Tag Blut Aus Nord
Ayloss, the man behind Spectral Lore, resides in Athens, but his latest effort sounds far removed from the traditional traits of Greek black metal, drawing instead upon a dense and dynamic Eastern-European aesthetic merged with a heavy dose of Nordic… Continue Reading →
Deathspell Omega. Champions of the Emperor’s new clothes to some, grand innovators of occultist BM to others. 2007’s ‘Fas…’ always struck me as an almost impenetrably dense album, promising arcane wisdom but delivering only ecstatic dementia, sardonically laughing in the… Continue Reading →
For me, if there is a defining feature of the bands I’ve heard from the French black metal scene it has to be the intellect they often seem to build their music around. For better or worse depending on subject… Continue Reading →
Well done to Season Of Mist for picking up this home grown group whose career has always been intriguing to say the least. I first encountered these filthy French fucks around their debut album ‘Login:SataN’ 2003 which I described as… Continue Reading →
Whilst forever being labelled as industrial black metal, I’ve never quite got where the industrial label really came from where they were concerned, save for the title of their debut album ‘Industrial Mental Concept’. Like their countrymen Blut Aus Nord,… Continue Reading →
Aus Der Transzendenz are Austrian, but the bandmembers’ identities remain shrouded in mystery; we are told only that they are known individuals operating within the black metal underground. The accompanying promo text is all very over the top, espousing an… Continue Reading →
It figures that on their website Alkerdeel have posted an album preview to a visual scene from Belgian horror film Calvaire (reviewed elsewhere on this site). This Belgian lot have made a point of noting that this release is in… Continue Reading →