Creation of the universe, the suffering due man’s true nature, the threat of instant death, a jilted carrier […]
avant garde black metal
Proclaimed as poison, tool, and a spear through creation’s quivering breast, there is no certain ego attached to […]
Does an equal and opposite reaction exist for those who’d bear down upon dissonance with such a fury […]
With fear of an entire circle of futuristic high-art black metal artists would be rendered homeless with the […]
Pulpit or podium before him, and before we wretched endangered species, this frightening judicator rises as our congealed […]
The taming of wild beasts and grand defiance of death by way of great feats of gymnast and […]
The auditory hallucination is without failure a signet of a failing region of the brain be it chemical, […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Though he is remembered as a knight, constable, courtier, and duly beheaded traitorous conspirator Sir Michael Stanhope would […]
In facilitating the repose of the souls of their dead Polish black/death commanders Totenmesse assume the role of […]
Once inducted into the whirlwind of our modern day epidemic of “bad faith”, as Sartre would describe it, […]
The ripples of certain avant-garde guitar phrasal play and orthodox black metal tonality originating in France, Sweden and […]
Consider the thirteen year history of Imperial Triumphant a tale of gentrification. Born in the human meat grinder […]
This grand silver platter of seconds is the overflow from the sessions for long-conceived debut of Aldrahn (Dødheimsgard, The Deathtrip) […]
In their earliest movements Lychgate were nothing short a flowing, heaving gust of black metal from the void-pulsing […]
Portal’s fifth full-length is an achievement in the realm of extreme metal guitar playing that pushes the limits […]
Up until two years ago Arkheth had spent most of their 17 years as a full band masterminded […]
The thinking behind releasing two full-lengths within one month of each other is questionable. One of them will […]
Krallice have more recently taken themselves to task as one of the more interesting bands exploring the ‘technical’ […]
Though this mysterious avant-black Canadian trio is often described as discordant and strangely dissonant, the more I listen […]
