Tag black metal
Heathen Deity. With their debut album True English Black Metal out at last and the genuinely fantastic reviews rolling in, we were keen to get some words from this uncompromising band. So, a tentative message, a little fear and gratefully… Continue Reading →
Verging on a black metal super group if you will, Night Crowned are made up of fragments of Aeon, Dark Funeral, Cipher System and Night Rage to echo but a few of the CV’s on show within their realms. Born… Continue Reading →
If you are standing at the entrance to a labyrinth, you are no doubt expecting that there is a good chance of getting lost as you go in and start to explore. That’s part of the fun unless you are… Continue Reading →
This band, which seems to amount to one person, is from Cuba and this is black metal. “Monotony” is Shrine ov Absurd’s second album release. I suppose an album called “Monotony” isn’t going to have colourful titles, and this doesn’t…. Continue Reading →
“Rok Spokojnego Słońca” (The Year of the Quiet Sun) is the fourth album from black metallers Jarun. But as I was to discover, this is far more than bog standard black metal. The lingering strains of death hang in the… Continue Reading →
This Polish black metal band can be summed up as follows: melodic anger with a wealth of expression. It is not often I delve into this world for reviews, I normally keep this experience personal. However, I found favour with… Continue Reading →
The Polish she-wolves that are Louve (all instruments) and Nidhogg (vocals) and this time with Vor on drums are back. Having knocked out a couple of releases in 2020 they are working fast and hard to bring us more music… Continue Reading →
Despite having been around for a few years, this is Felled’s first full-length release and my first encounter with them. However, the press info was full of superlatives and hyperbole drawing me in enough to make me put my hand… Continue Reading →
A single piece of “sonic sorcery” is the offering from atmospheric black metal band Sea Mosquito. It’s a 23-minute piece though, and a very interesting piece at that. Building up with the drum sounding like a rapid heartbeat, “Fire, Magic… Continue Reading →
“Rawness is balanced with atmosphere”, explains Burning Darkness’s frontman. The story goes that this second album from the Swedes mixes in horror, Norse folklore and a more melodic progressive element to the known formula of black and blacker metal. The… Continue Reading →
Well, I knew this was going to be a beasty that was going to be hard to contain! It was last summer when Aberdeen based band Cyclops Cataract dropped their debut EP ‘Swallow The World’ and it proved to be… Continue Reading →
OK let’s address this quickly first. They use a “v” instead of a “u”. Aaaargh. This much is troooooooo I know I know I know this much is trooooooo! Right, that is out of the way – onto the tunes. Dark, drugged out Satanic Black… Continue Reading →