Tag black metal
I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Four, five years since I first experience their battering ram sound live at Warhorns. Others have been waiting longer, since 1998 in fact. But this is finally it after all that has… Continue Reading →
This debut album by Polish band Hore is characterised as post-black metal, avant-garde jazz and film music. True to their label, the title means “The Witch Sisters”. The album starts in heavy sombre tones. The atmosphere is funereal, save the… Continue Reading →
From Ottawa, Ontario, come The Ember, The Ash, a one-person project I had not encountered so far. The individual who does everything here, and everything includes recording and mixing, goes by the name of 鬼, which in Japanese means “demon”… Continue Reading →
What the Dar de duh happened? It’s been 9 years since these Romanians released their debut album, one could have almost forgotten about them and I have had to relearn how to spell their name all over again. Joking and… Continue Reading →
Seems to have been a while since I had some Quebecois Metal Noire to review and I really do have a soft spot for it so enter Oriflamme with their debut full length. I looked up their name and apparently… Continue Reading →
Inferno have been around a good while. This Czech Black Metal ensemble have been casting their spells since 1996 and Paradeigma is their eighth full length release. This album has as its muses a triumvirate of weighty tomes – “The Red Book” by Jung , “Time Reborn” by… Continue Reading →
There’s something in the air around Utrecht in the Netherlands. It has spawned Laster, Verval, Nusquama and now Grey Aura. Active since 2010, “Zwart Vierkant” (Black Square) is the atmospheric black metal band’s second album following the snappily titled 2014… Continue Reading →
There are several reasons I was drawn to cover this 3rd album from Hanternoz despite having never heard of the French act before. Firstly, the subject matter dealing with folklore and the fact it is a narrative journey along “the… Continue Reading →
Black Metal has always been a poorer brother to Death Metal for me. It’s a genre often billed as ‘the most shocking genre in Metal’ and stuff and I just don’t see it. Controversial maybe in terms of its murderous,… Continue Reading →
On one listen I bought this seventh album by French act Seth, as it had that much impact on me. Of the handful of bands with the Seth moniker this French version is probably the most well-known. However it has… Continue Reading →
This is a Swedish set up with cited influences including Craft, Khold and Watain. This is dense, hypnotic black metal with rich sound textures exhuming multi-layered guitars, although the PR material suggests “icy rock n roll”, a term I must… Continue Reading →
Seems to be no shortage of stuff being released from Switzerland right now, must be something in the snow and whilst I await the new Borgne to arrive Ungfell have proven a great distraction. They are part of the shadowy… Continue Reading →