As one of the most expansive and densely populated sections of black metal in our modern digital age, it can often feel intimidating to dive into the deeply layered world that is atmospheric black metal. But, like all styles, there … Continue reading Unreqvited – Beautiful Ghosts
Black metal has always had a certain essence of iciness to it all when we consider the style in some of its rawest forms, but it’s not terribly often that we see a band expand on that to really take … Continue reading Vixenta – Polarity
There aren’t very many instances where we can look into the depths of a black metal release and feel like you’re looking at something beautiful given the very nature of the style itself, but black metal has never once been … Continue reading Noltem – Illusions in the Wake
When we peer into history when looking through the lens of metal, it’s rare that we find ourselves going back any further than maybe a couple hundred years for one reason or another, but it’s truly rare to come … Continue reading Thecodontion / Vessel of Iniquity – The Permian-Triassic Extinction Event
It’s always fascinating to keep coming back to bands over and over again across many years and always being surprised every time you come back to them, and it’s quite a fortunately lengthy list in my case with it happening … Continue reading Norse – Ascetic
A band that manages to come up out of virtually nowhere and make waves will always be worthy of investigation by all accounts, and that was far from the case a few years ago when Defacement came out of the … Continue reading Defacement – s/t
It tends to be that when a band chooses to incorporate multiple styles into their particular brand of sonic madness that two is the maximum that many tend to go for. Whether it’s to keep things simple or the fear … Continue reading Serpentrance – Akra Tapeinosis
I’ve gone on record multiple times to this point to do what I normally don’t and proclaim a specific band as one of the most essential of its kind in this century with it being a beyond-appealing act that doesn’t … Continue reading Dødsferd – Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow II
When we think about all that can be done when the worlds of black and death metal are brought together for one caustic experience, there are virtually endless possibilities when it comes to works that can truly bend the mind … Continue reading Veilburner – Lurkers in the Capsule of Skull
The implementation of psychedelia is always a tricky thing to pull off no matter what angle you’re approaching it from. While it tends to be in the many halls of doom that it finds a home there are certainly other … Continue reading Sol Kia – Zos Ethos
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