Tag black metal
`Remnants of Forgotten Horrors’ is a remarkably apt name for this, the debut album of Swedish band Astrophobos (named after an H.P. Lovecraft poem). This album absolutely and totally harks back to a time when this youthful band were probably … Continue Reading →
It’s fair to say that most books and indeed films tackling the subject of black metal are woefully inadequate. They are either put together by outsiders trying to look in and not fully understanding or integrating with the subject matter,… Continue Reading →
Debut album by this Swedish mob. They have alumni from the 90s black metal scene in ex-members of Vinterland and early Maze Of Torment, they did a split with Shining in 2013 and they have coaxed guest appearances from Shining’s… Continue Reading →
Ekove Efrits along with Silent Path are projects conceived by Iranian ‘Count De Efrit,’ or Saman N. I am not entirely sure if he operates from within Iran and if he does I am sure a certain amount of ambiguity… Continue Reading →
This atmospheric BM duo hail from St Petersburg. A, takes on all instruments whilst K supplies the vocals. Very Men in Black! Their second release is Immersion on Naturmacht Productions. Them’s the facts now onto an opinion. This 4 track… Continue Reading →
Kampfar has always been one of the most individual and underrated bands in the black metal pantheon and the impossibly high benchmark by which I judge all things pagan and folk metal. I’ve put the first four albums so high… Continue Reading →
If you like your black metal to feel particularly barbed with spiteful venom then you are totally in the right place with Finnish mob Graveborne. Their debut album ‘Pure Negativity’ made their intentions clear on release in 2011 and listening… Continue Reading →
OK, so this is a rather daunting proposition – one 19-minute track bringing together the raw, bass-heavy black metal obscurity of Beglium’s Alkerdeel with the sickening noisescapes of Gnaw Their Tongues. It’s certainly an intriguing idea – Alkerdeel have been… Continue Reading →
From the progressive end of the impressive Greek black metal spectrum come Aenaon. This is their second album. With strong instrumentals and exaggerated swathes of darkness at the heart, “Extance” spends around an hour covering a lot of ground. To… Continue Reading →
The history of Manes is such that it could fill a whole review. Suffice to say that this band from Trondheim in Norway has been around on and off since 1993, since when it has developed from black metal roots… Continue Reading →
The re-release of the 1998 ‘A Fallen Temple’ is my first review for 2014. This being the fourth SepticFlesh album, it contains re-recordings from their 1991 début EP ‘Temple of the Lost Race’, which are the harsher, simpler and more… Continue Reading →
‘Nedom og Nord’ is the latest album from Norwegian melodic black metal crew Iskald (with Iskald roughly translating to ‘Ice cold’ – but you probably worked that out anyway). This is their fourth foray into full length album territory, and… Continue Reading →