When it comes to what we normally expect from black metal, dreary environments and only the darkest of emotions come to mind given how harsh and unforgiving the style has always been in a great majority of its forms, but … Continue reading Vela Pulsar – Memoirs Of Unbecoming
An album with a story is almost always more compelling when you have a slight idea of what’s going on even when you cannot understand a single word that’s being said, and it’s in the realm of black metal that … Continue reading Ungfell – Es grauet
I don’t know about you, but it’s when black metal steps out of its typical boundaries to find new territory to call its own whether it’s territory we’ve been to before with a different band or a new name that … Continue reading Gexerott – Hallucinetic Violet Ignition
It tends to be that black metal focuses more on the atmospheric and lo-fi veins of its many branching sounds, and while that’s far from a bad thing we all know that there is so much more to black metal … Continue reading Angrrsth – Donikąd
Black metal has never been lacking a mystical factor even since its early days. It’s not that hard to implement a sense of mysticism into the harsh style as even something as small as half-decent chimes could make for an … Continue reading Volc Vermaledide – Nietig
There’s a virtually endless number of bands out there in the sprawling underground of metal that can be considered anywhere near esoteric or downright mind-melting for one reason or another. It tends to be from places like I, Voidhanger Record’s … Continue reading Sleepwalker – Noč Na Krayu Sveta
A band that dares to cross the lines of genrefication and seems to really go out of their way to bring forth an experience that truly defies expectations and puts us through a listen that’s damn good right from the … Continue reading Muka – Patologija Poniznosti
If you ask me, one of the last areas of black metal that really needs a proper surge in material and bands putting forth great efforts in is where the style crosses over with folk metal. Such a combination has … Continue reading Felled – The Intimate Earth
Brazil has never once been lacking when it comes to churning out interesting metal bands by any means whatsoever with it being the bastion that many of us go to in order to get a proper fix of what South … Continue reading Kaatayra – Toda História pela Frente
To challenge yourself as a creator of any sort of musical material is to set yourself down a path that has no clear ending for it varies from one artist to the next with one being given the limelight with … Continue reading Esoctrilihum – Dy’th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
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