For as long as black metal is around, I cannot help but feel like there will always be a large swathe of bands that come to the style that will hearken back to the classic days of the style for … Continue reading Vastatum – Mercurial States of Revelation
While I tend to deal more in releases that have the backing of at least a little studio magic in the form of EPs or full-length albums, there’s something about the particular magic of a well-done demo that I simply … Continue reading Moluchtas – Telos Terminus
When dealing with such a style like atmospheric black metal, the feeling of drowning in an absolute ocean of potentially interesting acts becomes all but endless with how overcrowded the scene can effortlessly be tagged as but it is still … Continue reading A Pale December – Death Panacea
The darkest reaches of the floor of the metal underground is the exact sort of material that many of us venture into when we simply don’t want a pleasurable experience. A little bit like how the Cenobites of the Hellraiser franchise seek … Continue reading Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against the Emanation
Whenever we talk about the longer forms of metal, it’s virtually always in the context of doom metal that our discussions always veer towards for obvious reasons, but it can be from almost any style that the form can take … Continue reading Velka – Purgatori Ignis Iudicium
Anyone who knows anything about me and my listening habits knows that there are a few constants that I always find myself adhering to when it comes to my listening habits whether it be subconsciously or very on purpose, as … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records – Label Sampler 2022
It’s always the case not far into any given new year that I find myself still looking back into 2021 for albums to investigate and lose myself in while I bide my time for the new year to have more … Continue reading Mistchaser – Kairos
A black metal record that draws from the very fabric of nature itself is far from an anomaly in our current climate for many different reasons, and it can effortlessly feel as though we’re drowning in throngs of bands that … Continue reading The Mist From the Mountains – Monumental – The Temple of Twilight
lt can feel too often that bands don’t use their debuts to their maximum potential whether it simply be due to the clear lack of experience or not knowing precisely what vision they want to bring to the table or … Continue reading Novichoke – Wounds
Even the best of us need to find time in order to explore different avenues of creativity whether it be strictly for the sake of brevity or to change things up. That’s something that all of us can relate to … Continue reading Ustalost – Before the Glinting Spell Unvests
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