Descending from the gleam of the night’s sky in vested galloping thunder-steed and beyond a vortex of spiraling […]
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Your whole existence is contained, leashed to the point that the loftiest ambition you might manage under corporate […]
From pernicious forest spirits to ritual senicide, thralldom and beyond Gävle, Sweden-based epic vikingr metal quartet EREB ALTOR […]
Guiding blind followers toward the overlooked roots of the ancients lying rotten and misused around us in everyday […]
Named for death and entrenched in a fantastical, romanticized vision of the history of mining in their native […]
Power will have another day. — Simply titling their tenth full-length album ‘How It Ends‘ sent many a […]
For a certain generation of black metal fandom the style which Karmøy, Norway-borne quartet Heimland leads with will […]
In the valley of rest, to the pulse of the clover sprouting underfoot, they reel in celebration as […]
Remain indifferent the self-inflicted suffering of mankind, an existence no less a building and receding detritus than the […]
In their wake they draw the ocean flowing ’round the Earth — set upon a voyage away from […]
Beyond the final warring gasp of man’s ruin within cruelest fimbulvetr so follows the terrible fate of the […]
Romanticism aimed upon pre-Christian Germanic civilization, and associated naturalist belief systems, endures as the main modus for Alaskan […]
The golden cradle of the sacred child reflects the resplendent light of sanctuary, Ideon Andron, its dripping crystalline […]
At the very brink of the forest the woodland edge serves as a point of advantage for both […]
The same disclaimer precedes a valuation of any split release, that I will inevitably favor one artist because […]
A curious warmth spreads over Kotka, Finland based black metal act Nattfog as they’d reduce from a duo […]
A certain oddly passionate type of Norwegian teenager in the late 80’s and early 90’s would spawn in […]
Though today they are considered one of the earliest and most celebrated black metal bands to have come […]
Here I present a random blast of 20 albums from the annuls of 2018. Consider it a penance […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
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