One of my all time favorite black metal albums is Taake‘s 2005 dark and jangly masterpiece ‘…Doedskvad’ with […]
2017
Riffocity’s debut EP ‘Disciples of the Storm’ was a green set of tracks showcasing a band still finding […]
Rounding out a short list of black metal related albums I overlooked or under-hyped this year is Chilean […]
Nortt is an undeniable innovator and idealist extremist. His passionate yearning for death, his blood-curdling vocal gargles, and […]
The decade plus long journey to ‘Divine Cessation’ is almost more interesting than the album itself. Looking back […]
German King Diamond worshipers Attic had been leading up to their magnum epic concept album for years and […]
The influence of modern thrash bands like Revocation and Vektor cannot be understated and as those bands have […]
With twenty four zippity thrashcore songs in twenty five minutes ‘Forbidden Techniques’ was too much for this relatively […]
My knowledge of Hungarian metal is extremely limited and that is especially true when it comes to thrash […]
This Danish band have found an impressive middle-ground between the expressive atmospheric riffing of modern shape-shifting black metal […]
Careful now, box up your funny shaped head and your dumbo ears. ‘The Ripper’ isn’t aiming for your […]
Where better than Bangladesh to form a thrash metal band? A country where about four percent of the […]
Black metal music, depending on your tastes, has either been over-saturated and trend happy for the last two […]
If you’re like me and you’re constantly following the every singly halfway decent Swedish death metal release, wildly […]
There are few metal sub-genres that I am not a fanatic of but melodic black metal is perhaps […]
Hey remember Inquisitor from twenty years ago? No, in fact before their Bestial Mockery split in 2007 I’d […]
You might take a quick look of this Slovakian band’s name and album art and easily pass it […]
Despite the plentiful buzz surrounding Necrot’s debut full-length I hadn’t tracked down ‘Blood Offerings’ until now. I was […]
Much of the time I spent with the third iteration of Machine Games’ revival of the Wolfenstein series […]
The thinking behind releasing two full-lengths within one month of each other is questionable. One of them will […]
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