Although the earliest rumblings of what would become Aphelion in 2018 began as a black metal side project […]
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Two plagues are presented as black and shining mirrors upon the eye-clawing masses made hysterical by the burning […]
The freely spilling mess of a psyche melting at erratic intervals as it loosens from the ice of […]
There may be no better test for the inherent power of a black metal artist’s statement than to […]
Despite having shared a bassist between 1988 and 1993 as well as a drummer prior to the release […]
Dripping from the tips of a thousand fingers that’d hang dead from this great looming pyre of meat […]
The same disclaimer precedes a valuation of any split release, that I will inevitably favor one artist because […]
From the swirling fire and chaos of sulphur spewing clouds the caress of gravity’s friction-pressed descent lands the […]
A curious warmth spreads over Kotka, Finland based black metal act Nattfog as they’d reduce from a duo […]
It’d be impossible to imagine the horrors of the scorned dead still spiraling in the minds of a […]
To be so perfectly crystalline in arrangement and encased in ones own rigid perfection is the only state […]
Though it can be difficult to see a past behind the padded, spiked and smeared Wagner name-dropping shoulders of […]
The heavy eyelids of the densely populated European black metal massif barely appear to have batted at the […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
A pale giantess, the goddess of gold, who would hone and protect the fire sword of Surtr under […]
Rapping against my skull as it kicks its furious and fleet-footed sledge upon the drum of my mind […]
For those of us who would spend our lives digging through every record store encountered, and likewise scouring […]
Cold is the winter serpents howl with ancient Swedish forms of blackened ritual weighing across my cracking frailties […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
Bringer of higher education, a strategic genius for the ages, progenitor of civil code, an emancipator of the […]
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