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
Many times, to create a great album is to great a unique experience. Some bands manage to accomplish that by more conventional methods as they propel themselves into fame and the limelight of their corner of music, but others intentionally … Continue reading Oldd Wvrms – Codex Tenebris
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.
There’s not even black metal in America, these days. Sure, there are plenty of notable acts that have made names for themselves over the decades, but it feels like every new act of black metal comes from everywhere except America, … Continue reading Automb – Esoterica
I’ve always been the sort of guy to really dig listening into a band’s very first steps because I love hearing something that could’ve very easily been spawned in someone’s basement or garage. It’s a very raw thing that we … Continue reading Vampiric – Death Tore Through
Pagan metal is one of those styles that always a little tricky for me as sometimes it just feels like a name that some black metal artists use to make themselves sound different on paper, but when you actually hear … Continue reading Nordland – The Dead Stones
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
There are many times that I need even the briefest of breaks from a style simply because I don’t want to tire myself or even go far enough as to burn myself out with it for a little, and it … Continue reading Croc Noir – Mort
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
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