Diocletian

01. Diocletian - Decimator, 2007 CD EP      Asphyxiate Recordings - AR017 02. Diocletian - Doom Cult, 2009 CD Album      Invictus Productions - IP 013 03. Diocletian - Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes, 2010 CD Album      Invictus Productions - IP022 04. Diocletian, Weregoat - Disciples Of War, 2012 CD EP      Dark Descent Records - DDR064CD , Compilation      Contains 6 songs by: Diocletian, Weregoat 05. Diocletian - Gesundrian, 2014 CD Album Limited Edition      Osmose Productions - OPCD269 06. Diocletian - Amongst The Flames Of A Bvrning God, 2019 CD Album      Profound Lore Records, Profound Lore Records - PFL225, PFL-225 Black death matters! Brace yourself, put out the torch and enter the caverns of Diocletian! Their war metal orgy of distortion and blackness bangs heads against the walls of death and we all enjoy the frantic assault on the meat in the tradition of Blasphemy and Sadistik Exekution. From the contemporary cohort of war metallurgists, Diocletian is one major missile launcher. The fan of Malthusian, Impetuous Ritual, Teitanblood and of course Revenge cannot not ingest the entire Diocletian output, the doctor said you must. Slightly less obfuscated and oppressive than Impetuous Ritual, and slightly less distorted than Revenge, the general aesthetic of Diocletian leaves room for riffs to remember and generally more decipherable structures. But this is only relative - this is still WAR METAL! They're not talking the language of polished, computerized black metal with dramatic keyboards. They're not talking the magnificent, gut wrenching and tortuous Polish BM language either (my favorite branch with war metal), no, Diocletian manifest the extreme noise terror of maximum doom and destruction from slow crushing to extreme speed ravage. And they are among the best at it! If not sure about how much you would like to have your auditory canals raped, try Gesundrian first, it is their "most accessible" offering (especially in term of sound production). When I listen to Diocletian, so do my neighbors ! Remove brackets and unzip: [burning zer] !ZER Diocletian ZER! PS: a FLAC link to Annihilation Rituals is welcome.

Night Demon

01. Night Demon - Night Demon, 2013 CD EP      Shadow Kingdom Records - SKR075CD 02. Night Demon - Curse Of The Damned, 2015 CD Album      Century Media - CMR92212 03. Night Demon - Darkness Remains, 2017 CD Album      Nuclear Music Records - NM009 04. Night Demon - Live Darkness CD2, 2018 CD Album x 2      Shadow Kingdom Records - SKR158DCD 05. Night Demon - Live Darkness CD1, 2018 CD Album x 2      Shadow Kingdom Records - SKR158DCD 06. Night Demon - Vysteria EP, 2020 We all agree that black metal matters, but today we will focus on traditional heavy metal as performed in the 21st century. Fans of Angel Witch, Anvil, Satan, Saxon and generally the rougher side of NWOBHM and all the classic stuff of 1983, borderline speed metal, should click without hesitation. You will not find one ounce of originality here, and twelve tons of energy. You will not find endless solos nor brainfuck complexity, you will be headbanging nonstop with the heat and moisture of denim and leather. Night Demon perfectly resuscitate that cherished sound of ours, the dinosaurs of the 80s, they combine the drive of the basic ingredients and they deliver with a perfection that minimizes the cheese - they simply rock you to zerRrRrrrrrrrRRRrRRrrRrr! This is not just retro, it is fucking great! Even if you only visit the Church for the punk links, give that first 2013 EP a chance, the Motörizing might convince you, I was hooked before the first chorus. Bang that head!!! Remove brackets and unzip: [demonizer] !ZER Night Demon ZER!

