Tag Folter Records
Dark underground black metal is the offering from Dutch band Kaeck, whose second album this is, six years on from their debut “Stormkult”. The occult, black magic and rituals interest them. The style is old school. The riffage is deep… Continue Reading →
Perhaps it is due to the fact that so much metal within this sub-genre is tarred with the “post” brush right now, almost as if those that play it have forgotten the origins and meanings. It’s unavoidable in a way… Continue Reading →
Norwegian act Liktjern, whose name I think translates as Mortuary or to that effect, have not had it easy. Despite being in existence since the mid-90s the band only released one EP, ‘Kulde, Pest & Død’, and that came in… Continue Reading →
Ah another new name despite having a previous album and an EP out. Pretty much an international band on the album line-up but, I think Germany based with its core members. Black metal. Kind of. It opens with the sounds… Continue Reading →
Another day, another new band to me despite being around for a decade. They play, apparently, punked up black n roll, hail from Bern and sing in Barndutsch which is a Swiss/German dialect. This is also a rerecording of their… Continue Reading →
Cuba doesn’t automatically conjure up images of blasphemous and malevolent black metal but there is a band which has been plying its trade, cultivating and polishing its black arts deep within the black metal purgatory and this Chthonic duo go… Continue Reading →
Wolves Of Perdition hold the tag line of ferocious black metal and the latest offering from these Finns is nothing short of brutal and barbaric. I guess the clue to the package you are about to present your soul at… Continue Reading →
Black metal has certainly made a huge impact on me during 2020, which maybe an indication of my overall mood at how it has gone. Pandemic or not the genre has produced some truly staggering albums a handful of which… Continue Reading →
As long-time readers will know, Ave Noctum likes not just to provide state-of-the-art reviews of all things short, nasty and brutish (and that is just the reviewers), but also to ensure that our mission of education is met. Therefore, for… Continue Reading →
I admit I got this to review because my first choice was taken and I’d never heard of this mysterious international collective. Still, anything to help out and prevent handbag fights between the Ave Noctum scribes. Wasn’t too keen on… Continue Reading →
Speaking in “the Devil’s tongue,” here we have a trio with members split between Germany and Brazil some of whom also play in Sodomizer and Hellkommander along with a drummer who has done time in both Destruction and Morgoth. Can… Continue Reading →
Following up last year’s debut album …Of Serpentine Forces, German occultists Illum Adora reconvene under the sign of the Baphomet once more with this 5 track EP release. This is second wave era black metal with a solid stench of… Continue Reading →