Tag Debemur Morti
Since forever the universe has been trying to teach us about the concept of interconnectedness, that what affects one person, one town, one region, one country, will sooner or later affect everybody else on the planet. Depending on your worldview,… Continue Reading →
As the anniversary of their third decade of existence draws closer, this French pioneering outfit show little signing of slowing down. Indeed, it’s astonishing to realise that it’s also been almost twenty years since the release of the influential and… Continue Reading →
Aara are a black metal band from Switzerland founded in 2018 who, it seems, made good use of the lockdowns and the plague years. Vocalist and lyricist Fluss (Engl.: river) and multi-instrumentalist Berg (Engl.: mountain) are now releasing their fourth… Continue Reading →
Opening track, ‘Ascension Towards The Promethean Fire’, begins with the bells tolling and then launches into raw demonic dirty black metal. It is calculated and measured and is as polished as it is maniacal and vile. The vocals from Lord… Continue Reading →
With this album, Californians Cailleach Calling (along with Ukrainian drummer Yurii Kononov) “fuse trancelike Emperial bludgeon with dreamlike melodic ambience, countering vocals of tether-end savagery with emotive, ethereal intimations of deep space”, we’re told. The ambiance is distinctly black metal…. Continue Reading →
This is a very interesting band. An atmospheric black metal band from Indonesia, there is a Ukrainian element in the form of the drummer who was with the admirable White Ward, and some guitar elements. This band has been around… Continue Reading →
Having previously plucked bass for French sludge outfit Overmars throughout the noughties, Marion Leclercq brings us the sophomore full-length from her solo project, a full five years after the well-received debut. Opener “The Descent” is driven mostly by oppressive doomy… Continue Reading →
Deranged and agonising murmurs flood the ‘Intro’ before the album takes off with ‘Heavens Ablaze’. A full-on assault of raw and technical black metal. The screams and roars from Lord Angelslayer are demonical and possessed and the speed which emanates… Continue Reading →
“Music for night hours and sanguine addictions” I’ll be honest those words send shivers down my spine for all the wrong reasons. I spent some time amongst the Vampire fans of London in the 90’s in the middle of the… Continue Reading →
Modern Rites are an international band as is increasingly the way these days, comprising Berg from Swiss atmospheric black metal band Aara and Jonny of US experimental metal band Kuyashii. Dark and desolate landscapes are offered and delivered. “Vigilance Eternal”… Continue Reading →
A new band from Sweden, a name you may have not heard of (yet) and a debut EP. You might be shrugging your shoulders and thinking “so what.” However, those behind this trio are far from new to the scene…. Continue Reading →
White Ward were one of the bands for whom the pandemic could not have come at a worse moment. Their absorbing last LP Love Exchange Failure, released in the autumn of 2019, fusing lounge jazz with black metal, had left… Continue Reading →