Tag black metal
We are slightly late to this particular funeral. Mind you the same could be said for the cult Italian act who have been relatively quiet as far as new studio material has been concerned after last album ‘Spiritual Independence’ in… Continue Reading →
While the year is coming to its end and everybody is reading or writing best-of-the-year lists and catching up on what they might have missed, some bands are making their first public steps. Bad timing, some might say, from a… Continue Reading →
After eight years smouldering, 2023 saw a re-stoking the infernal fires from US thirty plus year veterans of the black metal world Demoncy. They released an album this year and now this EP sneaks in at the end. So we… Continue Reading →
I was interested to hear this as it is along with Häxanu, Krieg, Skáphe and Chaos Moon one of many projects from US guitarist Alex Poole. Jack Blackburn drummer here has almost as many on the go himself and here… Continue Reading →
A feast of both clear and opaque cinematic visions is promised on this third album release from Finland’s Vargrav. With two members of Moonsorrow and a vast number of projects among the four band members, it’s not surprising that this… Continue Reading →
In my wanderings around South East Asia, and in particular Singapore and Malaysia, I’m surprised I hadn’t come across Infernal Execrator. Comprising Kommando Antichristo, Christslaughter, Halphas D. Nihilist and Lord Ashir, the band has been in existence since 2005 and… Continue Reading →
Going back almost 40 years, I was staying in a remote area of Iceland called Lake Mývatn and I saw a glow in the distance from my room. When I enquired about it, I was told there’d been a volcanic… Continue Reading →
I’ve just been listening to an Iblis Manifestations podcast (Shayan from Trivax’s podcast, shout out for him) where Shayan and Cult Never Dies boss Dayal Patterson and the particular segment concerning what is black metal and what the attitude of… Continue Reading →
A band which suggests succession to bands such as Anorexia Nervosa, Emperor, Dissection and others is of interest to me. Deathcode Society is such a band. This album promises “a musical journey through …. this gloomy maze where psychosis, murderous… Continue Reading →
There’s an old saying in the performing arts world I came across some time ago: “It takes ten years to become an overnight success.” And that has been somewhat true for Master’s Call, the Wolverhampton based black/death collective who have… Continue Reading →
Canada is one of the biggest nations of the world and with that comes the vast diversity of many ethnic groups such as the native tribes who predated its colonisation, but also the French Canadian contingent which is almost a… Continue Reading →
Although Impalement’s debut ‘The Impalement’ wasn’t spawned until 2020, the origins of the band date back much further to 2010 when Beliath first began composing music. In the following ten years he toured relentlessly with other bands developing his expertise… Continue Reading →