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Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant (Blackened Death Folk)

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Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant (Blackened Death Folk)

  Uh oh, tis a collab folks. Well this review started out bad, but this particular collab starts, and also ends, well. Consisting of various members of the Irish koovault wvndergrovnd, Verminous Serpent is new to death metal theatre with this first full-length. Whether or not it continues beyond The Malign Convenant is not a […]

Dauþuz – Vom schwarzen Schmied – Bergkgesænge (Mining Black Metal Works Wow)

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Dauþuz – Vom schwarzen Schmied – Bergkgesænge (Mining Black Metal Works Wow)

  Spectacular. Not only do we have here a band reinvestigating itself after only a few months, let alone at all, but we have a true achievement in the “niche effect,” which will hereby refer to any bands attempting to work bizarre themes into their sound. Usually tragic, here it’s epic. When so much has […]

Sainte Marie des Loups – Funérailles de feu (Italics for Emphasis French Black Metal)

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Sainte Marie des Loups – Funérailles de feu (Italics for Emphasis French Black Metal)

  Everything about this screamed commit thyself to the flames from the second I looked at it. Bleeding eye femme with a sword? A band name that references wolves? An album about funerals in fire? A sold out (damn it) vinyl release in red/black marble with a black and white cover? I mean everything about […]

Häxenzijrkell – Die Nachtseite (Halloween Black Metal is Good)

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Häxenzijrkell – Die Nachtseite (Halloween Black Metal is Good)

  Can this occult aesthetic hold out forever? It does for Halloween, at least, so why not black metal? And hey, we even have an orange and black theme for this one so quite fitting as we move into October. Witch, goat, cauldron, alchemical symbol for lead, skull, and some sword shit also. Yep, 20% […]

Essenz – Manes Impetus (Pandering Black Metal)

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Essenz – Manes Impetus (Pandering Black Metal)

  Manes Impetus, the latest from Berlin, Germany’s Essenz, is nearly an hour long which is fine if the goal is to produce a musical journey encapsulating the musical anguish of the forebears, artistic sadism, and creative passions. Aesthetic value 10/10, but we don’t score like that here whoops. This one progresses through some fairly […]