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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 […]
ad noiseam \ breakcore \ drum and bass \ glitch \ Gore Tech \ the one the only the one and only only forever
Gore Tech – Futurphobia
Man, ever just want to drop some damn bass? Ever want to hear that low-end rumble pulsing through your organs and causing a hemorrhage? Ever just want to pump up that system and blow your speakers, driving around mall parking lots for some nightmare on bass street? Stalk with that bass, assault with that bass, […]
Argentina \ black metal \ Downfall of Nur \ Ksenza Records \ nature worship lust
Downfall of Nur – Umbras e Forestas
Interesting that this is the first review we tackle after the birth of my (editor) daughter this past week. After weening her on dark synthwave with GosT and then giving her some classical, it was time for the full indoctrination with this sick promo sent to us from Russia. Black metal for child rearing? Yes, […]
atmospheric \ doom \ Finland \ funeral doom \ Oceanwake \ post-doom \ ViciSolum Productions \ yeah we made that up
Oceanwake – Sunless
Slower varieties of doom, those that enter the realm of the funereal, are often overlooked except by this sick, vibrant niche of freakos who find themselves content with purposefully getting jaundice and sitting in the darkness after the electricity is shut off, their bills long unpaid after hours of self-induced misery. All that remains is […]
Black Plagve Productions \ covered in filth and waste and all forms of wonderful excrement \ dark industrial \ Malignant Recordings \ noise \ Sewer Goddess
Sewer Goddess – Painlust
If you were one of the five people who was paying attention on our Facebook page today, apparently saying the word ‘girl’ anywhere near the word ‘noise’ incites a mental riot inside those who think you’re making some trite comment about ‘girl noise’. First off, we weren’t. Second off, we know exactly what said user […]
Awe \ Back to the Future \ Be Persecuted \ Biff \ Black Hate \ black metal \ China \ End \ Endorphins Lost \ Flvx Capacitor \ Grausamkeit \ Greece \ hardcore punk \ III Damnation Productions \ Mexico \ power violence \ raw to the point of still alive (but that's not good this time) \ Ruho \ Self Mutilation Services \ suicidal black metal \ Vacantfield
SPLITting Headache – Buncha Metal
Well, we finally made some sense out of what we want to do with this new special feature of ours, titled, as you can see, SPLITting Headache. The problem we’ve always had with splits is that you have at least two bands, but sometimes more than that, and how do you go about reviewing that? […]
7 Degrees Records \ Abstracter \ ambient \ An Out Recordings \ black metal \ Church of Fuck \ drone \ experimental \ Fragile Branch \ gawd so many labels \ post-black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Shove Records \ Vendetta Records
Abstracter – Wound Empire
Boy, these guys are persistent as all hell. That’s a lot of persistence, if you didn’t know, using the word hell with anything is like ‘a lot’ but it sounds more kvlt. And this persistence clearly came from a need to purge the soul, because when we first met Abstracter almost a year ago, we […]
