Tag Belgium
However varied or morose and dark metal can be, one thing that unites all forms of metal is a fan’s need to have a good time through their favourite audible artform. There are plenty of bands in the world today… Continue Reading →
If any season is the right one for Doom/Death, it has to be autumn, doesn’t it? The sunlight is fading, the skies – to be frank – are right now full of rain clouds and the temperature has dropped. Leaves… Continue Reading →
There’s something fetid in the fields of Flanders as Belgian iconoclasts Ars Veneficium dig up their third album and successor to 2020 release ‘Usurpation Of The Seven.’ Founding members S and Ronarg have this time been joined by Flo Musil… Continue Reading →
Now on their fourth album, Belgian progressive stoner rock band My Diligence have stayed with the same line-up since coming together in 2015. The latest album “Death.Horses.Black” is described as a blend of genres, including post-metal, psych-metal, doom and shoegaze…. Continue Reading →
The amount of bands, projects both past and present that Belgian Déhà is involved in is nothing short of stupefying. Under his own named project he put out around 13 releases last year and rest assured if not playing or… Continue Reading →
It’s off to Belgium with this split album which encompasses two projects tied together by musician René Thuys aka Ronarg. He’s evidently a busy artist as he recently put out a debut album under the name Bloedmaan called ‘Castle Inside… Continue Reading →
Belgium like all other European nations has birthed its fair share of atmospheric black metal over the past decade or so, when the genre became particularly popular. But like all metal genres, for every gem of audible beauty there are… Continue Reading →
One of the intriguing things about black metal is its continual evolution, with many “black metal” bands now being completely unrecognisable from the genre’s (and indeed their own) roots having gone down countless other paths such as symphonic, atmospheric, ambient,… Continue Reading →
Firstly, I have to say what wonderful artwork here. I’m all the more impressed when I saw that it is actually painted by the musician in question himself. It has a feeling of Vampiric nostalgia about it and it could… Continue Reading →
Clearly I’ve been sleeping on ROTDH as despite three albums in six years this is my introduction to this member of The Nox Entity collective. A quick scan of the members indicates pretty much what I would very respectfully call… Continue Reading →
Perhaps one of the bigger faces of modern Death Metal are Aborted. From their destructive debut The Purity Of Perversion to their classic Goremageddon and beyond, they have proven their worth time and time again. They’re a band who also… Continue Reading →
Belgian black metal is on the rise. No longer is it just Enthroned, Possession, and is-it-black-metal-is-it-not Oathbreaker. Alkerdeel and Wolvennest have been making the rounds of the international underground for the past 10 or so years. Emptiness’s Nothing But The… Continue Reading →