Tag black metal
This may be a newly formed trio but the US band members are extremely well established in a host of other acts such as Ashen Horde, Catheter and Vimana. Such experience is always going to bear fruit when three such… Continue Reading →
The Antiq label is one dedicated, in their own words, to “sound, image, video and attitude”. Silhouette sound just right to fit right in with their “dreams and visions about distant people” and “fantomatic shapes”. Yet this Montellier-based band plays… Continue Reading →
It’s thanks to writing reviews that I know about Hegerøth, and I have to say that from what I’ve heard so far, they are incapable of a bad album. This is a black metal band with control over its music,… Continue Reading →
Ever had the feeling you’re on to a hiding to nothing with trying to review an album? I was so taken with the last album by Finnish black metal/dungeon synth project Druadan Forest (the domain of V-Khaoz) that I bought… Continue Reading →
Having been relatively quiet since releasing third album “Ye Canariae Abezan” in 2017, Muert emerge from the Spanish underground once more. Formed in 2010 and describing themselves as “Canarian Terror Metal”, their raw, aggressive musical aesthetic is seemingly at odds… Continue Reading →
Mon dieu, it’s time for the crazed carnival that is Pensees Nocturnes once more. Their last album ‘Grand Guignol Orchestra’ took us on a madcap ride on the waltzer and ended with the Magic Roundabout theme and this one starts… Continue Reading →
For some reason the Finnish black metal scene has always held something above other black metal scenes in other countries, I am not quite sure what it is that attracts me to the bands from the frosty country but one… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a Latin quote attributed to Cicero and the theme of this album from Mesopotamian mythology and the epic odyssey of Gilgamesh it is obvious that this German based outfit have an interest in history and ancient… Continue Reading →
This hard to pronounce Belgian trio burst pretty much from out of nowhere back in 2015 with the 1st part of their conceptual trio of albums ‘De doden hebben het goed’. Anyone who heard it knew that great things lay… Continue Reading →
Nine tracks of Alaskan black metal sounds harsh in every way, and this is what Rübezahl bring us here. This is their full album release but they did put out an EP “Tempering of Northern Iron” in 2019. It all… Continue Reading →
Once upon a time I would only really care for Black Metal in the winter. Then again when I refer to such instances I was a teenager, living at home, travelling to gigs on my own etc and because of… Continue Reading →
Having previously plucked bass for French sludge outfit Overmars throughout the noughties, Marion Leclercq brings us the sophomore full-length from her solo project, a full five years after the well-received debut. Opener “The Descent” is driven mostly by oppressive doomy… Continue Reading →