Walking The Liminal Space

New Music Friday This Friday, the world of misery laid out but with two different yet both exceptional approaches to it. The bone breaking, terrifying sludge doom of Cattle Hammer – Dark Thoughts With Lights Out an…

New Music Friday: Cattle Hammer and Acceptance walkingtheliminalspace.blog/2026/02/27/n...

Way Back Wednesday Today back a couple of years to one of those rare arrivals for me at Ave Noctum Shadow Knell – Shadow Knell (Relapse 2024)

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Mausoleum Monday Today we peel back the scab on the wounds caused by battle and search for the true cost with Glaive Wielder / Altar Of Moss – Battlements

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Saint Omen – Mysteries Of Rebirth Artist: Saint Omen Title: Mysteries Of Rebirth Type: Album Label: Self Released I mentioned in my Hiraeth review that it was an album I had to take my time with but kept going back to before I knew…

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New Music Friday Today we enter the emotionally raw, heartbreaking world of Spanish melodic doom band Hela – A Reign To Conquer and then pass through the portals of madness and witness the debut full length from Du…

New Music Friday: Hela and Dusk Lurker walkingtheliminalspace.blog/2026/02/13/n...

Elyvilon – The Shrouded Isle Artist: Elyvion Title: The Shrouded Isle Type: Album Label: Digital / Sokol Keep Was this predestined? That I would feel moved to review this? Well actually not at all. First little secret….(…

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New Music Friday Today we celebrate the impending return of the UK’s finest purveyors of filthy, raging booze addled black metal punk with Wolfbastard – Satanic Scum Punks and explore the excellent debut from…

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Mausoleum Monday This day we delve into ancient tomes of heroic fantasy, the bloodied foundations of sword and sorcery with Barak Tor – Regal Hymns Of Blood and then a short but deeply cutting tale of the heroic an…

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New Music Friday Contrasts in genre but not in quality today. First up we have the emotional debut EP from excellent Irish post-metal/blackgaze duo Tryste – To Rise You Seek The End and then we enter the dark and u…

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Priestcraft, Fleshdirt, Shadow And Claw – Offerings From Serpentine Currents Artist: Priestcraft, Fleshdirt, Shadow And Claw Title: Offerings From Serpentine Currents Type: Album Label: Digital / Cassette from artists and Fiadh Productions I thinm what originally caught my …

New Music. Excellent and varied approaches to black metal from
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Varvitos – A Jester’s Ode To The Dead Oplus_16908320 Artist: Varvitos Title: A Jester’s Ode To The Dead Type: Album Label: Digital / Dale Of Shadows Originally released in March 2025, this album by Greek maestro Varvitos got a ta…

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New Music Friday I step into something deeply unpleasant but impossible to look away from with the twisted DevilsHarvest – est.IV:XX but find myself redeemed and uplifted by the atmospheric, fierce but beautiful Hi…

New Music Friday: DevilsHarvest and Hiraeth

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Waylander – Eriu’s Wheel (Listenable Records 2019) Oplus_16908320 Funny how time gathers speed as you roll downhill into the grave. Seasons begun to whirl instead of waltz and intentions gather dust in the corner as you struggle to keep pace with t…

Way Back Wednesday

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Blades Of Folmär – Eternal Dungeon II Oplus_16908320 Artist: Blades Of Folmär Title: Eternal Dungeon II Type: EP Label: Digital / Cassette (sold out) Sokol Keep Well 2025 has slunk away like the cowardly beast it was but it’s als…

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Déhà – Ashes As Rain II Oplus_16908320 Artist: Déhà Title: Ashes As Rain II Type: Album Label: Digital Now before this I was sadly only vaguely aware of Déhà and their incredibly prolific and varied output. So why did thi…

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Cryo Chamber Collaboration – Ithaqua Oplus_16908320 Artist: Various Title: Ithaqua Type: Album Label: Digital / CD Cryochamber This two hour, 2CD package is another in the wonderful and long historied series of Lovecraft based collabo…

