Skin, white-haired, unwashed, old and weathered enough to sag and dangle despite the tautness of the stricture glows […]
black thrash
Two plagues are presented as black and shining mirrors upon the eye-clawing masses made hysterical by the burning […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
In lieu of lofty imaginary visions or the horror of whatever prose might be fitting in description of […]
From the most superficial perspective possible the public conversation surrounding black metal today embodies the same stagnant ridicule […]
The second demo from Boston area blackened death/thrashers Rancorous finds the trio moving beyond the relatively basic ‘Tapping […]
Heresy itself is a liberation, a word with its core derived not from wrong-doing or uncouth apostasy but […]
Stacked with half a ton of wood and roaring for six full hours, the traditional funeral pyres described […]
METAL OF THE MONTH is a monthly feature that examines just that, a grip of fifteen of the […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
For all of the cumulative atomic payload offered by blackened thrash metal’s youthful excess so little of it […]
Black metal viewed from the panopticon as a deeply faceted entity reveals one of the most widely interpreted […]
Thrash metal itself has let its reigns slack in 2018 while the glorious power of death metal steals […]
Nigh pornographically heightened levels of paganistic pride run through this third album from Meerssen, Netherlands extreme thrashers Bifrost […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of July in the […]
No matter how hard he tried British polymath Charles Babbage could not best his greatest demons. He excelled […]
When Harald Nævdal (Daemonaz) and Olve Eikemo (Abbath) decided to branch out together with growing interest in black metal […]
Likely inspired by his stint drumming for Deströyer 666 on their ‘Phoenix Rising’ full-length, Nuclear Exterminator (Jarro Raphael) set out along […]
The meteoric blackened strike of Melan Selas‘ epic melodic black/thrash xiphos carved a great fiery slash to my […]
Obsessed with the cruelty and furor of the first wave of black metal and it’s thrash metal forbears […]
