Tag black metal
When I listened to the sample to Where Emptiness Is All, I was so intrigued I think I responded to the call out within 5 minutes. Now, over a month later, I’m still dragging my feet over concluding a review… Continue Reading →
Have you ever been on a bar crawl in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz? Well you may have seen bearded Bavarian Blacksters V.V. and Sturmwulf propping up a table if you have. They have probably been thrown out of a few… Continue Reading →
I recently finished reading the autobiography of Behemoth’s Nergal, and one of many things which struck me about it was his Polish matter-of-factness. This didn’t surprise me at all. I mention this because it’s the same with productions from the… Continue Reading →
Japanese prog, black mentalists Sigh are not the most prolific touring band and their shows are few and far between. I was lucky enough to catch them way back around 1995 at the long demolished Sir George Robey in Finsbury… Continue Reading →
Unhallowed be thy name… especially as far as practitioners of black metal are concerned. This lot are relatively new, apparently forming in 2021 and with that in mind no surprise that this is their debut release. As for the players… Continue Reading →
We are back in the world of the wyrd wolves from Warsaw and our duo of Louve and Nidhogg show no signs of slowing down. This is their fourth release since 2020 and like its predecessors is no less non-conformist… Continue Reading →
Thy Catafalque, the project of Hungarian artist Tamás Kátai, first captured me with the 2011 album “Rengeteg”, since when each album has brought new delights and wonderments. Soaring blackened metal with folk, cosmic and jazz elements doesn’t cover adequately the… Continue Reading →
It’s only been just over a year since this black horde dropped second album Divinity’s Fall so it’s still nice and rotting in the memory. That doesn’t stop a highly enjoyable refresher course of it for purposes of compare and… Continue Reading →
Toby Knapp could never be accused of lying idle. The American guitar maestro spreads his time across solo projects, Affliktor and his thrashy black metal project, Waxen just to mention a few. “Die Macht Von Hassen” is the sixth release… Continue Reading →
Rana make the sort of glorious racket that slaps you in the face with a velvet gloved hand then caresses you sensually after the blow has fallen. The band ran the gamut of many subgenres of extreme music and take the best… Continue Reading →
This gathering of grave diggers started out in the early 2000’s and have since then amassed five albums of which I note have all been released on different labels. Their latest succinctly entitled ‘Ruins’ sees them on the highly respected… Continue Reading →
With a name referencing one of the biggest fortresses in world of Middle Earth, a casual observer would assume that Germany’s Minas Morgul are a band obsessed with Tolkien and have songs laden with adventure, magic, and epic battle scenes…. Continue Reading →