The glistening, desperate wetness of tired shock tactics permit long-running projects like Ad Hominem to exist off of […]
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This Edmonton based black metal project had been dormant before I’d discovered the work of Paulus Kressman as […]
One of the earliest and certainly most atmospherically compelling projects to erupt from the Portland, Oregon based Vrasubatlat […]
With each successive release it seems Portuguese progressive black metal band Scarificare‘s roster shifts or shrinks, yet the […]
When considering my favorite metal releases of all time I have immediate and strong opinions about my picks […]
Turku based Finnish black metal band Mormânt De Snagov have always been high-functioning melodic black metal starting with their […]
In the throes of oppressively bleak nihilistic conjurations of imaginative guitar work, within occultist black metal orthodoxy, Chaos […]
The sheer magnitude of inspirationally prolific dark extreme metal musicians erupting out of the northwest United States is […]
Ukrainian pagan black metal duo Ulvegr have rammed their way into 2018 with an almost immediate new album […]
An Exhaustive Study: Melodic Black Metal [1991-Present] Part V – Ancient Thrones Conquered (’00-’01)
Here I present Part V of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
The more I study melodic black metal the more I see it as a fleeting language within modern […]
This Kansas based duo provide an almost academically applied cement to fill the gap betwixt the listless post-rock […]
The blunt nihilism of Sex Dumpster’s mastermind Hiram Lohr is a refreshing gust of air within their vodka-burping […]
The Netherlands had moon-cursing, ice cold black metal in the form of Funeral Winds years before Norway had […]
One of my all time favorite black metal albums is Taake‘s 2005 dark and jangly masterpiece ‘…Doedskvad’ with […]
Finland’s innovative contributions to second wave black metal are often underappreciated when compared to their Scandinavian neighbors and […]
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