The deepest echoes of dissonant blackened death metal noise initially appears to hold as much value and sensible […]
Formed as a blackened sludge metal/hardcore hybrid back in 2009 Ravenna, Italy based band Hierophant have slowly evolved […]
To delve into the work of Finnish black metal musician and artist Shatraug (Ville Pystynen) is to quickly […]
If you’ve already begun to groan at the endless legion of extreme metal lyricists portending the apocalypse is […]
The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
The glittering, catchy, reverb-drunk super-80’s puritanical heavy metal wail of Toronto’s answer to White Wizzard and Enforcer isn’t […]
Formed as a supremely grotesque doomed death metal outfit in 1988, Cottbus, Germany project Necrophenistic Nightmare would undergo rapid […]
So many easily shattered doorways beyond surface level heavy and/or extreme music exist that it would seem they […]
There is some danger in hearkening back to a time when heavy metal had finally ‘proven’ itself as […]
Again the occult black/death unorthodoxy of Valdur rises but this time roughly a month short of a year […]
Any major influential work within an insanely iterative genre has the potential to absorb the achievements of others […]
Without getting too deep into Naked Snake‘s greater philosophical ambitions over the last several decades I feel it […]
Just in time for the legalization of cannabis across Québec comes the second album from retro death metal hammer […]
Without any ruleset informed by new and already weakening traditions the idea of post-black metal is potentially very […]
There is seemingly endless artistic license in the creation of simulated chaos characteristic to the impressionistic ‘dissonant’ blackened […]
Hours have passed in the muted candlelit glow of this ritualistic haze created by billowing incense and the […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Few stylistic movements in the classic era of speed metal are as packed with inspiration as the piercing, […]
Gas-huffing existentialist phenomenological self-examination inspired by the flattened aura that regularly getting lit provides is a major cornerstone […]
Beyond the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains lies refuge for the depraved in the unincorporated desert wasteland […]
