For those of us who would spend our lives digging through every record store encountered, and likewise scouring […]
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Cold is the winter serpents howl with ancient Swedish forms of blackened ritual weighing across my cracking frailties […]
Among countless glass-lunged artisan youth of the Romantic period drowned too early by the many fingered hands of […]
The general quality and inventive spirit of extreme metal today sees new higher standard set month by month […]
If you believe any and all forms of zealotry suggest clinical insanity then what great rebellion throughout the […]
Ruthless in approach and left spiraling atop boiling, rotten oceans of ammonia and sulphur great tempests produced beyond […]
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD… is a collection of releases from 2018 that deserve honorable mention and short review. […]
To set foot within slippery loam and atop sighing carpets of rainforest moss alike provides the sensation of […]
The first test of the waters from a new project featuring recognizable members of other bands is often […]
Between the crumbling edge of a great bottomless chasm and the wolves shredding cloth and flesh from your […]
Black metal viewed from the panopticon as a deeply faceted entity reveals one of the most widely interpreted […]
Ambition among those who are intensely collaborative versus those who go it alone can be accused of creating […]
Unless you’d found your self paying particularly close attention to the space between Therion and Thrash AD in […]
To delve into the work of Finnish black metal musician and artist Shatraug (Ville Pystynen) is to quickly […]
The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
In the throes of any detailed exploration of the melodic black metal sub-genre it becomes impossible to avoid […]
A quick glance at St. Louis, Missouri death metal quartet Cast the Stone‘s discography, and then each respective musician’s […]
Here I present Part VII of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
In researching the disturbing history of colonization and cultural eradication of the greater Los Angeles area native peoples […]
The lingering aftertaste of a public and non-communicative divorce more often than not manifests as slow personal resolve […]
