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Category Archives: Black Metal
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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Tagged Ambient, Black Metal, soundtrack, Summoning, with doom we come
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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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Two promising demos from 2017: Sickness (Finland) and Moenen of Xezbeth (Belgium)
Extreme metal should have always remained lo-fi, a sentiment previously expressed and one to abide by. In a technologically advanced age, however, a tendency such as this could be construed as mere gimmick if the grime doesn’t in fact … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ambient, avzhia, Belgium, Black Metal, dawn of morbid sorcery, death metal, deus maledictus est, finland, moenen of xezbeth, sickness, Thergothon
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Perverted Ceremony – Sabbat of Behezael (2017)
Perverted Ceremony have taken the best trimmings from the primal black metal second wave and created an album which feels pulsing and dangerous even at this late date. Sabbat of Behezael is obviously influenced by the likes of Beherit, Von, … Continue reading →
Engulfed – Engulfed in Obscurity (2017)
An absolute, instrumental death metal album and the changes which this shift in paradigm would necessarily induce in core songwriting remains fascinating to think about. Tonal consistency and eventual unity across the album, much after the manner of classical composition, … Continue reading →
Do Skonu – Hell (2016)
What is it that one means when they use a geographical association to describe a piece of music? North American death metal and its subsets, Norwegian black metal as opposed to Finnish black metal, and then further beyond that ambit, … Continue reading →
