There are a few times when a certain act will release any sort of material be it a simple single or an ambitious double album and what feels like the whole fanbase of the style will shake with excitement in … Continue reading Panopticon – The Crescendo of Dusk
There are many themes and ideas that have gone into the incredibly vast realm of black metal over the years as everything from the concept of nature to the very echoes of the soul have been poured into the genre … Continue reading Downfall of Gaia – Ethic of Radical Finitude
With every year that goes by with doing these reviews, there are very few things that are almost if not very certain. It’s each new year that I’m sure to get a fuck ton of awesomeness from new and old … Continue reading Veldes – Flameless
The average metal fan on Bandcamp could tell you that saying there are a few atmospheric black metal acts out there would be a complete and total understatement, and trawling through them all to find something worth its own salt … Continue reading Insonus – The Will To Nothingness
Of all the many different branches on the massive tree that is metal music, it’s the massive log of a branch that’s black metal holds easily the most amount of diversity in sound in a genre that’s already ridiculously diverse. … Continue reading Afraid of Destiny – S.I.G.H.S.
It wasn’t even ten days ago that I heard the promising EP from Nebula Orionis that was released just earlier this year, and with a new album on the very near horizon, I was very hopeful as to what this act … Continue reading Nebula Orionis – Starthrone
Anyone who does even a little bit of digging into the greater black metal scene that’s at play will know that there’s a special dark corner of the style that’s unlike anything else that no other brew of black metal … Continue reading Ars Magna Umbrae – Lunar Ascension
The world of cosmic black metal is one that I’ve always been interested in but it’s also long been something that I’ve visited only on rare occasion. With acts like Midnight Odyessy, Mare Cognitum, and Mesarthim decorating the style while … Continue reading Nebula Orionis – Soulshard
Should you be even a little familiar with black metal, you know that the scene is one that has easily the most amount of variety and experimentation in all of metal. It’s something that constantly has us crawling back time … Continue reading Winds of Mayhem – Ascend, Thy River
I’ve said it many times before and I’ll say it again: there is no other single style that can capture the ever-changing spirit of nature better than atmospheric black metal. We’ve gotten an absolute array of acts that have blown … Continue reading Elderwind – The Colder The Night
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