With the year getting ready to come to a close, many of us are in a scramble to figure out our year-end lists to determine what our favorites of the year are hopefully without forgetting to include releases be they … Continue reading Valdrin – Throne of the Lunar Soul
There really is no school like the old school. It’s what people always fall back on when they feel as though all else fails and they can’t see any other pathway forward even if that likely isn’t the case. Death … Continue reading Abyssal Tomb – Buried
What will never cease to amaze me when it comes to something like black metal is how malleable the sound is even after all this time. A simple decision is an unassuming category can make all the different for a … Continue reading Horyn – Voices of My Despairing Thoughts
For every year that we see throughout the vast expanse of the underground, there are always a few records that come around that are able to just defy virtually every expectation to deliver an experience that none of us could … Continue reading Deadly Carnage – Endless Blue
The unexpected and insane have built the underground into the unpredictable beast that we know it as today. Even just a little bit of experimentation or chaos, oftentimes one and the same, can propel a sound into an unprecedented direction … Continue reading Tetragrammacide – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur’an
A band’s evolution is always something fascinating to behold. At any given time, a band’s trajectory can shift for any possible reason be it the simple desire to try something sonically different or it happen by pure happenstance. One can … Continue reading Kings Winter – The Other Side of Fear
Raw, unfettered devastation is something that many acts throughout the vast underground of the global metal scene have sought to deliver for decades now. As is the case in many scenarios with a clear vision in mind, only true disciples … Continue reading Crust – Dissolution
Structure and consistency is something that we all crave for in one form or another with music absolutely being a big piece of our lives that almost always benefits from a rigid structure. In certain reaches of what music has … Continue reading Myælin – Naesekhnaetri
Of all the acts and magnificence that have come about since the turn of the century in the world of black metal, it can’t be said there’s a shortage of quality or intensity in any given sound with many modern … Continue reading Panopticon – The Rime of Memory
There’s nothing that can denied about the uncompromising and outright homicidal extreme metal that doesn’t even try to hide its dark nature, constantly inviting the listener deeper into its chasms where only traps await them along with their naive souls. … Continue reading Abyssal Rift – Extirpation Dirge