Tag black metal
Good luck to anyone trying to keep up with Spider God as G their arachnid muse never stops spinning his musical web. Since 2020 there have been a staggering 26 releases (according to Metal Archives) of varying lengths and types… Continue Reading →
I am familiar with this band and their two previous albums prior to this EP, and can say from past experience that they leave no stone unturned. Both were hard, fast, menacing and punishing but in a way that as… Continue Reading →
Towards the end of last year, I found myself reviewing what was easily the strangest album (I use the term loosely, quite frankly) I’ve encountered in many a long year. It wasn’t an album in the traditional sense, but rather… Continue Reading →
I can’t be absolutely sure when Ploughshare formed but this Australian group put their first EP Literature Of Piss out in 2017 and thus followed some acclaim for the band’s debut full length In Offal, Salvation. Since then they have… Continue Reading →
This is the fifth album by Germany’s Chaos Invocation who I was introduced to on their second album ‘Black Mirror Hours’ and reviewed for the site back in 2013. I have kept up with the band since as each subsequent… Continue Reading →
It pains me beyond compare to know that the far right is on the rise again across Europe and, at the time of writing this review, has once again taken over the most notorious and dangerous nation on the planet…. Continue Reading →
Greece, one of the most intriguing and influential nations of Europe in all areas of art, history, culture and science. And it also has a fascinating history in terms of black metal and other extreme metal communities. Said influence can… Continue Reading →
It’s been a while since we heard from Time Lurker and multi-instrumentalist Mick. The last release was a split EP with Cepheide in 2019 but now he is back from journeying through the space time continuum with second album ‘Emprise’…. Continue Reading →
Time to dip into a world of “plague, diseases, and strange afflictions” and although centred musically via the format of medieval sound, the narrative here is linked to the present satirically and more recent viral concerns. The members of these… Continue Reading →
The description of this is “Polish black metal”, and everything about the packaging of CD that came to enable this review speaks “black metal”. Rarog’g has been around for 20 years, during which time they have released three albums including… Continue Reading →
Sometimes I wonder why I make things so hard for myself as a reviewer, other times I know. It’s the latter case here, really. Paysage D’Hiver are a name that has been on my peripheral vision for three or four… Continue Reading →
Not much info seems to be available on this new project although we are informed it is an international entity. The rather long word of their name seems to translate to “Slur” and narratively here we are dealing with themes… Continue Reading →