For the longest time, practically since its inception, black metal has long gone hand-in-hand with vibes of unfettered, unyielding evil that is all-consuming to a terrifying degree. Naturally, we’ve seen all sorts of bands bring it about on differing … Continue reading Cultum Interitum – Sacrum Funeral
The ancient texts of mostly forgotten lore have played important roles in the crafting of the world as we know it today with some aspects more commercially known while others continue to spend millennia mostly in the shadows of obscurity. … Continue reading Broken Pillars – Of Pillars and Primordial Myth
Every year, we’re given quite an array of albums that seek to take some sort of claim to renown in the vast underground with hundreds upon thousands of pieces competing and showing us all what they’re made of even if … Continue reading Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Of all the different avenues that are to be travelled down in the sprawling landscape that black metal has carved out for itself over the decades, there’s always something to be said for those bands that go off and do … Continue reading Absque Cor – Na zawze cieniem…
Hundreds of thousands of times have we see new acts spring from the woodwork of the metal undergrowth to make their claim for glory be it to climb their way to the very top or to simply craft their own … Continue reading Banished Realm – Impious Rumination
Normally, in the many different realms of black metal we see a certain modicum of focus alongside a serious approach that isn’t fussing around for so much as a moment. Much like what we’re seeing in certain corners of death … Continue reading Kvelgeyst – Blut, Milch und Thränen
In no small way, the underground is constantly pulsating with new talent the likes of which are always clamoring to put forth earth-shattering intensity of their own kind. Death metal, in particular, is always finding itself in a scenario where … Continue reading Saevus Finis – Facilis Descensus Averno
It’s always a great thing to watch a band progress their sound over time with many shifting genres and styles altogether over the course of albums and years to make for something that can’t be deemed anything less than a … Continue reading Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden
By all means, black metal is home to the most blasphemous sites in all of the metal spectrum. After decades of carefully curating to bring that reality into being, it doesn’t take much to see that the status quo is … Continue reading Black Eucharist – Inn of the Vaticide
For the almost ten years that I have been doing these reviews, I have had the immense pleasure of finding many different names across many of the different avenues that populate the vast underground scenes of metal and rock music … Continue reading The Re-Stoned – Spectrum
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