Yes, I will be putting Diabolic Rites merch up for sale on my Blast Abyss Bandcamp page sometime shortly so look out for that!! HAILS TO THE TRUE FUCKING UNDERGROUND, WE RAISE A CHALICE FOR YOU LORD TCHORT!!
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Fallaness (Austria)
Fallaness (Austria)
CD."Sagenwelten"
Fallaness's "Sagenwelten" is a strong debut album in the Atmospheric Black Metal genre, showcasing a one-man project's ability to create a compelling and cohesive sound. The album, available on Running Wild Productions, features well crafted songs with dramatic breaks, tremolo picking, and haunting synths that build a dark and mysterious atmosphere. While the lyrics are in Austrian German, the music effectively conveys the album's themes of legends and stories from the old Danube and Vienna. The album excels in creating a dark, and immersive atmosphere, drawing listeners into its world of legends and lore. The songs are well structured, with a good balance of heavy, crawling riffs and more ethereal moments, including dramatic breaks and effective use of tremolo picking. The sound is well produced, providing a suitable backdrop for the music without being overly polished or sterile. While influences from bands like Drudkh, Agalloch, Gaerea, and Summoning are noticeable, Fallaness manages to create a distinct sound, making it more than just an extension of previous works. The album's themes and lyrical content, while not easily understood by all listeners, contribute to a cohesive and engaging listening experience. The Austrian German lyrics might be a barrier for some listeners who prefer English or other widely understood languages. The CD is limited to 300 copies, potentially making it difficult for some to acquire. "Sagenwelten" is a highly recommended album for fans of Atmospheric Black Metal, offering a strong debut that blends powerful musicality with a compelling atmosphere The album's strengths lie in its ability to transport the listener to another world through its sound and storytelling.
Transcendence (Usa)
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Transcendence (Usa)
CD."Towards Obscurities Beyond"
Transcendence's "Towards Obscurities Beyond" CD is a melodic death metal album inspired by 1990s Swedish death and black metal, but with a modern and powerful sound. Its balance of raw and polished production, solid songwriting, and dynamic tempo changes have earned it praise for its consistency and ability to create a captivating atmosphere, drawing us in with its blend of black, death, and melodic elements. It pays homage to the classic sound of bands like Dissection and Exhumation, but with a modern twist. The album combines mid-paced sections with faster, blastbeat-driven moments, which keeps the music captivating. The album's ability to create a dark and fantastical atmosphere, immersing us in its world. The balance between raw and polished production allows the band's musicianship to shine. At approximately 38 minutes in length, the album is considered a powerful and impactful listen, avoiding unnecessary repetition or filler.
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