Tag black metal
This arrived like a hammer-bolt from the blue, tail end of the year, no fucks given about getting on any of those pesky album of year lists and at a time when nobody except kvlt labels and black metal edge-lords… Continue Reading →
This here is the debut album from the anonymous entity that is the Serbian CPMT, apparently pronounced SMRT and which translates as Death in most Slavic languages. Lesson over. With a cover that is very much the continuation of their… Continue Reading →
The body of the devil is praised in all its orgiastic pleasures and delights from these sinister Frenchmen. Active since 2008 and with 3 albums prior to this, the band are dedicated practitioners of the dark arts. The strangely entitled… Continue Reading →
This mysterious work, the second from Adoperta Tenebris, just oozes darkness with its pictures of thick forests at dusk. I noted a track called “Vultures of the Mass Grave”. Before it comes “We Were Giants”. The ambiance is that of… Continue Reading →
Funeral winds suggest a black metal work, here with the added proviso that this album is a retrospective look towards desolate landscapes. The track titles are wistful, shadowy affairs, starting with “Black Lore of the Fens”. Now this sinister piece… Continue Reading →
I gave this Spanish act a high praising review back in 2018 for Ave Noctum, and was particularly enamoured by the hostility it waged, yet tinged with a desolation that fills you with dread. The question begging is whether multi-instrumentalist… Continue Reading →
Culminating a consistent year for Belgium label Immortal Frost Productions they turn to homegrown talent from West Flanders in the form of debut album by Darkest Mind. This trio clearly wear their hearts on their sleeves and worship at the… Continue Reading →
It was 2015 since we last heard from these malevolent French destructors. Since they released Xeno Kaos back in 2015 they have marked their 20th anniversary and had a couple of line-up shuffles. Firstly after a few years in the… Continue Reading →
It looks like the black metal seed has fallen on particularly fertile ground in and around the Netherlands. New sprouts keep appearing alongside established plants. And some of the new sprouts are growing nicely and bearing fruit, developing their own,… Continue Reading →
Despite being a bit of a fan of the Quebec scene, Ossuaire were a name I was only vaguely aware of until this EP dropped in my lap. So nice to round out the year with this. ‘A L’Aube Impur’… Continue Reading →
The race to become the most outlandish Metal act seems an unending task when you ponder it, but is it really? Have we reached that peak? Of course I do still hear albums that made me recoil (in a good… Continue Reading →
Goats! Goats! Goaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaats! Bloody everywhere these days. Memes, gifs, movies, tiktok and of course heavy metal. So, it is with an extra packet of animal feed in my pocket I approach Goatcraft. (Have you ever been in a petting zoo with goats? Chaos!). After a listen and some research I… Continue Reading →