It doesn’t take much to realize that the online black metal scene has truly come to a unique point such that it’s a near-infinite expanse that houses just as many quality works that blow the mind as many uninteresting copycats. … Continue reading Iskandr – Vergezicht
We could sit here for hours and have a near-endless debate on the current state of heavy metal with all that it brings to the table and how rooted the style has been in its original sound for decades with … Continue reading Portrait – At One With None
The influence of Lovecraft cannot be understated. Bar select performances out of the dark realms of ambient and noise, metal is perhaps on the best styles that can really encapsulate the madness and overwhelming density of Lovecraftian lore with all … Continue reading Bizarre – Invocation Codex
If you ask me, it’s not nearly often enough that we get the world of post-rock or post-metal cross over with doom in a form that’s actually properly done and not just some fuzzed-out form of heaviness with a couple … Continue reading Qoya – Yokai
A debut is always hard to deliver on any sort of capacity with the slate being seductively clean which allows you to do whatever you want, but it can easily be the determining point for listeners if they feel they … Continue reading Pillars of Cacophony – Parerga
As one of the most expansive and densely populated sections of black metal in our modern digital age, it can often feel intimidating to dive into the deeply layered world that is atmospheric black metal. But, like all styles, there … Continue reading Unreqvited – Beautiful Ghosts
It’s not unoften by any stretch to say that humor really has found a proper home in the over-reaching world of stoner metal along with its typical partner in crime that is doom, but it’s far harder to execute properly … Continue reading Shi – Basement Wizard
Black metal has always had a certain essence of iciness to it all when we consider the style in some of its rawest forms, but it’s not terribly often that we see a band expand on that to really take … Continue reading Vixenta – Polarity
If you ask me, metal coming out of the Middle East has some of the most interesting bands that we can listen to in today’s vast underground from names like Al-Namrood, Azooma, and Akvan just being three names that come … Continue reading Prey For Nothing – Kivshan
Despite the absolutely staggering ocean of doom acts out there that have come and gone in recent years, there still somehow manages to be new acts constantly coming out of the woodwork for all around the world that not only … Continue reading Green Lung – Black Harvest
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