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BLACK METAL REVIEWS: If your band creates high quality black metal and you want HELL FURNACE to consider your music for review, use the request form below. Important: include a myspace link or other link to samples of your music.
We ONLY review music that we GENUINELY enjoy.
That means no negative/bad reviews ever appear in our zine. We may include small criticisms, but overall our reviews are positive because we really like the music.
Why do we do this?
1. We don’t have time to review music we don’t enjoy. So we spend our limited time reviewing stuff we really like.
2. We could NEVER fake a positive review of music we don’t like – so we simply won’t review it.
3. We don’t want you to waste money shipping us promos that we won’t review.

I admit I was more than a little sceptical when I got a request to review this Italian band. I wasn’t sure what to expect from a band that sounded more like some American gospel singers than satanic Black Metal! Thankfully after literally one second of listening my somewhat ridiculous assumptions were raped and pillaged [...]
I only recently discovered Rahu, who purvey original and very replayable Finish Black Metal of the highest calibre. This is a demo from 2008 that has since been released as part of a best of featuring this and their other demo on one CD. Although there are only three tracks delivering a mere seventeen minutes [...]