On their tenth full-length studio album Austrian black metal legends Abigor have created an initially blurry storm of […]
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One of my all time favorite black metal albums is Taake‘s 2005 dark and jangly masterpiece ‘…Doedskvad’ with […]
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 […]
This Danish band have found an impressive middle-ground between the expressive atmospheric riffing of modern shape-shifting black metal […]
I guess the first question I have about the latest Midnight album concerns the crows on the cover […]
Black metal music, depending on your tastes, has either been over-saturated and trend happy for the last two […]
There are few metal sub-genres that I am not a fanatic of but melodic black metal is perhaps […]
You might take a quick look of this Slovakian band’s name and album art and easily pass it […]
The thinking behind releasing two full-lengths within one month of each other is questionable. One of them will […]
It was a year of strife for most Americans and chaos for most of the world as fascism […]
Finland’s innovative contributions to second wave black metal are often underappreciated when compared to their Scandinavian neighbors and […]
Taake’s ‘…Doedskvad’ was a revelation in 2005 as it combined the majesty and precision of Emperor‘s later era […]
‘Ornuthi Thalassa’ the debut album from Serpent Column is a masterwork of modern black metal inspired music. It remains […]
In their twentieth year of existence it would be easy to mistake Domgård for yet another re-envisioned take on […]
The initial appeal of Aosoth’s early works were admittedly their stripped down approach to Deathspell Omega‘s style of […]
After a strange, ham-fisted and very unbalanced debut EP Heir are back with an inexplicably polished and well-dressed […]
Though this mysterious avant-black Canadian trio is often described as discordant and strangely dissonant, the more I listen […]
Kawir is one of the more notable long running projects from the early days of Greece’s infamous black […]
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