Spiritual growth is a continuous process of metamorphosis from one form to the next higher state of being. It is a process of constant death and rebirth. (How fitting that this review concludes on the date of Walpurgisnacht). One must embrace the destruction of each living manifestation to look towards any hope of evolution. Any […]

Another strange release, this one.  Di Aima il Segno consists of music that, perhaps as hinted by the album cover, has been conjured forth by arcane spirits, or at the very least from some ethereal, Occidental shores where spirits gather in the mists, brandishing ancient instruments and resurrecting a compendium of archaic legend through poetry […]

At first glance, the cover art of Heaven Host‘s debut EP, Thou art my Hiding Place and my Shield, presented me with the comforting form of a Valknut. This, set against a cosmic back-drop and framing a single eye, was something that immediately appealed to my spiritual and philosophical interests – Heathenism blended with the […]

I find it, at times, difficult to fathom how certain intangibles in a nation’s perceived character can come to define their spirit as a culture and as individual people.  It has long been a noted understanding, perhaps even a cliche, that the Russians have ice running through their veins; a toughness that is both uncharacteristic […]

Since Musica Reservata, their first release in nineteen-ninety-four, Camerata Mediolanense have forged ahead and maintained a sense of artistry and musicianship while staying true to their vision of incorporating seemingly disparate musical genres into their repertoire, from baroque to martial, early music to neofolk and opera, on each release over the years all of these […]

Aeterna is a project whom most within the post-industrial world are already well aware of through their 2009 début on Sweden’s own Cold Meat Industry, New Dawn.  At the time, the album seemed to be received in a mostly positive light, but there were some meandering whispers within the underground that denounced the album as […]

It is undoubted by me that many fans of martial industrial music — as well as its misguided political enemies — will take a few glances at the artwork of Barbarossa Umtrunk‘s Der Talisman des Rosenkreuzers:  La Mission Secrete du Baron Sebottendorf and simply write it off as yet another over-played, war-torn Western European militant […]

Olegh Kolyada is a man whom has become quite the personification of his country’s willful, tough and historically militant and fiercely independent spirit.  His previous release, “Lux Aeterna”, saw his very unique style of martial neoclassic orchestrations subdued, utilizing them into a strikingly sombre masterpiece on Gradual Hate Records and Twilight Records that was constructed […]

Martial Neo-classic. It’s been a while since I’d heard anything good from this sub-genre. Winglord’s “The Chosen One” comes to mind. These type of releases are too few and far between, in my opinion. Stricta Doctrina is a one man effort, begun in 2010. The rise and fall of empires, and the eventual return to […]

Sturmführer is another bit of blatant Neonazi political propaganda (if you don’t see it elsewhere, you won’t miss the giant swastika making up the entire CD itself on the 2006 version) from the SSP / Audial Decimations Records front that, like in the recent Intolitarian review, we have to warn is a strong piece of […]