Tag black metal
US black metal often struggles to get the same kudos as its European counterparts. Sure, USBM is not without its charge-leading anti-heroes but take any top fifty black metal albums and you’d struggle to find more than a couple of… Continue Reading →
Consisting of members with three different nationalities, Tortorum proves one thing: that for all its negativity and anti-humanism, the sound of True Norwegian Black Metal can be a unifying force. Barghest (England) and Skyggen (Poland) – creators of this Bergen-based… Continue Reading →
I have to say, before I listened to this cd, I first looked these guys up and found this quote on metal Archives; “Adamus Exul are strictly apolitical, performing and promoting misanthropic and anti-social black metal art forms only” I… Continue Reading →
Nobody would really have expected that this USBM meeting of minds would have made it to a third album and be signed by Century Media when they released their debut self-titled album back in 2005. It was an album that… Continue Reading →
There isn’t a massive amount of information about on Profezia, they’re far too kvlt for that. However, what I have managed to cobble together is that it’s mainly the project of Kvasir (also of Italians Abhor) these days, although in… Continue Reading →
Consisting of two stalwarts of the European black metal scene – namely Lykormas and Vulfolaic (which other band(s) they have been in is shrouded in mystery…) – Entartung now finds itself on album number two. A quick scan of online… Continue Reading →
Although this is their second album, I don’t recall crossing the lonely path of this one man Siberian atmospheric black metal band before. I’m quite glad I have now though. We get a gentle, melancholic intro with ‘The Dance Of… Continue Reading →
Janvs unwittingly encountered some form of infamy when an ex editor of a well-known printed publication caught them up in an act of Antifa cleansing as having NS sympathies. Although this was hotly disputed the ban hammer had struck and… Continue Reading →
If we can, for a moment, try to divide the output of the extreme metal scene into the good, the bad and the downright ugly, there is absolutely no question that that Howls of Ebb fall headlong into the foul… Continue Reading →
Hailing from Dublin, Aeternum Vale have been making a racket on the UK and Irish underground scene in the past couple of years with their brand of Celtic black metal. Drawing high praise for their live shows and from touring… Continue Reading →
Bloodway are a new project who burst forth from the creative sac of Costin Chioreanu, Romanian artist and musician. His past works have included guitars for Mediocracy and Protest Urban, bass for Cap De Craniu and Deviant and a myriad of… Continue Reading →
I was not just surprised by Goatcraft’s 2013 debut album All For Naught, but also rather taken with its idiosyncratic approach of sole member and US based Lonegoat obsessively hammering away at his piano with little other accompaniment. This approach… Continue Reading →