Tag black metal
Nordgeist. Frostwinter. If you guessed that this is a groove metal album filled with slap bass and wacky ditties about otters then you best keep walking – as long as you have snowshoes! Nordgiest is a one person Black Metal project from Siberia and the frostbitten… Continue Reading →
I’m sure you know that bit in Hellraiser where Cousin Frank is all hooked up via the face and there’s a pause before his flesh is pulled apart. Well, the words “Jesus Wept” are also a very valid statement here… Continue Reading →
Since their conception in Istanbul just prior to the turn of the Millennium, Moribund Oblivion have had six previous full length albums since the original EP released in 2002 and the last album, Turk, released in 2015, set the standard… Continue Reading →
In circulation since 2001 and with historic connections to Dutch black metal acts such as Cirith Gorgor and Walpurgisnacht, this album is said to appeal to fans of Ruins of Beverast and Summoning, as well as those of dungeon synth… Continue Reading →
There is something reassuring about Icelandic Black Metal and its oppressive dark embrace. Generally ignoring black metal histrionics, Icelandic black metal opts for a more claustrophobic, crushing style building dense layers of dissonance to great effect. Forsmán are the latest… Continue Reading →
I have been lucky enough to review the last two Pando releases so it was with great pleasure that I opened the quite frankly beautifully packaged gatefold CD of Rites. Pando are artists in both the musical and physical sense. … Continue Reading →
One look at the Nordic tree line and shroud of violet light on the cover of this new, secretive black metal project and you’d be forgiven for expecting something slow, dark, ambient, pastoral…. What we get is something altogether more… Continue Reading →
A new force in the Norse BM scene but not one without pedigree considering it is made up of Cernunnus (Manii/Manes), Levninger (Knokkelklang) and V. Einride (Whoredom Rife). This three-track album was originally released on limited cassette with just 100… Continue Reading →
I’m not a cinema-goer but I do know who Max von Sydow was. This “pure satanic, death worshipping” album from the Polish black metal band Manbryne is in memory of him. One of the band members plays in Blaze of… Continue Reading →
Wode are a UK black metal band formed little over a decade ago who quietly honed their craft before releasing a well-received debut album in 2016. They quickly followed it with another album of remarkable quality in 2017, before going… Continue Reading →
Once more into the breech dear friends, well that place called Aokigahara the Japanese Suicide Forest at any rate. This is the 3rd time in as many weeks I have traipsed down its shadowy paths and I feel like a… Continue Reading →
This is not the first time that I have encountered Anhedonia “inability to feel pleasure in normally pleasurable activities” in the music we feature or indeed in life Itself. Another tried and tested subject matter Lifeless have at the heart… Continue Reading →