![]() Xirgan – Prolonging The Archaic Slumber (Independent) USA This sinister blend of DS infused, hypnotically paced, medieval raw black is captivating – the kind of thing everyone should be paying attention to but barely anyone does. Sounds like: Evil red eyes looking at you from the darkness behind that gate on the cover. Kerasfóra – Denn Die Todten Reiten Schnell (Templo del Sol Muerto) Chile Really looking forward to the new album he may or may not be recording (and I’m not being obtuse – I really have no idea what he’s doing). He also completely owns that B-side cover – if you didn’t know, you’d swear it was a Dwarrowdelf track. Nah, I genuinely love what our man Tom does, and here he pushes the Delf sound further than ever. Dwarrowdelf – Cold Lie The Ashes (Independent) UK A burning, overpowering and obliterating rage… and soaring triumph.” Well, that’s what we said when we premiered a track from this one-two punch from the kings of the Greek underground. Writhing in eternal torment and bursting with limitless power. A feeling of being totally lost, yet coming home. Sounds like: “A burning fire both immediate and resonating from times of old. Dødsferd – Skotos (Transcending Obscurity Records) Greece Sumerian Tombs – As Sumer Thrones At Night.Wampyric Rites – The Eternal Melancholy Of The Wampyre / Demo III.Sentiero dei Principi – Romantic Black Metal Manifesto.A Mournful Path – Upon Mounds Of Flesh And Ash.Mooncitadel – Onyx Castles and Silver Keys.Irae – Dangerovz Magick Zpells from the Mesziah of Death.Shades of Vrsaj’kett – What Lies Beneath Gravel & Soot. ![]() Lamp Of Murmuur – Punishment and Devotion.Sapientia Diaboli – Black Is the Messenger.Katabasilisk – Sunset Of Solemn Silhouettes.Apologies in advance, I’ll be back before you know it with my full-length albums list. So without further ado… my 30 favourite EPs and demos of 2021. But even they were culled from a towering stack of hundreds more and all of them are worth your time (hell, even I’m surprised some of them didn’t make the cut for the main list). Yes, there are an excessive amount of Near Misses. Of course I didn’t check them ALL out – I do possess at least some vestiges of a life – but this list represents the cream of the crop of what I did spend time with and kept returning to over and over again. Somewhere in the vicinity of three and a half thousand black metal demos/EPs alone were released last year. ![]() Is that joke old yet?) from the past twelve months. Dex again, this time sharing the list of my favourite EPs and demos (worth more than your life. Greetings and infernal salutations warbrothers and assorted kvltlords.
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