Typically, it can take a band anywhere between two to five or more years to create a new album due to touring, personal obligations, creative breaks, and anything in between. A band that is constantly dishing out new material back … Continue reading Ende – Goétie Funeste
With many of us being in the depths of winter, sometimes it’s music that can really bring out the best of the season. It’s hard to find a metal album that accurately represents a season in general, but black metal … Continue reading Coldawn – …In the Dawn
The appeal of a split is not lost on me in any capacity. It can bring together two great bands for a monumental listen the likes of which we only could’ve hoped to see live before that. Splits tend to … Continue reading Precaria / Deathspiral of Inherited Suffering / Dominus Ira – Metamorphosphoros
The mysterious fathoms of the sea is such that can inspire everything from the greatest sense of wonder to the most intense sense of curiosity to the more profoundly deep fear. But for many, it invoked a sense of adventure … Continue reading Nydvind – Tetramental I – Seas of Oblivion
The realm of doom is a place that can vary from anything that’s little more than a hit of the ol’ bong to an incredibly dark, terrifying place that only the bravest or most foolish souls dare to venture. While … Continue reading Lowered – s/t
Of all my time in the current ocean that is the modern underground scene of black metal, I rarely come across any symphonic acts. I’m not sure if it’s the lack of bands performing the style or I’m simply going … Continue reading Inhibitions – La Danse Macabre
Something that has become a cult phenomenon in the global black metal scene in recent years is the creation of cosmic black metal in all of its infinite mystery. It’s bands like Mare Cognitum and Spectral Lore that brought the … Continue reading Lumnos – Ancient Shadows of Saturn
It’s very clear that a band’s first steps as an act can show a lot about what the band is about to get themselves into as well as what we can expect to see in the future should they stay … Continue reading Scolos – Infinite Recursion
There are some bands out there that have truly defined the metal scene in places like Bandcamp where it’s bands like Saor and Mesarthim that reign supreme whenever they put out even one song. Among such ranks is the act … Continue reading Harakiri for the Sky – Arson
Embodying your influences in something that throngs of bands have done ever since music was a thing from cover bands to emulating one orchestral score based on another. Metal is far from a stranger to it, and I’ve always found … Continue reading Isgärde – Eowlandsvintr
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