Tag Porta Nigra
This is the fifth album by Germany’s Chaos Invocation who I was introduced to on their second album ‘Black Mirror Hours’ and reviewed for the site back in 2013. I have kept up with the band since as each subsequent… Continue Reading →
This Swiss / Norwegian outfit may well be new with only this album proceeded by a couple of singles but their line-up certainly had me intrigued and wanting to hear more. Set up by guitarist B. (yes one of those… Continue Reading →
It must have seemed like ‘the end of the world’ and indeed for many it was “as the generals left the game and only the wounded remained” (to quote another band). The folly and lunacy of the first world war… Continue Reading →
It’s only been just over a year since this black horde dropped second album Divinity’s Fall so it’s still nice and rotting in the memory. That doesn’t stop a highly enjoyable refresher course of it for purposes of compare and… Continue Reading →
From the depths of Germany’s Black Forest region, Thron have released their fourth full length album, “Dust”. Formed in 2015, the band continue to expand on their black metal sound drawing in more classic influences whilst retaining an edge that… Continue Reading →
So Malphas is the name of a demon, I guessed it had some sort of relevance as there are a fair few bands sporting said moniker. None of them are from Sweden but one of them is Swiss and if… Continue Reading →
Poetic in more ways than one. Lyrically here we take to the work of Paul Verlaine, decadent artisan and lover of Arthur Rimbaud. This is the muse followed into the Fin de Siecle period of 19th Century Paris by Belgian… Continue Reading →
Back in 2012 a dark delicious deutsche slab of musical decadence appeared in the form of debut album Fin de siècle from this German band. It also contained one of the catchiest songs of the year in the form of… Continue Reading →
This bands debut, “In Bloodline With The Snake”, from 2009 was a worthy if predictable addition to the German black metal scene with harsh frostbitten rawness creating the purist view of black metal. Some four years later and we are… Continue Reading →