When taking your first steps as a band, it can be quite a challenge to come across as a cohesive unit with a collective vision that feels realized, well-executed, and well thought out. Those initial steps are oftentimes what set … Continue reading Off Grief – The Grief Tapes
Intensity, by all accounts, is the name of the game in many corners of the underground, but what good is such presence if you do not know how to properly channel it to your advantage. When done so, your listeners … Continue reading Blasphemists Temple – Demo
As time has gone on, black metal has seen tremendous expansion in virtually all directions. We’ve witnessed what feels like every kind of experimentation come into the modern landscape of black metal with some obviously succeeding more than others. By … Continue reading Endspace – First Contact
Of all the trends that I’ve seen in the vastness of the underground and all that it has to offer, I am still very pleased to see the realm of funeral doom metal be expanded little by little at a … Continue reading God Unknown – Last Glimpse of Daylight
It ought to go without saying that an approach driven by deep emotional suffering is something that has long held a place within the vast capacity of black metal. Many times over have we seen evocative black metal capture our … Continue reading Encasement – s/t
Few things can ever truly compare to when a new name comes around and throws down a work that manages to be both refreshing and precisely what many of us are looking for in the given style. Metal has been … Continue reading Claymore – Houndskull
At best, it would be a mild understatement to say that the underground has some truly weird and unprecedented corners that see the genre twisted into forms unrecognizable, outside of the box, and undeniably strange. It’s where exceptional talent can … Continue reading Labor of the Negative – The Triumph of Time and the Disillusioned
It ought to go without saying at this point that out of all the issues that the vast underground of metal music suffers from, one of the most prominent has got to be oversaturation. It’s one thing for there to … Continue reading Mossystone – Paysages Tristes
For everything that can ever hope to be brought to the table, a dichotomous work can easily be some of the most engaging and interesting of creations when it’s pulled off correctly. A constantly piece can offer listeners quite a … Continue reading Void of Light – Asymmetries
A new name in the scene is far from an uncommon occurrence. We’re constantly bombarded by the arrival of fresh bands coming out of the woodwork to show us what they’re made of, but it’s not often whatsoever that we … Continue reading Ignobleth – Manor of Primitive Anticreation