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Some bands look to push boundaries, blending genres and constantly evolving their sound, while some are content to stick with tried and tested blueprints. There is nothing wrong with this, but there is a risk that these bands can begin… Continue Reading →
Expectation is a heavy weight and a backstabbing bitch. Just in case you wondered… Right. Destroy is another project by Ville ‘V-KhaoZ’ Pallonen, the absolute master of all things synth in whatever he turns his hand to. His futuristic, decaying… Continue Reading →
Vimur has been on my radar for quite some time though I must admit I’ve not really given them the attention they probably deserve, but this will now change after listening to their fourth magnificent slab of melodic black metal…. Continue Reading →
Halfway into 2024 and the metal world has seen an excellent share of new releases from most genres, particularly black metal’s more up and coming subgenres such as cosmic and oceanic black metal. But in terms of identity, the scene… Continue Reading →
A ‘Malist’ is someone who subscribes to the theory of Malism and therefore believes the doctrine that the world is evil. I’m surprised it hasn’t been adopted by more black metal bands to be honest, but here we are with… Continue Reading →
This is Slovakian black metal band Aeon Winds third (I think) full length in a little over a decade but, as is my wont skulking down in the depths of lo-fi cassette world of late, my first acquaintance. But it… Continue Reading →
Earlier this year we got to grips with Argenthorns album ‘The Ravening’ via Avantgarde music and its symphonic black metal took us off into a dark fantasy world and created a real impact. Now Finnish musician Lord Vrăjitor, also of… Continue Reading →
A jubilant explosion rolls across time and space. It’s the new Mesarthim. Now, Mesarthim has never been ‘trve kvlt’, and it’s been a long time since the Australian enigma has restrained itself to strictly mysterious and/or sorrowful melodies. In this… Continue Reading →
Oh man. That’s it, that’s the review. In all seriousness, I don’t know what else to add. This is a perfect album. You want more? Sure, let me see. Creepy synths? Check. Perfectly shrieky vocals enmeshed with cavernous soliloquys? Check… Continue Reading →
Developing from the much respected, evolving and maturing home of the black arts, Finland, a new spawn is bestowed upon us. Moonlight Sorcery have stepped into the world and delivered to us their second EP since their inception back in… Continue Reading →
Antoine Scholtès from the Clermont-Ferrand region of France has returned with his Atmospheric Black Metal solo project, Inherits the Void. Two years on from his debut full length album ‘Monolith of Light’, his new opus ‘The Impending Fall of the… Continue Reading →
It’s all about blackness and abysses. The artist must have been watching Breakfast TV, or the German equivalent of it. “Reue” (Regret) is Leipa’s second album. The man behind it known as Noise is also responsible for Kanonenfieber, a more… Continue Reading →