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Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #11
Feature — May 15, 2021
Welcome to the first Only Death Is Real of 2021. Not much has changed since the last time although perhaps there is now some light at the end of the proverbial tunnel in terms of being able to get back to some kind of normality. Perhaps you’re able to meet …
One Question Interviews: Lamp Of Murmuur
Feature — June 29, 2021
Lamp of Murmuur SPB: You covered a Dead Can Dance song on your record: Why this band and this song in particular? What is it about them that you feel links them to your style of black metal? Lamp of Murmuur: Starting with the notion that music is …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #12
Feature — July 6, 2021
It is time, once again, to wax lyrical about how creative the underground metal scene is. This year has seen a surge in artists presenting their full vision for the first time, perhaps an effect of being shut indoors for much of the last 18 months and having the means …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #13
Feature — October 3, 2021
The number 13, unlucky for some, a portend of doom, of sign of bad things to come. For Only Death Is Real the number 13 brings a handful of releases that range from electronic beats to deeply religious texts to raw black metal and dungeon synth. The number 13 is …
One Question Interviews: Vouna
Feature — November 15, 2021
Yianna (Vouna) SPB: How did you choose the guest artists for this record? Yianna: Everyone was a very natural addition to the record: Autumn Kassel and Caitlin Fate were both members of the live line-up at the time, before they both moved to New Orleans. Autumn had …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #14
Feature — December 4, 2021
Circle of Ouroborus - Kiromantia (His Wounds) Keeping up with Circle of Ouroborus could be a full-time job in itself, as the duo turn around new music at a rate that is enough to give one a moment of breathlessness. They have been quieter in recent years compared to …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #15
Feature — March 28, 2022
The first Only Death Is Real of 2022 comes at a tumultuous time, a time where the pandemic still has a grip on the world and where world leaders can wantonly decide to invade their neighbours on a whim. The nuances are, of course, much trickier to unravel but from …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #16
Feature — July 25, 2022
Baazlvaat - An Old Forgotten Text (Self-Released) Baazlvaat appeared as if from nowhere (Flint, Michigan) during 2021 with The Higher Power, a record that owed as much to Bathory as it did to Thin Lizzy (despite the band not really knowing the latter), as a home-recorded full-length that …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #17
Feature — October 5, 2022
The collection of artists that make up this edition of Only Death Is Real have something that connects them. Despite the surface appearances being markedly different across the board, the five bands/musicians gathered here have been wildly prolific in their careers -- whether that’s for a long or a short …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #18
Feature — November 21, 2022
Winter is approaching which means that musical preferences change alongside the season. For this edition of Only Death Is Real, that change is reflected in the excess of doom that has been released in the last month, with a sprinkling of black metal thrown in for good measure. There’s something …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #19
Feature — March 5, 2023
Can you believe that it’s 2023? It hardly seems like last week that we were ushering in 2022 and trying to maintain an outlook of hope that maybe, just maybe, this was a year in which things got better. Judging by the music that makes up this edition of Only …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #20
Feature — May 16, 2023
For the twentieth edition of this column, we are doing something slightly different. Why? Well, to be honest, my listening habits have taken a detour of late and instead of diving into a million different things, I am concentrating way too hard on a handful of releases. And these two …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #21
Feature — July 24, 2023
I'm slowly running out of things to say in these intro pieces. Do you read them? Do you need to know why I chose these particular records or are you happy to dive in and discover? Barbelith – Deathless Master (Self-Released/Third House) Nearly ten years after Mirror Unveiled …
Interviews: ROME
Feature — August 7, 2023
Music is often a vessel in which ideas not easily described can be laid out and processed in ways other than conversation. For Luxembourgish dark folk band ROME, that is certainly the case, as founder Jerome Reuter explains to us in the following interview. Disclaimer: the interview was sent at …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #22
Feature — September 10, 2023
It's time, once again, for Only Death Is Real to make an appearance. This is the twenty second edition of the column and I'll be honest with you, writing is becoming harder each time. Sitting down to purposefully do something is difficult, opening the laptop seems to get scarier and …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #23
Feature — January 29, 2024
Arkhtinn – 三度目の災害 (Prava Collective) The mysterious Prava Collective release music by a handful of artists (who may or may not be in every band or at least more than one), each digital drop containing a plethora of music that encompasses the entire label’s roster while Amor Fati …
Music / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #24
Feature — April 8, 2024
Acathexis – Immerse (Amor Fati/Extraconscious Records) Acathexis’ self-titled debut from 2018 is one that still bears repeated listens, personally, many years later. With some of the best known and hardest working musicians within black metal behind the band, it was always clear that this is a band to watch. …
