Tag black metal
This is one of those annoying albums that has stuck to the reviews list like a limpet with nobody picking it up to cover until the actual release date. I would apologise for tardiness but anyone who remembers this German… Continue Reading →
What do New Order, The Cardiacs, Lacuna Coil, Depeche Mode & Blurr Thrower have in common? Well, they all have album covers with flowers as a central motif. I have been trying to work out what flowers adorn Les voûtes… Continue Reading →
A new album by Alexander von Meilenwald’s highly revered Ruins Of Beverast is a pretty major event in the extreme music world and the follow up to the sublime ‘Exuvia’ of 2017 is an album that needs time and a… Continue Reading →
So, with that name, that label, that title and a cover of a heavily armed goat demon seemingly using Jesus’ head as a codpiece, anyone want to hazard a guess at what we’re seemingly here? Yep neo-folk… Just kidding. This… Continue Reading →
Enchanting and mesmerising, captivating and thought provoking all in equal measures. This is black metal but done on a higher plateau. Nordicwinter have blasted out of the barren wilderness of the Canadian frozen landscapes and have delivered us a package… Continue Reading →
The old-world charm of Victoria, British Columbia, isn’t the sort of place I’d associate with “black metal surging with atmosphere and anguish, melancholy and rage” but this is what we have. With an eleven-minute track at each end of this… Continue Reading →
Looking back at our previous reviews of Alkerdeel we 1st covered them on second album Morinde where they made “a point of noting” that it came out “in the apocalyptical year of 2012.” Well, a quick fast forward to 2021… Continue Reading →
Pretty certain this is the first album from Ecuador I’ve reviewed, and raw black metal is the calling these three guys have. And yes I do mean calling; you don’t play this kind of music for fame, let alone fortune…. Continue Reading →
This is the debut EP by Phalanx Inferno. The nihilistic lyrics and the fact there’s a Celtic Frost cover here give a clue as to where this US band comes from for inspiration. The Celtic Frost cover is “Jewel Crown”… Continue Reading →
Is it me or is there a lot of music coming out of Belgium and Canada at the moment? It seems like every other release that drops through my letter box or inbox is from one of these two pleasant countries. (not… Continue Reading →
Misotheist’s self-titled debut, released in 2018, made it on my best-album-of-the-year list, and after two years I’m still happy that I included it – which isn’t true for every LP on that list. I still listen to the album every… Continue Reading →
Just the usual “ominous and sepulchral hymns to death, destruction, chaos and misanthropy” to savour here. This is in fact the first album from Polish black metal band Cultum Interitum following on from a demo, EP and a single since… Continue Reading →