Eucharist

Vanhelgd – Deimos Sanktuarium Review

Vanhelgd – Deimos Sanktuarium Review

By Kenstrosity on October 12, 2018 in 2018, Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Pulverised Records, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Death Metal, 64 comments

“October is here! In one all-too-short month, we receive Halloween, fall colors, pumpkin spice everything, and a veritable smorgasbord of quality metal releases. My first October release comes courtesy of Vanhelgd with their fifth LP, Deimos Sanktuarium. To get a good baseline for the band, I decided to take a stroll down Vanhelgd’s back catalog. What I beheld was doom-laden but familiar Swedish death metal á la At the Gates. I am a fan of Swedeath, but Vanheldg’s more established contemporaries haven’t won me over as of late.” Pumpkins, goblins and Swedeath.

Desultory – Through Aching Aeons Review

Desultory – Through Aching Aeons Review

By Ferrous Beuller on June 21, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Pulverised Records, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Death Metal, 17 comments

“A strange analogue runs alongside my taste in traditional Swedish death — namely, my love for the classic horror fiction circulated by American publisher EC Comics in the mid 50’s. If you’re unaware of their pulp pressings, first of all: be ashamed, and second: do yourself a favor and Google the morbid pencil-work of Graham Ingels and scare yourself up some culture. The dark yet direct content of that material emphasized familiar characteristics I would soon come to recognize in the Stockholm death metal scene, infamous for its D.I.Y. brand of incipient malcontent, braced by a dirge of funeral winds and sci-fi malice aforethought.” Hello and goodbye again.