Although I do place some value on the experimentation between the limitations of hard rock structures and extreme […]
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A dark and looming hunger grew within myself as a pre-teen listening to ‘Altars of Madness’ on cassette. […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Here we receive two of the very finest and visible examples of yet to be fully tapped potential […]
This three way split full-length between up-and-coming French atmospheric black metal projects appears as a collective vision from […]
Upon initially examining the do-it-yourself ethos of Grenoble, France progressive death metal project Demenseed I’d wondered if I’d […]
Throughout the history of French death metal few pockets of lasting impact remain as underappreciated as the short […]
So many easily shattered doorways beyond surface level heavy and/or extreme music exist that it would seem they […]
Any major influential work within an insanely iterative genre has the potential to absorb the achievements of others […]
Whether you’re describing genetic trait re-emergence as a biologist or cultural trends of reversion as a sociologist the […]
From their inception in 2009 this elusive and shrouded Parisian black metal band have delivered incorruptible occult black […]
Dissociative fugue is a slowly reversible amnesia of one’s own identity, a lapse of self that comes from […]
The grand defiance and esoteric wonder of classicist melodic black metal is it’s least appreciated asset as the […]
Formed several years after the dissolution of their former metalcore project AWOL Brittany, France-based technical thrash band Voight Kampff […]
Hailing from the unlikely city of Strasbourg, France a city known for very little metal outside of hard-to-find […]
My introduction to Loudblast was through their historical split CD with Agressor ‘Licensed to Thrash’ and being particularly […]
Originally conceived in 2007 previous to Clément Flandrois’ inclusion as a guitarist in Svart Crown, Hyrgal was an […]
French death metal band Bloody Sign began as a brutal-yet-technical project that evolved with increasingly experimental vision. The […]
The more I study melodic black metal the more I see it as a fleeting language within modern […]
Alright seventh album, seven guys, seven songs, seven minutes each, written in the key of uh, seventh notes… […]
