Tag Post Black Metal
Two tracks of over 20 minutes each in a post black metal style sounds like a weighty affair. This is the French band’s second album release. In the beginning it is atmospheric. After narrative by a sound-effected voice, we enter… Continue Reading →
‘Sel De Pierre’ may only be constructed of six tracks, but they clock in at an impressive thirty-eight minutes, mainly thanks to the epic marathon esque make up of two of its standout tracks ‘Onde’ and ‘In Humus’. Vous Autres… Continue Reading →
Is there anything better than unwinding at the end of the working week with a beer in your hand whilst listening to underground Black and Death Metal? It truly is a great sensation and something the masses probably would never… Continue Reading →
An Autumn For Crippled Children are a true Marmite band. Despised by many as the epitome of the hipster assault on the TRVE and KVLT unholiness of Black Metal they are often the anonymous whipping boys on many a social… Continue Reading →
There’s always been a desire to take metal onwards and upwards to its greatest extremes and only a damn-fool metalhead would begrudge that. I mean, that’s what brought us here in the first place right? Take Aara’s blend of high-pitched,… Continue Reading →
Karg is an excellent name for a band, especially for a black metal band from Austria. The word “karg” is German and it is old, something that you can simultaneously hear and see. Karg, when referred to a landscape, means… Continue Reading →
This is the debut album by Sons of a Wanted Man from Belgium, who have been around as a band for around 5 or 6 years. Reading their résumé, and finding out who their preferred artists are – always helpful,… Continue Reading →
On the one hand, this is an unlikely pairing, but on the other it makes perfect sense and I know this is a bold statement but I don’t recall a split release ever being this coherent or synergistic. ‘Time Without… Continue Reading →
From the admirable Les Acteurs de l’Ombre label come the band Mur. This is the band’s second album. It is described as “an album with a hardcore organic atmosphere tinted with rough and dynamic post-black metal”. The opener and evocatively… Continue Reading →
“White Ward perform intensely deviant music of a noir shade”, I read. From Odessa in Ukraine, they have been doing their post black metal thing since 2012, have released a couple of EP’s and are now releasing their second album…. Continue Reading →
First of all, for clarification this is Sertraline from the cold climes of Buffalo, USA, not the north of England one. Second, my enquiries took me to an anti-depressant of the same name. This Sertraline, whose second EP this is… Continue Reading →
All too often we approach new music with preconceived ideas either from previous encounters with a band, media hype or a press release. However, on this occasion I listened to Chrome Waves with absolutely no knowledge of the band and… Continue Reading →