After a couple of experimental, far-reaching albums Watain have made the decision to dial their sound and song-writing […]
melodic black metal
Music from the Netherlands can be as just as difficult to navigate as if I were a dumb […]
One of my all time favorite black metal albums is Taake‘s 2005 dark and jangly masterpiece ‘…Doedskvad’ with […]
Here I present Part III of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
There are few metal sub-genres that I am not a fanatic of but melodic black metal is perhaps […]
The more times I listened to Morvigor’s sophomore album the less I understood it, the more disparate my […]
Taake’s ‘…Doedskvad’ was a revelation in 2005 as it combined the majesty and precision of Emperor‘s later era […]
In their twentieth year of existence it would be easy to mistake Domgård for yet another re-envisioned take on […]
Kawir is one of the more notable long running projects from the early days of Greece’s infamous black […]
Here I present Part II of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
My understanding of the aged and earthen career of Shamaatae doesn’t often progress beyond admiration towards transfixion because […]
Not to be confused with Greek atmospheric death metal band of the same name, this third album from […]
When boiling down an album like ‘Upon My Cremation Pyre’ into it’s broadest strokes and deepest minutiae it […]
Here I present Part I of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that […]
