Dayal Patterson
Latest articles by Dayal Patterson

Ataraxy - Where All Hope Fades album review
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Doom-laden death metallers pile on some emotional weight

Resurrections - Unearthing the latest extreme reissues
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Not yet ratedExtreme reissues roundup

Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed album review
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Deathly, doomy Finns turn up the drama

Faal - Desolate Grief album review
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Dutch miserablists continue to plough their funereal furrow

Crucifyre - Post Vulcanic Black album review
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Swedish supergroup offer an inconsistentold-school tribute

Quicksand at Islington Academy, London - live review
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The Gospel - live

Master/Dehuman/Damim at The Lounge, London - live review
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Not yet ratedThe Gospel - Live

Nekrasov - The Mirror Void album reviews
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Challenging solo black metal with a dark ambient undertow

Archgoat/Svartidaudi/Bölzer at Underworld, London - live review
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Not yet ratedFinland’s primal force erupts through north London

Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti album review
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Swiss death/black dreamweavers approach the event horizon

Urarv - Aurum album review
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Norwegian avant-extremity with a fearless black metal pedigree

Overoth - The Forgotten Tome album review
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Irish death metallers scratch a seven-year itch

Order - Lex Amentiae album review
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Former Mayhem members take an unpredictable path

Gravdal - Kadaverin album review
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Bergen-based black metallers tinker with their DNA

Sun Of The Sleepless - To The Elements album review
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Heartfelt black metal for when the sun goes down

Mutate and survive: How black metal got weird in the 90s
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Although innovation was always at the heart of black metal’s DNA, the 90s saw a period of wild experimentalism that broke down all remaining doors of perception

Limbonic Art - Spectre Abysm album review
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Symphonic black metal pioneer returns

Wintersun - The Forest Seasons album review
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A controversial symphonic stopgap that exceeds expectations

Nargaroth / Absu / Hate / Nekrodelirium at Boston Music Rooms, London - review
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Not yet ratedSubterranea live

Dawn Of Ashes - Daemonolatry Gnosis album review
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Polished black metal bombast from an unlikely source

Mayhem and Dragged Into Sunlight at the Electric Ballroom, London - live review
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Not yet ratedOslo’s black metal pioneers forge a homecoming

Slagmaur - Thill Smitts Terror album review
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Nightmarish BM eccentricity to haunt your dreams
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