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Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation \ Arvas \ ATMF \ Norway \ true black metal without the kvlt
Arvas – Black Satanic Mysticism
For some reason over here I was just in the mood for some classic black metal. There was a longing deep inside for some atmospherically fragile chords, echoing vocals, Satanic imagery, and all of that. Thankfully while going through the recent glut of promo submissions, there was this. The cover gave it all away, this […]
death metal \ Embrional \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Old Temple \ Poland \ polish assault but not the comp \ Third Eye Temple
Embrional – The Devil Inside
This is just a personal thing, but damn this title reminds one of that critically panned should-have-bombed film The Devil Inside from 2012. Luckily this has nothing to do with that. So why even mention it? Sometimes things just happen around here, and just as we accept the random, so must you, or there is no […]
Australia \ Castigated Records \ Infernal Devastation Records \ Sewercide \ thrash for the future
Sewercide – Severing the Mortal Cord EP
Alright can someone please explain what an EP is? Seriously, what’s the cutoff? It seems something like a novella, everyone thinks they know what it means, but no one really does. You’d assume it means a short amount of time is spent musically, but then you get something like this here by Sewercide and it’s […]
Australopithecus Records \ doom \ Foehammer \ grimoire records \ heaviest doom \ heavy doom \ most heaviest doom \ the doomiest doomer doom
Foehammer – S/T
Everyone talks about apps these days. There’s an app for breastfeeding, there’s an app that apps that, we think, and there’s probably an app for how many bananas you ate in the past year, we just haven’t double-checked. Well, let’s say this, there needs to be a Foehammer app. What would it do? Just play […]
death metal \ Duplicate Records \ Hellthrasher Records \ like tots real death for realz \ No Posers Please! \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ Ritual Chamber
Ritual Chamber – The Pits of Tentacled Screams
And then there was this. Death metal anymore can really irritate us unless done right, and let’s be clear in case that implication wasn’t too your plebe mentality’s liking. It’s often not. It’s often trite and built on the same misogynist sliced-limb bullshit that was cool maybe thirty years ago. No one cares about your […]
actually those tags won't help you at all \ Arachnophobia Records \ black metal \ doom \ Poland \ Sigihl \ sludge
Sigihl – Trauermärsche (And a Tango Upon the World’s Grave)
Sat on this one for awhile. But it was much unlike the usual type of sitting. It wasn’t like sitting on your easy chair, or a lawn chair, or an armchair, it was more like a chair of nails, such as would have been used during the Witch Craze. This would be a useful analogy […]
Interview with Generichrist (Ironically Ungeneric)
Interviews always take forever. In particular because bands/musicians usually take forever to respond to simple questions. Further, when they do, it’s either a trite answer or they completely ignored certain important details. In this case that certainly didn’t happen, blame the editor (me) for the lack of speediness, but hey, we just had a baby three weeks […]
best black metal \ black metal \ Corpus Christii \ Folter Records \ moons and trees and black metal stuff like that \ Portugal
Corpus Christii – PaleMoon
If there’s one country that’s supremely diffuse in terms of its representation of various types of black metal, it’s Portugal, which is surprising considering its relatively small size in comparison to most of Europe. But in spite of its smaller landmass, hugging the ocean, or Spain, whichever direction it chooses to embrace, it’s filled with […]
awesome metal \ black metal \ death metal \ just good old fakkin metal \ Sweden \ The Ugly \ ViciSolum Productions
The Ugly – Decreation
Interesting that this album would be titled as such, considering it’s rather a form of creation than destruction. But before we get to that, let’s consider Swedish black metal. Sweden has a rather interesting history in the genre, being that it, though rooted in Scandinavian tradition, is somewhat separate in how it developed. You have […]
Arizona \ black metal \ Broken Limbs Recordings \ no joke this is the real black metal right here \ real black metal \ Sovereign \ US
Sovereign – Nailing Shut the Sacroscant Orifice
Wordiness is often a marker for headiness, and seriously any metal band that pulls out sacrosanct in their album title probably has something to say. But US black metal, sadly, has often not had much to say. Part of the reason for that is it gets covered over by all the clickbait BM worthlessness of […]