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Blue Oyster Cult – Secret Treaties (CBS/Columbia 1974) Oplus_16908320 Artist: Blue Oyster Cult Title: Secret Treaties Type: Album Label: CBS / Columbia 1974 So the second in my short Way Back Wednesdays of music I always listen to over the Yule period.…

Way Back For Yule

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Mithril Blade -Breeglander’s Carol Oplus_16908320 Artist: Mithril Blade Title: Breeglander’s Carol Type: Album Label: Digital / Cassette Sokol Keep Well what better way to end Yule Mausoleum Monday (normal service resumes afte…

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Mausoleum Monday, Yule edition!

Blut Aus Nord – Ethereal Horizons Oplus_16908320 Artist: Blut Aud Nord Title: Ethereal Horizons Type: Album Label: Debmur Morti Productions I am pretty much on to a hiding for nothing reviewing this: Huge release for big name band …

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A Forest Of Stars – The Valley Of Desolation EP (Lupus Lounge 2015) Oplus_16908320 IArtist: A Forest Of Stars Title: The Valley Of Desolation Type: EP Label: Limited Edition CD (Lupus Lounge 2015) The first in a short series of seasonal retrospectives of music that…

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Words That Go Unspoken...
Perfect Akercocke for me. Dark, intelligent, progressive and strangely sensual
Kind of why I love The Antichrist Imperium as it follows on..

Hill Dwarf – Hill Dwarf Artist: Hill Dwarf Title: Hill Dwarf Type: Album Label: Digital / Cassette This has apparently been out a little over a month but as I tripped over it by a complete fluke (saw it once in a story on…

Mausoleum Monday and a chance meeting with a dwarf on a hill
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New Music Friday It’s Bandcamp Friday and the end of the year approaches so I have the pleasure of catching up with two releases from projects I have loved following the progressions of. Firstly the absolutel…

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Way Back Wednesday Back to 2022 and the third chapter from Akercocke related blastbeat worshipping, nun obsessed darknes creators The Antichrist Imperium – Volume III: Satan In His Original Glory (Apocalyptic Witchcr…

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Sokol Keep – Dungeon Paths: Hymns For Nameless Gods Artist: Sokol Keep Title: Dungeon Paths: Hymns For Nameless Gods Type: Album Label: Digital / Physical / Sokol Keep Here’s something out of legend. Long gone hero, a bard some say but a man o…

Mausoleum Monday. Gather round dungeon dwellers of all creeds. This is a pure celebration of old school worlds and a call to travel your own path. Just never forgot the worn, swamp damp boots that found this gateway and the hearts that opened it wide
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Chainsaw x Shoggoth – Dreams Of The Cosmic Tower Artist: Chainsaw x Shoggoth Title: Dreams Of The Cosmic Tower Type: Album Label: Digital / Sokol Keep Once more we abase ourselves at the feet of another Sokol Keep release but there can be no apol…

New Music Friday: Prepare yourself if you can. Today we travel into a hallucinatory, psyched out stoner nightmare through Lovecraftian voids and perhaps the hand of Hodgson cold on our shoulder, courtesy of Chainsaw x Shoggoth – Dreams Of The Cosmic Tower

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Emeth – Heroic Epics Cycle Artist: Emeth Title: Heroic Epics Cycle Type: Album Label: Digital This actually came out in April and I put it on my ‘to listen to’ list around August. And it promptly got lost (doesn&…

Late posting but this was Mausoleum Monday!
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New Music Friday Today we dash from one end of the musical spectrum to the other. We have the deeply eloquent and gentle flowing music of Asira – As Ink In Water before hurtling headlong into the savage maelstrom o…

New Music Friday! Chairmaker and Asira reviews up.

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Way Back Wednesday Back in the saddle after a little break, we first look back to 2019 and the second release by the bizare and dark binding of black metal, EBM and ambient courtesy of GosT – Valediction (Century Med…

Back in the saddle after a little break, we first look back to 2019 and the second release by the bizare and dark binding of black metal, EBM and ambient courtesy of GosT

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