Tag USBM
I’m more partial to a bit of atmospheric folk black metal than the average metal man in the street – but you have to quickly develop a quality filter. I mean, there’s a lot of it about and there are… Continue Reading →
I want to go and throw a stick in Portland Oregon and see how many musicians I can knock out. Prolific is the word and those playing black metal are no exception. I could write a big list starting at… Continue Reading →
I must confess from the start, I took on this band Black Anvil for review having never previously heard them, I was intrigued by them, based mainly on an old theory I had drummed into me by one of my… Continue Reading →
A couple of 7” records from the ever interesting Boris Records winged their way to us recently. The first of these delivers some good old goat worship just the way we like it courtesy of USBM outfit Hellgoat. The band… Continue Reading →
Pact’s debut full length The Dragon Lineage Of Satan, with its somewhat crude but oddly effective and altogether appropriate cover art, was a surprise bundle of nasty, very accomplished black metal with hard and fast values to match the bestial… Continue Reading →
US black metal often struggles to get the same kudos as its European counterparts. Sure, USBM is not without its charge-leading anti-heroes but take any top fifty black metal albums and you’d struggle to find more than a couple of… Continue Reading →
Nobody would really have expected that this USBM meeting of minds would have made it to a third album and be signed by Century Media when they released their debut self-titled album back in 2005. It was an album that… Continue Reading →
Yes it is time for more songs against praise from that diabolic duo Paul Ledney and John Gelso. Innovators within the USBM scene the group’s overtly blasphemous output is equally revered and reviled and if you have encountered it before… Continue Reading →
I don’t know what Vattnet Viskar is supposed to mean if anything but I do know where they’re from. This trio of musicians from the USA plunge us into dark atmospheres from the outset of this album, the follow-up to… Continue Reading →
“A zud or dzud (Mongolian: зуд) is a Mongolian term for an extremely snowy winter in which livestock are unable to find fodder through the snow cover, and large numbers of animals die due to starvation and the cold. The… Continue Reading →
I first found myself infected by Bitter Peace on a four band split called ‘New World Black Metal’ highlighting some of the nastiest scourges of the USBM scene. Their coruscating and hateful take on the style had a notable industrialised… Continue Reading →
With the amount of creativity Blake Judd has, he was never going to sit on his laurels for long. With his main project Nachtmystium seemingly on hold for an indeterminate amount of time, he has decided that 2012 was the… Continue Reading →