Tag black metal
Always a pleasure when a self-released CD turns up in well done, thoughtful packaging with a good bit of PR stuff and a few stickers thrown in. It just kind of helps convince you that the band have put in… Continue Reading →
I last caught up with these guys three years or so ago when they were still called Elitist and released the album ‘Fear In A Handful Of Dust’, a crust filled noisy and chaotic affair with a good nod towards… Continue Reading →
Ever since I got this bands third album “The Return To Darkness” for review in another publication I have been hooked to their music completely and added to that their triumphant and staggering live performance at Bloodstock Open Air in… Continue Reading →
‘Hrizg’ is Orcish for ‘pain’ apparently, so it’s fitting that the project is a one-man black metal band, hailing in this case from Spain and masterminded by one Erun-Dagoth. Whilst there are some Mediterranean influences to be found however, for… Continue Reading →
I may be going through a phase of listening to black metal bands that melt my brain rather than just melting my face, but how about something that can do both? Step forward Imperial Triumphant who have been finding ways… Continue Reading →
Blood of the Hermit is the second album from Mortualia, the solo project of one of Finnish black metal’s busiest exports, Shatraug (he of Behexen, Horna, Sargeist and umpteen other bands fame). Having been a follower of most of his… Continue Reading →
Cold, crisp melodic black metal here from this Bergen-based troupe, the crystalline-clear chilliness seeming to embody the windswept coastal city from which they hail. ‘Solace’ is the embodiment of a band with firm ideas of how they wish to sound… Continue Reading →
Cursed To See The Future is the US Brooklyn trio’s sophomore full length and I think the word ‘monumental’ was probably invented for it. Six tracks in about fifty minutes is a formidable proposition, especially when it’s built of huge… Continue Reading →
Calling yourself Cemetery Lust and describing your musical style as rapethrash means that you are either going for the antagonistic troll method of gaining notoriety or the misguided fratboy style. With these guys the balance is about 60:40 in favour… Continue Reading →
Here are two tales of New Zealand’s darkest side in the form of a split album. First we have two tracks by Vassafor, starting with “Ossuary in Darkness”. It’s played in the spirit of black metal and makes such anarchic… Continue Reading →
Zgard’s last opus, 2013’s Astral Glow, managed to make it into my top 10 of the year. Its atmospheric pagan black metal had an ambient, almost meditative edge, while at the same time being crammed full of decent, drifting tunes…. Continue Reading →
Three years after The 5th Harmonic Of Death debut album from this Ukrainian duo it’s a welcome return for them with follow up Duality. Multi-instrumentalist Master Alafern is also a member of Thunderkraft and played live in Dub Bak as… Continue Reading →