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Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split
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Review: Gosudar/Malignant Altar – Split EP

21st December 20226th February 2023 James Bullock Death Metal, Gosudar, Malignant Altar, Me Saco Un Ojo Records, Rotted Life Records

The guttural, sludgy death metal of Texas’s Malignant Altar meeting the gloomy majesty of Moscow’s Gosudar seems like a meeting

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Review: Malignant Altar ‘Realms Of Exquisite Morbidity’

13th December 20218th February 2022 Jamie Grimes Dark Descent Records, Death Metal, Malignant Altar

It feels very much like Malignant Altar‘s debut album is one of the very few underground metal debuts in recent

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