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Danish black metal band Denial of God have been crafting horror-inspired nightmares for 21 years. Their latest album, ‘Death and the Beyond’, is a cold mortuary slab of dark art; one which is sure to appeal to fans of traditional… Continue Reading →
Latvia is for me an unknown quantity musically apart from a melodic death metal band called Trendkill Method. This album comes from a far darker place. The short and concise track titles – “Black”, “Witch”, “Sinner” “Agony” etc – convey… Continue Reading →
Listening to v.e.g.a. yesterday got me thinking that black metal and industrial go together so fantastically well it’s a shame more bands don’t do it. Plutonium, a solo act fromSweden, is another fine example of this integration of styles and… Continue Reading →
Black Metal band Asaru has an irregular history. Having operated between 1995 and 2007 in Germany, the vocalist moved to Norway and re-formed the band in 2009. I didn’t hear the original incarnation but I imagine there’s not too much… Continue Reading →
The latest Peaceville re-release marks the completion of Gehenna’s Moonfog trilogy. Naturally these were all reissued in entirely the wrong order, so 2nd Moonfog album ‘Murder’ is the final one to get the Peaceville treatment. After splitting their fanbase by… Continue Reading →
Chicagoans Kommandant first fired across my bows with their Kontakt EP back in 2010 via Planet Metal Records. At the time I declared that the disc gave me a cataclysmic short sharp shock and left me wanting more and finally… Continue Reading →
Good timing for this reissue of the second album by Aura Noir as they are just about to unleash their brand new opus ‘Out To Die’ via Indie Recordings. The core trio of musicians should need no introduction at all… Continue Reading →
Taking their name from a skeletal, flaming daemon from the D&D universe, New Jersey’s Immolith specialise in a hybrid of the old Norwegian and Swedish styles of BM, the songs forever tumbling into the abyss as they are dragged along… Continue Reading →
Album (re-release with bonus commentary cd) When I first heard the music of Isengard, the solo project of Darkthrone’s Fenriz, it was like enlightenment. I guess it was about 10 years ago. I was into Black Metal and had heard… Continue Reading →