Forbidden Knowledge: A Growing Archive of Sin

Sardonic Allegiance — Coast I Review

Sardonic Allegiance provides the listener with not just music but a dark, cinematic journey through a realm of shadows of darkness

Needless — Premonition Review

Needles invites the listener into a nihilistic storytelling, evoking a sense of ancient worlds unravelling, cosmic cycles, and existential collapse.

Padus — Il Diavolo E Il Tecnezio Review

Padaus merges doom metal with dark ambient elements, crafting a sonic environment that feels simultaneously oppressive and hypnotic…

Padus — Opera Funebre Review

Padaus is filled with cemeteries, cemetery art, the dark atmospheres of cemeteries and the mysterious phenomenon of metaphony.

Urku Llanth — Anku Review

Urku Llanthu is a ritualistic soundscape, weaving Andean melodies, ethereal synth, and ancestral rhythms into a meditative sonic journey

Wax Mekanix — 420 Review

Wax Mekanix’s 420 is a dynamic fusion of nostalgic rock energy and infectious melodies, capturing the essence of carefree escapism. With a vibrant interplay of acoustic and electric guitars…

Blood Of Artemis — Fading in Silence Review

Blood Of Artemis is a slow descent into forgotten temples and moonlit forests, where sorrow lingers and silence weighs heavier than death.

Reject The Sickness — Signs of the End…

Reject the Sickness provides the listener with a fearsome, gritty and dark atmosphere that establishes a chilling tension, while showcases brutality and melody.

Shrouded In Darkness — 11:11 Review

Shrouded In Darkness continues their signature of pure Heavy Darkness! This latest offering further solidifies their reputation for delivering pure, unrelenting darkness.

Vile Haint — Abound With Malice Review

Vile Haint is not for the faint-hearted, nor is it a leisurely listen—instead. Music that raw, haunted, chilling, eerie, dissonant and avant-garde

Encelado — Pillars of Creation Review

Encelado delivers a relentless four-track barrage of aggression and brutality… …themes on space travel, artificial intelligence, human consciousness, and death.

Xenos A.D. – Reqviem for the Oppressor Review

Xenos A.D. is a relentless, neck-breaking thrash metal assault, with a concept that is inextricably linked to war and its horrors, and it is expressed through the 9 tracks of the album.

Eleventh Ray – Reviving Tehom Review

Eleventh Ray is deeply rooted in dark magic and Typhonian alchemy, aiming to create a “black magical death/thrash/black metal”

Oskrnavitelj – Pradavni Review

Oskrnavitelj delivers a raw, atmospheric and old-school sound, evoking the feeling of being captured in the cold and dark wilderness of the unknown…

HellLight – We, the Dead Review

HellLight is a cosmic sorrow and spiritual desolation. Suffering, grief, darkness, being, and silence—it’s music composed for contemplation, not therapy.