Tag black metal
The Harvest Moon is one of those single person black metal projects, where the subject is the anxiety of living in a complex civilisation. The individual behind this EP upped sticks in 2018 to experience off grid living in Western… Continue Reading →
I blame Horror for me not being as into Black Metal. As a child I gravitated towards B-movies and nasty Horror flicks (probably a bit worrying on reflection). Because of this it would appear that my natural path would lead… Continue Reading →
Colds winds rage across seas. That’s what they tell us. The sea seems to be at the heart of this debut album from Brazilian progressive black metal band Thermohaline. Creaking timbers on the waves set the scene, but turn into… Continue Reading →
Two climates, one hot and one icy combine together to make hideous chasmic noise here. On the one hand we have main composer W.uR also in Ab Imo Pectore, Angrenost, Israthoum from Portugal who handles most of what we hear… Continue Reading →
Yet more fascination in Aokigahara the Japanese ‘Suicide Forest’ here and seriously it is becoming a bit of a cliché now. Perhaps Covid has left it as place where the dead can finally go to die in peace but before… Continue Reading →
Although they only formed in 2018, Swiss atmospheric black metal group AARA are already onto their third album, ‘Triade I : Eos’. This is the first part of a forthcoming trilogy inspired by the Gothic 19th century novel ‘Melmoth the… Continue Reading →
I must admit to previously knowing little about this legendary Serbian black metal band, who’ve consistently churned out quality black metal albums since 2001 (or earlier, if you want to count their early incarnation as Stone To Flesh). Ninth album… Continue Reading →
So, we are all are more than well aware by now of the infamous split of the original Batushka, and the complicated and complex arguments that have ensued since, but leaving all that aside and concentrating solely on this new… Continue Reading →
It is clear that this Dutch duo, D. Scherman and R. Schmidt, want to inflict a harrowing listen on anyone who cares to partake on either of the albums they have released as this second chapter, as I’ve deemed it,… Continue Reading →
This is the fourth album release from Perennial Isolation, the atmospheric black metal band from Barcelona. On top of their album releases, this is a seasoned live band. After a sultry opener, the fire starts with “Autumn Legacy Underlying the… Continue Reading →
Black metal is about far more than just music. It is about emotion and attitude. It should be provocative, aggressive and confrontational and there should be an intensity, whether that be a brooding claustrophobia or vitriolic aural assault. Of course,… Continue Reading →
This is the bit in the review where your scribe tells you what they know about the band: They are Australian. They play melodic/atmospheric black metal. Well there we are. Three tracks. A little over twenty-three minutes. Nice art. ‘Azure;… Continue Reading →