Tag black metal
Hardly surprising but the last and second album ‘Par La Fue’ from French Vampiric council Diablation made my albums of the year list when it was released in 2022. Including members past and present from the likes of Seth, Bâ’a,… Continue Reading →
My final bit of cassette cacophony for the moment is this from Polish/Finnish based raw black metal band Throat. It comprises their debut 2020 demo ‘New Flesh Nectar’ and this year’s EP Blood Exaltation. So to be honest I thought… Continue Reading →
Having a best friend who is heavily invested in Black Metal has always been a blessing, it means he can share his Blackened finds with me and with him I can share my Slamming Death Metal passion. As a result… Continue Reading →
Although only visiting the area briefly long ago, I was aware of the significance of wind as far as the South Of France is concerned and sure enough a bit of research buffeted me in the direction of Le Mistral…. Continue Reading →
Quality over quantity is a popular saying but what if you can have both? Esoctrilihum and the man behind it all, Asthâghul has established himself as perhaps one of the hardest working entities in the Black Metal world. Continually pushing… Continue Reading →
Plying their trade consistently since 2010 with a prolific run of albums and EPs, Ævangelist have long experimented with the boundaries of what constitutes death metal. Indeed, a quick glance at the list of record labels releasing their compositions provides… Continue Reading →
If this German black metal band had been around at the start of the scene in the early 90s we’d be revering them as true pioneers of a genre they have made their own throughout their discography. Each of the… Continue Reading →
Trelldom comprises a trio of luminaries with links to many known names from the Norwegian black metal camp: Gorgoroth, Gaahls Wyrd, God Seed and more. Kristian Eivind Espedal a.k.a. Gaahl himself is a prominent member of the band, which dates… Continue Reading →
This comes with the usual no-nonsense description from the Godz ov War label: “Nasty evil black metal Poland”. No X Factor sob stories here. And we don’t want them either. A bit of research tells me that this is the… Continue Reading →
Eighth album. Eight. Seventeen, eighteen years. First album for four though; a statistic that is oh so prevalent. The plague years. Some descended into denial and conspiracies during the laying of that strata, some stood face to face with the… Continue Reading →
Horna should need no introduction to any fan of extreme music, having been stalwarts of the Finnish, if not global, black metal scene for the last 30 years. During that time, they have unleashed ten studio albums and countless splits,… Continue Reading →
Apparently Tusenårseken means The Thousand Year Oak as this Swedish project helmed by the unbelievably talented Andreas Karlsson, who also has two other acts he runs called Februus and Well Of Depression. This is his third album under this moniker… Continue Reading →