In positing their enduring interest in regional folkloric history and its darker deviations Gävleborg/Stockholm, Sweden-based black/folk metal quartet […]
folk black metal
Born from stone and channeled hand-to-hand by divine bloodlet the spiritus of Mitra lives on within admirably inquisitive, […]
Intended as a transcendental ritual of the night, a descent into the dusk commissioned for a prominent festival […]
Against the wing of a marauding wyvern a jagged stone flung from wooden catapult shatters across iron-tough patagium, […]
Yanked through the process of rotting liquification and fed back into the furnace by the cold hand of […]
Their theatric agonies given narrative by way of downturned words in contemplative pathos, the soaring chants, chorale and […]
Guiding blind followers toward the overlooked roots of the ancients lying rotten and misused around us in everyday […]
Our gaze turns to the realm of Harghita mountain-lurkers up in their hallowed eastern reaches, a duo of […]
Named for death and entrenched in a fantastical, romanticized vision of the history of mining in their native […]
Echoed in both faintly lit shapes and broad-outlined traditions the sensorial experience of late second wave black metal […]
Pulled from the zone girdling the Earth and transmuted into spiritual energies, the three ichor bled from sacrifice […]
For a certain generation of black metal fandom the style which Karmøy, Norway-borne quartet Heimland leads with will […]
The starry shroud of time lifts away from the fantastical mysteries of a well-hidden anciency, a spectre of […]
Remain indifferent the self-inflicted suffering of mankind, an existence no less a building and receding detritus than the […]
“Waaraan uw hooge zee van starren beidt, / Leid gij mij uit den afgrond van dit heden, / […]
Flying all heathen banners high for the sake of symbolizing enduring defiance on this third full-length album, the […]
“Vers le milieu de la messe, le montagnard remarqua le diable en personne qui, tantôt sur une épaule […]
There are myriad conversations to be had in reference to Mexican-American musician Kurator of War‘s Pan-Amerikan Native Front […]
A pure obsidian fang, hollowed and tall enough to spark lightning from the cloud-scraping pronged peak of its […]
Just as the walls of fortification seem a bit steep in the eye of a peasant they’d read […]
