Tag black metal
Being a klutz who only skim reads most PR blurbs I was completely unaware until after listening to this album half a dozen times or more that it is one of the projects of maverick musician Maurice De Jong of… Continue Reading →
Despite pushing out a couple of demos in the late noughties, it wasn’t until 2017 that Prometheus birthed a full album. Rather than steal fire from the gods, this particular Prometheus borrow contemporary dense atmospherics from Cruciamentum et al, melding… Continue Reading →
Just to settle any confusion in the first instance this album is actually entitled ὸ θεὀς ὸ βασιλεὐς but putting that in the subject line could cause a website meltdown, so like others we are going with the translation. Anyway,… Continue Reading →
You could probably be forgiven for not remembering UKBM outfit Reign Of Erebus, after all it has been 16 long years since they released their second album ‘Inversion Principle’ way back in 2004. The group built up by founding member… Continue Reading →
This sounds to be an interesting proposition. Brazilian symphonic black metal band have been going since 2003 and are now releasing their third full album to go with a couple of early demos and a 2019 EP. From the onset… Continue Reading →
Une Balle dans le Pied literally means “a bullet in the foot”, so the equivalent of our “shooting yourself in the foot”. There’s no suggestion that Throane has done this with this EP, which promises black metal, doom, noise and… Continue Reading →
Ok let’s start with the kvlt shall we? It seems some people just think everything must be a joke and the notion that people might be intensely serious about their music, and even the philosophy behind its creation, is beyond… Continue Reading →
This French duo have garnered much acclaim for their earlier efforts, this being their third album. “Cosmogonie” is a lengthy opus of progressive blackened death metal that runs over the manufacturing restrictions of a single CD; physical releases will be… Continue Reading →
Comprising of a duo under the monikers of P. and MK this German black metal act has released a couple of EPs and splits that have paved the way for this debut full length that has some of the most… Continue Reading →
Back when I was a nipper in the 90s…. Ok, just in my 30s…. I was exploring the odd world of what I like to think of as “post -Norwegian black metal weirdshit”. Elend, Monumentum, Mortiis era 1, Ahkenaton’s Divine… Continue Reading →
The calibre of personnel within the ranks of Sweden’s Trident amount to something of an underground super group to some extent boasting members or ex-members of acts such as Dissection, Lord Belial and Altar Of Sacrifice to name a few… Continue Reading →
This is a 25th anniversary compilation album from this German black metal group who appear to now be the ‘soul’ domain of Lord Esgaroth. According to the big rant in the CD booklet though the cards are on the table… Continue Reading →