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’s in the fringes and adjacent realms of metal that sometimes to most interesting acts can be found even if they can remain quite amorphous, hard to pin down, or even just outright weird by all intents and purposes. There’s … Continue reading Manos Six and the Muddy Devil – When Skies are Grey
After hearing so much of what the underground has to offer, it cannot be overstated how much a little bit of a different approach can make for a truly wild difference. We’ve seen all sorts of innovation thrusted into existence … Continue reading Buzzard – Mean Bone
Usually, whenever I find myself coming across an album that completely blindsides me I won’t come across another such work for a decent amount of time, typically in the form of months. When I heard and reviewed the latest from … Continue reading Manos Six and the Muddy Devil – Swamp Suicide
The name that always leaps out to me when we take into consideration the massive wave of atmospheric black metal in the last number of years has always been Panopticon. At every turn, the name has become synonymous with many … Continue reading Panopticon – …And Again Into The Light
I fucking love Bandcamp, I really do. Simply because whenever I go in there are always a few select bands that are constantly topping the site’s charts be it years after an album’s release or the day of or weeks … Continue reading Panopticon – The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness
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