Tag black metal
Atmosphere and intensity and much black metal can be expected on this, the fourth album from Norway’s Vredehammer. Let the nightmare begin. The sinister and darkly orchestral intro over, a thunderous metal wind blows up. The drums pound mercilessly. All… Continue Reading →
Hey, it’s not all doom and gloom round here and this one has an overriding feel of joie de vivre about it. We are off to SW France and Gascony where this side project of Boisson Divine dwell. Don’t expect… Continue Reading →
The PR muttered something about Danish band Strychnos being bound to no god, master or genre which amusingly is binding itself to a cliché by now. But nowt to do with band or album. So… not having heard their 2022… Continue Reading →
Mysticism and nature make for good bedfellows and so too do the bands on this split album, embracing the raptures of the elements through atmospheric black metal. The drab colours of the artwork may have you envisaging the cold, dark… 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 →
I rarely get to review metal albums from my native side of Europe. Why? Well, there are a couple of reasons. Firstly, I am always ideologically suspicious. Call me a cynic, but coming from Eastern Europe doesn’t give me a… Continue Reading →
The most unusual thing about depressive black metal force, Dødsfesrd is how you would most certainly presume they were Scandinavian owing to the band name. However, the mysteriousness of the name does not rob the band from perfecting all elements… 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 →
Exploring themes as various as modern-day warmongering, space colonisation and declining mental health, progressive black metal band Svneatr are here releasing their third album. Solid and heavy is “Mechanical Wolves”, which gets us under way. This is a heavy metal… Continue Reading →
Sometimes, when you review albums, it seems to take forever to pick apart a release enough to get some idea of where its creators are coming from. After all, a big part of reviewing – especially in metal – is… 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 →
After “dissolving” Asphodèle after just one album it’s as though vocalist Spellbound had something to prove. Quickly forming Jours Pâles he has gone into full creative mode releasing three albums in just over three years and the latest is another… Continue Reading →