Tag black metal
Taking their name from a stream of stars and matter from the trailing arm spiralling out towards the end of the milky way, Scutum Crux are a band that if you go to underground shows in London, chances are you… Continue Reading →
Great album cover. Let’s get that out of the way now – a brooding, immense painting of a cavernous underground temple with only a few thin shafts of light penetrating the murk, it’s a hark back to the days of… Continue Reading →
Not many bands can claim to have launched their own official beer. Unearthly from Brazil can do that. The reason is that this band has become legendary in South American metal circles. In existence since 1998, “Flagellum Dei” is their… Continue Reading →
A split from two acts from Chile shows what is involved when playing truly vitriolic black metal that involves no pissing about with keyboards or silly arrangements, just a straight forward malevolent annihilation that begins with Hades Archer’s blackened thrash… Continue Reading →
‘Mysterious duo ‘. Oft used words but in this case well used as aside from the record label sheet and webpage, I could find very fuck all about them. They are apparently Russian, this is their debut EP and it… Continue Reading →
When it was announced that God Seed would be playing this small corner of the world, I was mildly astonished. Supporting a more established albeit very different metal band (Cult Of Luna) naturally helped a great deal to get the… Continue Reading →
If it’s French and it’s black metal then it is bound to be strange, weird or even plain bizarre and whilst not as bizarre as some French black metal beasts out there it’s close enough to bamboozle the listener with… Continue Reading →
“I look forward to next instalment from this extreme and alternative band” was how I signed off “Prelude to Apocalypse” (2012). Well, the Apocalypse has arrived in the form of this 79 minute work by the Slovakian-Polish duo comprising Abbey… Continue Reading →
Writing music is the main focus of this trio from the South Dakotan Black Hills and in doing so they have released three albums. This is the second of them originally self-released in 2012 but now getting the reissue treatment… Continue Reading →
I’m not sure if I’ve been paying more attention than normal over the past few months and burrowing into those dark corners to find new and interesting stuff, but 2014 is slowly but surely turning out to be one hell… Continue Reading →
After originally starting up in 2001, Gravehill decided to call it quits before even releasing an album and it wasn’t until 2007 that the US band reformed. Since then, three albums have been released and despite a lack of interest… Continue Reading →
This is the eighth album from Austria’s Dornenreich. The track titles are evocative enough, translating into English as “Of Power and Desire and Young Feathers”, “The Light trusts the Night”, “In the Flow of Flames”, “Dream of Dreams” etc. The… Continue Reading →