Whereas many look to the largely unexplored reaches of the underground to find new talent delivering fresh experiences, it can oftentimes be from the well-known founts of quality that we can keep returning to in the search of finding something … Continue reading Arrows – Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns
By all accounts, black metal has long overflowed talent seeking to make its own sound known through whatever means necessary. While there are plenty who begin to tap into their potential, very few are able to really capitalize on it … Continue reading Wode – Uncrossing the Keys
A lot can be accomplished over the course of ten years. Every band moves at its own pace, and there are certainly those that cannot be kept down for too long, for their creative energies are not so easily stemmed … Continue reading Outlaw – Opus Mortis
Given the amorphous nature that plenty styles in extreme metal can adopt, it’s no surprise that we’re still able to find plenty of bands and artists doing their own thing. Whether it’s in the pursuit of trying new sounds for … Continue reading Miasmata – Subterrania
Growth is not always a straightforward path. It has plenty of bends and turns, twisting down different avenues and sometimes even circling back on itself to rediscover a new way to move forward while ensuring that the past is given … Continue reading Carach Angren – The Cult of Kariba
They say that it is best to strike while the iron is hot, but what’s to be said for those that never let the iron become cold in the first place? The underground is absolutely littered with tons of names … Continue reading Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy
A decade is, by all accounts, a long time. So much can happen in that span of time that nothing is ever guaranteed especially when it comes to the concepts of change, action, and plans of any nature as things … Continue reading Deathwinds – …Towards Doom…
In recent times, black metal has seen quite the schism. Constantly being pulled from one side to the next by those seeking to perpetuate the old school unto infinity and those taking the genre to new horizons, there is a … Continue reading Dark Watcher – The Law of Bone and Sinew
It can be quite a tricky thing to navigate any particular sound when it becomes oversaturated with names that are simply not up to the task of tapping into the potential of whatever the given style is. All too easy … Continue reading Sunken – Lykke
In the current state of the underground, I think it’s safe to make the claim that the musicians are more involved than ever before given the sheer breadth of talent out there that find themselves spread across several different bands … Continue reading Unsouling – Outward Streams of Devotional Woe
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