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dreadful black metal \ Lieve Verschuier \ Norway \ Purity Through Fire
Unholy Craft – Naar All Tid er Omme (Good Dreadful Norwegian Black Metal)
Black metal + Norway = banal banalities? I feel like the genre’s particular focus on Norway during the 1990s led to a later “ugh” reaction towards anything from that region, except from those who know little. Even the “greats” we pretend were or still are “good” seem to fail miserably every time they reappear. […]
catacomb synth \ Cloven Hoof Brewing & Releasing \ depressive black metal \ Norway \ Terratur Possessions
Syning – S/T (Catacomb Synth Depressing Black Metal)
Oh groan, I said, scoping the cover of this. I like my corpses in black and white, but though I’m not 100% certain I’m pretty sure this is yet another metal cover utilizing a shot from the Capuchin catacombs. If not, something close to it and when repetition of this nature is strong, you […]
blackened thrash \ Hex Graphics \ Norway \ Pulverised Records
Evoke – Seeds of Death (Nasty Filthy Angry Blackened Thrash)
I feel like this is always a great way to end a week and usher in the weekend beeoches. Nasty, filthy, and angry thrash. Open the week with funeral doom, end it with this, that’s what I say. Unfortunately the promos don’t respond often enough to make that a permanent reality, so you’ll have […]
blackened thrash \ Dying Victims Productions \ High Roller Records \ Marcus Sjöberg \ Norway
Töxik Death – Sepulchral Demons (Umlaut is Okay Sometimes Thrash)
I’m waiting for the day I tire of blackened thrash and I’m like yeah okay heard this, heard that, yeah okay, I’m done. But we’re not there yet. The more bands toss little experiments in there, the less likely it’s going to be soon. In this case even a goddamned umlaut wasn’t enough to […]
abhorrent black metal \ BMS Illustration \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Norway \ ritualistic black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Deadlight Sanctuary – Thaumaturgical Rites of the Damned (Abhorrently Not Kvlt Ritualistic Black Metal)
Sometimes I wonder how black metal can do the same old thing, but here I go again with that oft-stated conundrum. It’s the same thing with classic hardcore, punk, and the like. There’s always the typical, and that’s what pretty much runs the genre as a whole. But jeez, I say, why can’t more […]
Khaos Diktator Design \ Norway \ Norwegian black metal \ Osmose Productions \ rot in bed \ Stefan Todorović
Nattverd – Styggdom (Rot in Bed Black Metal)
Rarely do I bother with straight-up, “you’ve heard this,” “I’ve heard this,” “everyone has heard this” black metal, from Norway even. The greats are mere vessels of fandom, or gone, the LPs keep getting repressed for who knows what reason, and aside from a track or two out of an entire discography, most of […]
Black Viper \ Dying Victims Productions \ High Roller Records \ Norway \ power metal \ speed metal \ wow they did it
Black Viper – Hellions of Fire (Woah You Guys Do Power and/or Speed Metal?)
Sheah, we do power metal and/or speed metal on occasion. Got a problem with the gap in reviews? Huh? Deal with it (sunglasses drop), because most of it sucks hard. Too old school and/or not enough modern bite. Unlike thrash, which the majority of us can give a pass to regardless of how old […]
black metal \ Crest of Darkness \ Grimface Distro \ My Kingdom Music \ Norway \ obscurity to the max \ seriously this is so obscure it makes no sense
Crest of Darkness – Evil Messiah
First glancing at this cover, you’ll probably giggle. It sends out black metal signals like the lone captain of a sinking dinghy shooting up flares. “Look at me, help me, I am here!” he screams into the black night, surrounded by nothing but a sea so vast the chances of anyone seeing his desperation is […]
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 […]
Fysisk Format \ MoE \ noise rock \ Norway \ true noise rock no assumptions
MoE – 3
You know, there was this one time we received the then newest full-length by the much-hyped Årabrot, who even makes sure on their own site you know they’ve been “ridiculed and ignored by the press” and hated by the “glossy black metal establishment” in their home country of Norway. Having actually reviewed their 2010 release Revenge, we can […]