Reload: Massappeal

01. Massappeal - Nobody Likes A Thinker, 1986 Vinyl 12" Mini-Album      Waterfront Records - DAMP 39 02. Massappeal - The Bar Of Life..., 1987 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM Single      Waterfront Records - DAMP 61 03. Massappeal - Jazz, 1989 Vinyl LP Album, Vinyl 12" 45 RPM      Vinyl Solution, Vinyl Solution, Vinyl Solution - SOL 21, SOL 21-1, SOL 21-2 04. Massappeal - The Mechanic, 1991 CD Album      Forge Records - FOR 301 CD 05. Massappeal - Jazz, 1993 CD Album      Forge Records - SUR 533 CD      Reissue from 1993 06. Massappeal - Nobody Likes A Thinker, 1993 CD Reissue      Survival - SUR 534 CD      1-7: Nobody Likes A Thinker, 8-9: Bar Of Life, 10: Lucky Country comp., 11: 1st demo, 12-15: live Old Canberra Inn D.R.I. tour (December 1987) 07. Massappeal - The Zesty Personality Chamber, 1993 CD EP      Shagpile - SHAG CD 7007 08. Massappeal - Nommo Anagonno, 1994 CD Album      Shagpile - SHAGCD2019 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [jazzer] !ZER Massappeal ZER!

Fornicus

01. Fornicus - Feast For Rats, 2015 CDr EP Limited Edition Numbered      Negative Earth Records - NE003 02. Fornicus - Storming Heaven, 2015 CDr Album Reissue      Independent - none 03. Fornicus - Hymns Of Dominion, 2016 CD Album      Dark Horizon Records - DHR034 04. Fornicus - Sulphuric Omnipotence, 2020 File FLAC Album x 9      Negative Earth Records - none As a vivid contrast to the previous celebration of doom, let us now indulge in the guilty pleasure of the totality of the black death. Fornicus is the deal. To just name three prongs in this voracious mouth, Impaled Nazarene, Dark Funeral and Archgoat frequently come to mind when blasting Fornicus (at 11, of course), who themselves are not Finnish nor Norwegian at all. The mysterious ways of the zeriverse. Of course, you shall find in the awesome Fornicus arsenal three dozen other influences and references from the great black metallurgy of the 90s. The essence of Fornicus is speed with catchy riffs and fabulous aggression.  It is all extremely well done - composition, execution and production, everything rocks. No real innovation, no new frontier explored, but 666% headbanging with passion and personality. Sometimes a purge with classic straight forward black metal is necessary when you're possessed by the twists and games of modern Polish black metal. All this blackness at once, oh yesssss! Black til zer! The density of the blackiverse within the zeriverse increases until nothing else matters! BLACK METAL MATTERS! Remove brackets and unzip: [sulfurizer] !ZER Fornicus ZER! Thanks everyone for the kind 12th anniversary comments here and on the Zerbook. You are the Church! Zer til death!

Winter + Göden

01. Winter - Into Darkness, 1990 CD Album      Future Shock Recordings, Future Shock Recordings - FSCD 8000, FSCD8000 02. Winter - Into Darkness / Eternal Frost, 1999 CD Compilation      Nuclear Blast, Nuclear Blast - NB 446-2, 27361 6446-2 03. Göden - Beyond Darkness, 2020 CD Album Stereo      Svart Records - SVART222CD The Church was born 12 years ago today. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY shout all zerists around the globe and beyond. To celebrate, we must pay homage and submit to the eternal domination of the essence of heavy. It took 30 years to have a follow-up to one of 1990's best releases. Into Darkness did set a standard in the activity of crushing with decibels. It was like the most dense Celtic Frost sections extended and reworked to black hole levels. A better mix with guitars more upfront could have elevated this classic to Cathedral stardom. Now if you have not died in the interval, this is what you get in 2020: perfect sound production to chisel the most perfect doom conflagration you can dig out of any mass grave. Göden is the new moniker for the same task: flattening everything that moves, and everything that is already still. The Göden album is the most prefect machine of doom, the most monstrous release in the genre. Both killer albums from With The Dead cannot compete, together or separately - this is how floored I am. We've only been through half of that shit year, but I already know that the Göden album shall sit on the throne of my 2020 Top 10. Even that über killer Triptykon live release is no match, it will have to sit on position 2 or 3 of the Top 10, for Göden outdoes Celtic Frostykon in its own art of the mega-riff. On top of its ultra power as a groovy funeral doom panzer, Göden makes infectious songs that your neuron will chew on between two spins. Yes, catchy funerals exist, try it. Perfection of the mass death! Mastery of the black matter! Drink and dive into the blissful bottomless tar pits! Only Göden could provide the right soundtrack for the 12th year of existence of this blog. Funeral doom for the end of the world of 2020! Göden rules the zeriverse! 12 years of ZerRRRRrrRRRRrRrR!RRr!rR!rr!RR!RR!Rr!R!rrR!RrR!RR!!! For the occasion, in case it was not clear, let us reiterate the sincere message of love from the Church: fuck the right, fuck the left, fuck the state with a radioactive jackhammer. Fuck all statists, fuck conservatives, fuck liberals, fuck minarchists, fuck socialists, fuck democrats, fuck all supporters of lockdowns and mandatory fofial diftanfing - you bunch of fascistic zombies, you glowing team of marxist apes, you extinguishers of civilization, you pathetic worms! THE CHURCH WISHES YOU A SLOW, HORRIBLE DEATH.  Remove brackets and unzip: [eternal zer] !ZER Winter, Göden ZER!

