Tag black metal
If a band’s looking for a selling point, this is it “This is not elevator music”. That’s their words. They go on: “Trying to perform menial tasks while listening to this album will turn your brain into scrambled eggs”. This… Continue Reading →
Pestilential Shadows have been hammering along since 2003 leaving six quality albums in their wake. The band are apparently part of something called Ordo Ater Anguis (also known as Order of the Black Serpent), a circle of like-minded “satanic” musicians… Continue Reading →
This is heady stuff and music that necessitates the lighting of incense to smother the air with fragrance and thick cloying plumes of smoke. Sol Kia are comprised of two Belgian ritualists Stephane Van Tricht who is responsible for vocals… Continue Reading →
OK so as I write this I have succumbed to the plague. Covid has caught me in its putrefying clutches and I am quarantined and feeling like poop in a scoop. What is needed? Well, the rulebooks say plenty of fluids, rest and vitamin… Continue Reading →
My first club gig in about 18 months couldn’t have got started with a better line-up, but like the ridiculous journey I had to the Lake District for the Northern Darkness Festival it seems the traffic Gods brought down to… Continue Reading →
Glancing out of the hotel window was enough to know that the second day was going to be a damp affair. However, with bands not starting until 6pm it gave our group a chance to head out. But first, no… Continue Reading →
Many bands evolve through their existence and Wormwood are no different. They formed in Sweden in 2014 under the guise of black and roll, they have then tipped their caps to a melodic black metal style before finally settling on… Continue Reading →
A second festival in as many weeks (I was at Bloodstock the previous weekend) has been unheard of in the last 18 months giving me call to venture to the Lake District for a truly unique occasion set within the… Continue Reading →
The band name Dumal apparently is derived from Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs du Mal” (The Flowers of Evil), which I failed to make any sense of while studying it many years ago. I realise most people won’t have this connection and… Continue Reading →
It should come as no real surprise that these particular Sombre Figures reside largely in anonymity. All we have to go on is that they are Finnish and comprise of U on drums and S on everything else. Relatively new… Continue Reading →
I could have sworn I had tackled Dutch ‘whisperers’ Fluisteraars in the past review wise but realised I had been getting them muddled up with countrymen Fluisterwoud who actually split up in 2009. An easy mistake I guess but one… Continue Reading →
Modern Rites are an international band as is increasingly the way these days, comprising Berg from Swiss atmospheric black metal band Aara and Jonny of US experimental metal band Kuyashii. Dark and desolate landscapes are offered and delivered. “Vigilance Eternal”… Continue Reading →