The mind in reflection is the pitiable curse of waking sentience. This deathlike abyss is represented by the […]
black metal 2020
On all fours in the grime of Utrecht, our bellies dragging on cobblestones slicked with sea water, half-digested […]
The pale glowing torsion of flesh cringing away from freshly lit pyre — There is a lurking evil […]
Murdered for the madness his post-traumatic opulence dictated, our protagonist swings with the momentum of death’s seizuring scythe. […]
Just as the walls of fortification seem a bit steep in the eye of a peasant they’d read […]
For those confident enough to claim their word history, name him Jupiter in script and worship duly. Replace […]
“Whence things have their origin, Thence also their destruction happens, According to necessity” — From all angles of […]
Heed the guru-ājñā, flexing freely with a painterly intuition — Evocation alone is not enough when mental images […]
The exalted objective of a black metal spurned anthroposophy, an alignment that’d divine some intellectually comprehensive spiritual world […]
Elevated by the conviction of Satan, one thousand hidden acts beyond the nourished seedling yetzer hara, the adjudicator […]
The equidistant longing of crypt and cosmos — Life is a battery of dire warnings heeded by a […]
The slow dissolving corpse of SIPA.ZI.AN.NA — In aiming their arrow towards the most capable era of Greece’s […]
The ascetic asleep beneath the stars — Without womb or hovel to provide a third or fourth layer […]
The burning solar wheel of Ixion — The impossible notion of balance in the impermanent yet hopelessly obfuscated […]
Ominous signs spell out the slow and slinking doom of deeper-festering pestilential harass when scried, traced along sigillum […]
Standing before a towering gate hewed out of deep blue, calcified liquid, an unknown wanderer treads with compelled […]
Malizia in malebolge and I, the mendicant witness. Wherein the eighth circle is drawn beneath the veil of […]
A natural philosopher pinned behind glass with ear cupped against the cold pane, listening for the sound of […]
With the flesh of the fingers torn away by carrion obsessed birds, with teeth shattered from jaw and […]
This second summoning, and debut full-length, from German black/heavy metal duo Hexenbrett extends their Deutsche-sung cemeterial warping of […]