Tag black metal
I don’t know of this particular project before I received this, but the description that went with is intriguing: “Doomjazz mercilessly mixed with the ambience of Black Metal, Gregorian soprano singing juxtaposed with unholy cavernous screams”. It’s all inspired by… Continue Reading →
This is the third album release by Québec-based Acédia in their eleven years of existence. The fact that they produce black metal is no surprise, given the pedigree of the region in this genre, but Acédia are known for the… Continue Reading →
I was trying to explain to a friend the situation that we find ourselves in with now having both The Antichrist Imperium and Akercocke as going concerns, but in the end as his brain was hurting I just kinda settled… Continue Reading →
This album may be about the area between life and death but this band from the Netherlands decidedly plays black metal.” Façade” is Asgrauw’s fifth album release. Anger and slashing people with razors is the thought that came into my… Continue Reading →
Active since 2006, despite title, this is actually the fifth album from French duo ACOD and their first for LADLO. They are described as playing black and death metal and I noted that that Jérome of the highly regarded Celestia… Continue Reading →
I’m just going to come out the gate with this, it’s bad. This eponymous EP is a big fat failure from new black metal band Pyra. There is extremely little background information about this band, the most I could really… Continue Reading →
I’ve not given Germany’s Firtan much listening since they formed over a decade ago where they subsequently released a couple of EPs and two full lengths. Their last album ‘Okeanos’ was a fine a release however and catching them in… Continue Reading →
“Givre” means frost in French, which gives an immediate clue as to what to expect. The band from the French-Canadian black metal factory have released two previous albums. I don’t know what the longest ever track title is but the… Continue Reading →
I know that “lagu” means song in Malay. The “song” in this case comes from French band Caïnan Dawn who bring us meditative cold wave black metal music, tales of immersive vastness and infinite waves of the soul. It starts… Continue Reading →
The Gaerea debut album back in 2018 feels like a lifetime ago now, with the world having seemingly stopping for a couple of years due to the pandemic. Nonetheless, during that time Portugal’s Gaerea have dragged themselves from the dark… Continue Reading →
By way of preparation for this album, I listen to this Polish artist’s earlier EP “Inter Spem et Metum”. Utterly dark, violent in parts and straight out of the playbook of dirty blackened death, it is impressive. For “Temporal Capsule”… Continue Reading →
Despite this being their, what, seventh full album I don’t recall ever having even heard of Hetroertzen (originally from Chile, now based in Sweden it seems) – but that’s neither here nor there in the world of black metal. What… Continue Reading →