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Category Archives: Black Metal
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 →
Posted in Black Metal, Death Metal, Grindcore, Retrospective
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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 →
Posted in Black Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Grindcore
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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 →
Horn – Turm am Hang (2017)
At this point in time, Horn is an identity unto itself, heedless of whatever genre constraints one wants to impose on it. Unabashedly melodic but in all the right ways, unafraid to refer to styles on the peripheries of black … Continue reading →
Posted in Black Metal, Heavy Metal
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Tagged Black Metal, germany, Horn, KOnflikt, Nerrath, turm an hang
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Clandestine Blaze – City of Slaughter (2017)
Mikko Aspa’s Clandestine Blaze remains one of the more undersung projects in black metal. On initial listens little more than a homage to Darkthrone‘s trilogy of classics, there is a gravitas and a seriousness which emanates from all of this … Continue reading →
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Tagged Black Metal, city of slaughter, clandestine blaze, finland, mikko aspa
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Horn – Feldpost (2015)
Feldpost is the continuation of Nerrath’s heroic and curiously old-world take on black metal. The general vibe of this project is far from the caustic variety, but one is also loath to peg it squarely under the flower-power brand of … Continue reading →
Urfaust – Empty Space Meditation (2016)
Empty Space Meditation is an album for the winter months. Each song here is a demonstration of a unique and not-always metal-related style of music. Equally at home among dark ambient, black metal, funeral doom’s homophonic dirge, gothic rock, and neoclassical … Continue reading →
Posted in Ambient, Black Metal, Doom Metal
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Tagged empty space meditation, Netherlands, urfaust
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Retrospective: Marduk’s Dark Endless is an underappreciated death metal classic
Like Darkthrone, Marduk started off as a death metal band, before switching styles to the infamous “norsecore” sound of the 90s. Unlike Soulside Journey, however, Dark Endless has never met real acclaim, but I believe the time has arrived to appreciate … Continue reading →
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Tagged dark endless, death metal, marduk, sweden
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