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Black-and-white cover artwork for Slagmaur’s Hulders Ritual, showing a cloaked figure reaching toward a horned sheep in a rural landscape, with the text “I do admire a man who undersells.”

Slagmaur – Hulders Ritual

Slagmaur lured me in with sheep, hit me with distorted forest madness, and somehow ended up as the first item on my Fortress 2027 homework list.

Dark black-and-gray abstract background with white typewriter text reading Enunciation: meticulous.

Mork – Monolitt

Mork’s Monolitt landed in my inbox two days before release. I accepted it blind, because apparently black metal brand loyalty is a thing I do now. Here’s the Keeper entry. It includes crushing riffs, excellent diction, one very large rock, and a deeply undignified amount of excitement about Hamburg.

Album cover of Mork's album Det Svarte Juv

Mork - Det Svarte Juv

A cold, melodic deep-dive into Mork’s Det Svarte Juv—the Norwegian black metal album that kicked off my now very real obsession. With chocolate.