Tag black metal
In this household we rate Moonlight Sorcery. This household being that of the present writer. Last year I interviewed them for Metal Rules and one of my questions was about blue and purple album covers being guaranteed success in black… Continue Reading →
Described as the kings of Dutch black metal Salacious Gods have hardly been lording it over their realm having gone pretty much AWOL since last album ‘Piene’ way back in 2005. Although material for this album was written back in… Continue Reading →
Another day, another band with undisclosed members. This time they spring from Oranssi Pazuzu, Seth and ‘other undisclosed bands’. Fair enough and also if you like either of those two bands I’d advise you to run out and buy this,… Continue Reading →
There probably couldn’t have been a more appropriate album to review for Ave Noctum than this which is my 666th album review for the site. This is the second time I’ve reviewed a Ruin Lust album with the first being… Continue Reading →
Not really knowing what “baroque black metal is”, I discovered early on that it is a turbulent and frantic adrenaline-related offering at least according to Sühnopfer who throw the kitchen sink at it with odd folksy touches, while adding some… Continue Reading →
I do like bands that have some meaning behind their monikers which this Belgian band has with their band name. According to Guillaume Cazalet aka CZLT, it is a transference from Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism as Pisces Aries. In fact if you… Continue Reading →
With a name like Dismal Aura one may well anticipate a band playing atmospheric doom or DSBM but that’s not exactly what we get here. This trio from Ottawa are a politicised musical weapon tackling subject matter such as colonialism,… Continue Reading →
My English professor at university was very fond of well-written opening lines. For him, the beginning of a story, book or drama had to contain the crux of the piece, introduce the main character(s) or hint at the plot in… Continue Reading →
That’s some cover up there isn’t it? I think occult obsessed Trivax have a statement to make ladies and gentlemen.. Heh. I wonder if there are any people out there who bought the debut Trivax album back in 2016 but… Continue Reading →
Mankind is committed to a cyclic process, making the same mistakes over and over again. This is one of the themes of this album and you simply know that it is going to be an angry affair from one glance… Continue Reading →
I still fondly remember those early ‘Imrama’ shows put on by The Devil’s Church in London when Primordial, fresh off the ferry from Ireland, were just creating a stir in the underground. Was it really almost 30 years ago their… Continue Reading →
The question on everyone’s lips… does the world really need another Mayhem live album? Well.. perhaps. The glut of nostalgic Mayhem live releases in recent years have almost exclusively documented recordings from 1990, the notable (yet equally nostalgic) exception being… Continue Reading →