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Regular Columns / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #5
Feature — January 27, 2020
Welcome to the first Only Death Is Real of 2020, which this time features music from all corners of the earth. The column is a little shorter than usual this time as a few releases are yet to be fully available on bandcamp at the time of writing and including …
Regular Columns / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #4
Feature — November 12, 2019
Choosing five releases for Only Death Is Real gets harder with each iteration and this fourth column was no different. The list grew greater each time I heard something great but I chose five releases in each column so far and I’m not one to break my own arbitrary rules. …
Regular Columns / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #3
Feature — August 27, 2019
The third iteration of Only Death Is Real is perhaps its darkest yet. Oppressive black metal and frozen winds all feature with the common thread being that the music here has all been released independently or by the artists themselves. Dive in but don't forget to come up for air. …
Regular Columns / Only Death Is Real: Only Death Is Real #1
Feature — August 12, 2018
There’s so much music released, whether physically or digitally, that keeping up with what’s going on becomes almost like a full-time job. There’s only so much one person can listen to and subsequently write about and so a lot of smaller releases may slip through the net. With Only …
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 …
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. …
