Finland’s innovative contributions to second wave black metal are often underappreciated when compared to their Scandinavian neighbors and […]
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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 […]
As interesting and frightfully alien as Icelandic black metal has been so far, I don’t think many bands […]
Here I present Part II of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
The muttering stagnation of Enslaved’s increasingly progressive sound is an argument for the ‘metal mind’ versus the ‘progressive […]
I have what I like to call ‘vampire dog‘ teeth. Sharp incisors that ride a little higher on […]
My understanding of the aged and earthen career of Shamaatae doesn’t often progress beyond admiration towards transfixion because […]
When boiling down an album like ‘Upon My Cremation Pyre’ into it’s broadest strokes and deepest minutiae it […]
Here I present Part I of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
Finnish atmospheric death metal band Desolate Shrine have evolved in strides since the claustrophobic bluntness of their debut […]
Death Yell has very little peripheral exposure as an obscure Chilean black/death metal band with a minor classic […]
“Aeons pass before his eyes As generations turn to mist A seer rooted to the clay Prophesied to […]
“Wehe dieser grossen Stadt! – Und ich wollte, ich sähe schon die Feuersäule, in der sie verbrannt wird!” […]
“A second declension amidst imitable disassociation.” Tonic immobility is a behavior in which some animals become apparently […]
