Tag black metal
It’s been two years since the brilliantly self-deprecatingly titled “Anti Christian Douchebags” by Sweden’s Wan. This E.P is more of the same – dirty thrashy punky Black Metal. If you are a fan of the Japanese bands Sabbat and Abigail… Continue Reading →
Watch out, things are about to go thermonuclear! Grave Heresy from Sweden present the second example of what I would class War Metal from this distinguished Polish label recently. If you were mad enough to play this album back to… Continue Reading →
While it may seem as though some Norwegian black metal bands have long hiatuses between releases and tours, the reality is that the scene is a perpetually thriving beast with members playing in several bands, allowing them to explore different… Continue Reading →
This Irish trio are, relatively speaking, a newish band formed in 2019 with this being their second EP. Repose were nice enough to send a lovely purple cassette version of this so of course it is only right I picked… Continue Reading →
Hot on the heels of this band’s EP “IEI” comes this album. That EP hit us like a blunt sword, indulging in a vibrant form of black metal not unlike Windir, while plunging along the way into atmospheric melancholy. No… Continue Reading →
A CD arrived of this, always nice when that happens, and from the stark and somewhat primitive cover and an origin of Finland I was expecting the music to be somewhat savage. Opener ‘Riimunviiltäjät’ is certainly raw and with a… Continue Reading →
I remember this Swedish duo’s debut self-titled album of 2013 which followed on from a slew of demos released from the very start of the Millennium. Now another decade later, which in the meantime saw them apparently release a second… Continue Reading →
A new black metal project by multi-instrumentalist Tom O’Dell of UK power metallers Battle Born, this kind of piqued my interest by the traditional means of a kind of title reminiscent of many old black metal albums somehow. Neat cover,… Continue Reading →
I seem to have hit a peak of bleak with my review picks of late and knew that with Swiss “Extinction Advocates” ColdCell in front of me that little in the way of light would be shining through. No point… Continue Reading →
This Norwegian band is likely to get a lot of attention because of the band members within it. With such luminaries as Frost (Satyricon) and Anders Odden (Cadaver) the pedigree of the band is in no doubt. Ulvehunger blends the… Continue Reading →
Even taking into account those involved in the non-conventionality of extreme music Martin Lang sticks out as being a real maverick and outsider with his art. Todesstoß have been delivering a musical ‘death-blow’ since around 2000 and under Lang’s tutelage… Continue Reading →
Despite the title this is actually album number four from Uprising, the rabble rousing project from Winterherz of Waldgeflüster. Personally enjoying album number II but missing the intermediate bridge between this and that, the re-amped and remixed ‘Uprising I.I’ I… Continue Reading →