Tag black metal
Ah, another ‘band I’ve been aware of but not really engaged with’ time. Fear and Trembling (so says Google) and apparently pagan black metal. My experience of Trollzorn bands is that they dont tend to sign yer actual bestial bm… Continue Reading →
The last couple of Black Anvil albums had a mixed reception here, that’s not all that surprising and I think the comment that ‘There are too many disparate and conflicting elements” in regard to last one ‘As Was’ kind of… Continue Reading →
Twenty four long and somewhat spartan years after inception, Copenhagen’s Black/Death Metal juggernaut Strychnos have finally unleashed their debut album upon the world. Entitled ‘A Mother’s Curse’ and featuring eight gruelling odes of intensity and belligerence, and has been released… Continue Reading →
I have been looking forward to this it should be said. I’m a fan of the band, love their intense live performances and they are interesting people to boot. Consisting of Shayan (vocals, guitar and also a fascinating esoteric podcast… Continue Reading →
Manifesting seemingly out of nowhere, Gospelheim from Manchester have made some waves with their debut album Ritual & Repetition recently released by Prophecy Productions. Their sound mixture, which is build from goth rock, heavy metal, doom and black metal, featuring,… Continue Reading →
Here we are back in the shadowy Swiss enclave of the Helvetic Underground Committee and in the grand scheme of things the duo behind Ateiggär (Initiator of ideas) must be overlords of the organisation. Both are in Arkhaaik, Kvelgeyst, Ungfell… Continue Reading →
Ever since I got my hands on a copy of 2020’s Fragment: Erhabenheit I have been hooked on this Austrian black metal horde so I jumped at the chance to review the latest spawn from these black arts purveyors, Theotoxin…. Continue Reading →
The time has come oh timid reader, to talk of many things, of Spice Girls, Biebers, Kanye Wests, the cabbages who sing…Erm sorry but this is not the easiest of things to approach and my head is a little bit… Continue Reading →
Nighted made me feel old. The intro to ‘Aeons’ the first offering is distorted electronica which plunges into a hellbent riff and suddenly I’m back to early Necromantia circa Scarlet Evil Witching Black; great driving black metal with weird electronic… Continue Reading →
This quartet out of Philly have taken a considerable amount of time perfecting their craft as this, their debut full-length comes a full five years after the ‘Pulsing Dark Absorptions’ of its previous EP. With no less than three members… Continue Reading →
London-based She Must Burn release their second album with “Umbra Mortis”, and are probably as well known for their live playing, having amongst other things supported Cradle of Filth and Carnifex, and having appeared at Download. Not much information comes… Continue Reading →
Black metal and I have a tricky relationship. On the one hand, I like quite a bit of the output of the bigger “names” in the scene, especially the classic era of Norwegian Black Metal and some of the Black… Continue Reading →