Tag Satyricon
It’s album number 17 or thereabouts for Fenriz and Nocturno Culto. Actually they have travelled so far from the black metal days, which was something they were not even about back in 1991 with Soulside Journey that even calling them… Continue Reading →
“GROOVE” is the word, when it comes to ‘Reclaim The Darkness’, the debut album from Australian band KING. Dynamic blackened metal, with melody and plenty of (…I’m gonna say it again…) GROOVE! KING were formed in 2013 by David Hill… Continue Reading →
Translating the album title as “Shadowpack” this is the third full length from this inventive Swedish avant-garde black metal act whose album cover conjures up notions of mysticism and chilly autumnal mornings where mist and dew blanket the air. Being… Continue Reading →
With so many sub-genres within black metal it is fantastic to hear a band who ignore all trends and send us back 20 years or so with their true black metal annihilation which is what this Norwegian band does with… Continue Reading →
It’s been a couple of years since Aruagint was released and “Jaunt of the Obsessed” and “Strange Pungent Odyssey” are still getting an airing through my speakers. As such I was pleasantly surprised when Bogefod landed in my inbox. As… Continue Reading →
If you didn’t know Saligia is a mnemonic for the seven deadly sins in Latin which are superbia, avaritia, luxuria, invidia, gula, ira and acedia as the Norwegian duo of Ahzari (vocals, guitar and bass) and V (drums) deliver five… Continue Reading →
Stellar Master Elite – III Eternalism – The Psychospherical Chapter (Essential Purification Records)
The track “Stellar Master Elite” by Thorns was one that had a great impact on me when I first heard it on Moonfog 2000. Here was a track that combined spiky frozen riffs with an industrialized tempo and those vocals!… Continue Reading →
I had been looking forward to listening to this properly as I had managed to turn up at a listening session for the album a couple of months ago just in time to hear the last song, doh! The 3rd… Continue Reading →
Not to be confused with the recent doom dabbling’s of Lucifer, this child is a far more fearsome beast and comes to us courtesy of a couple of greats from within the Hellenic black metal scene namely George Emmanuel (Rotting… Continue Reading →
This struck as being strange and an unexpected form of darkness than the straightforward black metal I had anticipated and it pretty much cast its spell over me on the very first listen. Nebiros are a Polish band with the… Continue Reading →
Are Satyricon the Metallica of black metal? An important and revered set of early works…the odd curve-ball…and an opinion-dividing run of commercial triumphs…But what do you do when you have successfully pushed a genre’s themes to about as far as… Continue Reading →
“Haunted”, Demonic Slaughter’s fifth album release, captures the aura of old school black metal. It’s about the decay of mankind. It’s cold and frosty. Essentially, that’s the sum of it. Demonic Slaughter are Polish but that’s incidental as the style… Continue Reading →