Cirith Ungol

01. Cirith Ungol - Cirith Ungol, 1979 Cassette Single Sided      Not On Label - none 02. Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire, 1981 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14252-2      Reissue from 1999 03. Cirith Ungol - Frost And Fire, 1981 Vinyl LP Album Reissue      Restless Records - 70118-1      Reissue from 1987 04. Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead, 1984 Vinyl LP Album      Roadrunner Records - RR 9832 05. Cirith Ungol - King Of The Dead, 1984 CD Album Reissue Remastered      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14253-2      Reissue from 1999 06. Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell, 1986 Vinyl LP Album      Metal Blade Records, Roadrunner Records - RR 9681, RR 9681 07. Cirith Ungol - One Foot In Hell, 1986 CD Album Reissue      Metal Blade Records - 3984-14203-2      Reissue from 1999 08. Cirith Ungol - Paradise Lost, 1991 CD Album Unofficial Release      Restless Records - 7 72518-2      Reissue from 0 09. Cirith Ungol - Witch's Game, 2018 Vinyl 12" 45 RPM EP      Metal Blade Records - 3984-25111-1 10. Cirith Ungol - I'm Alive, 2019 CD x 2, DVD DVD-Video x 2      Metal Blade Records - 3984-15672-2 11. Cirith Ungol - Forever Black, 2020 File FLAC Album x 9      Metal Blade Records - none It looks like a reload, it smells like a reload, it tastes like a reload, but it's NRAR. Today we will enjoy the most complete Cirith Ungol the Church can offer, including the AWESOME 2019 live and 2020 studio albums - two giant monsters of first grade classic metal and doom. It is very probable that Forever Black shall be considered by the Church central office as Cirith Ungol's best release after almost 50 years of existence. Let us also enjoy that absolutely fabulous 1979 demo - sure, the production can be a turn-off, but give it a chance, it rips! Forever super classic classy heavy metal in the black triplazering doom pits of the zeriverse! Remove brackets and unzip: [one foot in zer] !ZER Cirith Ungol ZER!

Reload: Disfear

01. Disfear - Disfear, 1992 Vinyl 7" EP 45 RPM White Label      No Records - NO RECORDS 002 02. Disfear - A Brutal Sight Of War, 1993 CD      Lost And Found Records - LF 060/CD 03. Disfear - Soul Scars, 1995 CD Album      Distortion Records - DISTCD 13 04. Disfear - Everyday Slaughter, 1997 CD Album Promo      Kron-H, SPV GmbH - KRON-H 08 CD, SPV 084-20292 CD 05. Disfear - Misanthropic Generation, 2003 CD Album      Relapse Records - 6554-2 06. Disfear - Powerload, 2003 Vinyl 7" 45 RPM EP      Throne Records - chapter 05 07. Disfear - Live The Storm, 2008 CD Album      Relapse Records - RR 6723 Requested: rezerred. Remove brackets and unzip: [disvirtue] !ZER Disfear ZER!

Acrid

01. Acrid - Eighty-Sixed, 1997 CD Album      Dirty Kidz - DIRTY KIDZ 001 Raw metal and nasty hardcore as concocted in the 90s German scene: a noisy and abrasive mix that grinds and tears to pieces. This is not nice, not catchy and not energizing. It is made to make you cry and then bleed in the cold. It will drain you and remove that smile from your face. I'd rather listen to Tumult or Mörser, but Acrid can aptly satisfy an appetite for rapid fire dissonance and violently screamed disgust. Prepare to be assaulted with rusty blades and then trampled upon in an abandoned warehouse. Remove brackets and unzip: [sixsixsixed] !ZER Acrid ZER!