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Category Archives: Black Metal
Abigor – Höllenzwang: Chronicles of Perdition (2018)
On Höllenzwang, Abigor continue to dabble on the fringes of experimental dark metal while also making a conscious effort at including references to traditional black metal aesthetic. The result is an uneasy alliance and an exhausting listen, where mood and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigor, Black Metal, chronicles of perdition, Hollenzwang
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Mefitis – Widdrim Hymn (2018)
Mefitis – Widdrim Hymn This short EP from black-death band Mefitis reinjects the potency of narrative sorely gone missing from modern black metal, calling to mind the emotionally layered tapestries of such classics as Dissection and Dawn. Where your garden-variety “orthodox” … Continue reading →
Profanatica’s artful simplicity
All music ever aims to do is capture one aspect of psychology with sincerity and a degree of verisimilitude. Music doesn’t necessarily have to cover the entire breadth of human emotion; such a task is not only near-impossible, but also … Continue reading →
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Tagged Curling Flame Of Blasphemy, Havohej, Paul Ledney, Profanatica, profanatitas
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Into Oblivion – Paragon (2018)
Into Oblivion – Paragon The death that lurks within is the war that sets you free – Beyond The Golden Throne Paolo Girardi’s depiction of a bustling portside city from Roman times, complete with Doric-Tuscan facades and triremes, instantly and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Black Metal, Canada, Creation Of A Monolith, death metal, Into Oblivion, Paragon
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Nocturnal Graves – Titan (2018)
Nocturnal Graves‘ move to Season Of Mist and their subsequent change of style to a more sinister and restrained blackened death might make many cautious. A scroll down the label’s current roster reveals genre epithets like “post”, “sludge”, “progressive”, and … Continue reading →
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Tagged Australia, Black death, nocturnal graves, titan
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Pseudogod – Deathwomb Catechesis (2012)
[Condemner main songwriter Paul Bacque has an alternate take on Pseudogod’s notorious debut full length ‘Deathwomb Catechesis’] There’s a certain class of album that has to appear simplistic and off the cuff, even if it really isn’t, in order to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Black Metal, death metal, Deathwomb Catechesis, Pseudogod, Russia
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Necrophobic – Mark Of The Necrogram (2018)
Necrophobic have circumvented the law of diminishing returns better than many worthies of the past; ever a band in touch with the lineage of classic heavy metal, Necrophobic somehow managed to subsume their intensely melodic and syncopation-heavy writing style into … Continue reading →
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Tagged Black death, mark of the necrogram, Necrophobic, sweden
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Why Destroyer 666’s Wildfire disappoints
With acute understanding of heavy metal rage and melancholy, Destroyer 666 went on to become in many ways the archetypal metal band of their generation. Deriving their elemental sound and technique from the neoclassical flair of Destruction‘s Sentence of Death, driving … Continue reading →
Summoning – With Doom We Come (2018)
Like certain multilayered pieces from Kansas‘ best work from the 70s, With Doom We Come is an album of many voices; as with all polyphonic music, the real test lies in isolating and evaluating the effectiveness of the individual voices, … Continue reading →
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Retrospective: Horrified, Chemical Exposure, Altars of Madness, and I.N.R.I.
A fine test of whether you take yourself altogether too seriously is to stay locked up in a room and play the four titles mentioned in this post’s header. If you can’t contain yourself from running around with mad abandon … Continue reading →
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Tagged altars of madness, chemical exposure, death metal, grindcore, horrified, inri, morbid angel, repulsion, sadus, sarcofago, sepultura, speed metal, swallowed in black
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