Soothsayers and the sacred mysteries of scorched Earth — From “unclean” origin and concealed from the senses ’til […]
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The burning solar wheel of Ixion — The impossible notion of balance in the impermanent yet hopelessly obfuscated […]
Possession of the black flame, and never by it — Sparked by the source of all inspiration, a […]
Is there any true wonder left to feign at the sight of a gasping man, risen too suddenly […]
Though they appear as one and the same state of transcendental readiness in cursory study, the Buddhist concept […]
The potent sting of early 90’s Swedish melodic death metal and the all-too-serious dark reputation of the second […]
As the very end of the thirteenth century crowned the fourteenth an ever-emerging malcontent between statesman and peon […]
Whistling softly as crystalline bodies flitting with the exuberance of a newly freed dawn they wisp and melt […]
With countless pangs of grief bubbling to the surface and a hundred nights of near sleeplessness resultant an […]
Although the earliest rumblings of what would become Aphelion in 2018 began as a black metal side project […]
It’d be impossible to imagine the horrors of the scorned dead still spiraling in the minds of a […]
To be so perfectly crystalline in arrangement and encased in ones own rigid perfection is the only state […]
The general quality and inventive spirit of extreme metal today sees new higher standard set month by month […]
Through his decade long campaign of dominance over Gaul’s Celtic tribes Julius Caesar happened upon a great bout […]
Between the crumbling edge of a great bottomless chasm and the wolves shredding cloth and flesh from your […]
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 […]
Raised on a field biologist’s fear-inspiring parables the Grey Wolf was briefly conjured as the greatest antagonist of […]
In the throes of any detailed exploration of the melodic black metal sub-genre it becomes impossible to avoid […]
Here I present Part VII of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
