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Te mănâncă sfinţii — No greater terror rips through the mind than kin’s haunted birth on the first […]
Soothsayers and the sacred mysteries of scorched Earth — From “unclean” origin and concealed from the senses ’til […]
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 […]
In my own experience theophany arrives through wonder, a naturally occurring gift of sight poured into those intuitively […]
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 […]
Dripping from the tips of a thousand fingers that’d hang dead from this great looming pyre of meat […]
To be so perfectly crystalline in arrangement and encased in ones own rigid perfection is the only state […]
The heavy eyelids of the densely populated European black metal massif barely appear to have batted at the […]
If you believe any and all forms of zealotry suggest clinical insanity then what great rebellion throughout the […]
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD… is a collection of releases from 2018 that deserve honorable mention and short review. […]
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 […]
With time the disintegrating and self-shaming hulk of Göteborg’s brief melodic death metal superiority mutates into parody and […]
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 […]
The murderous stench of Christianity’s seeming eons of human enslavement and cruelty has dribbled into every great civilization […]
Although they arrived nearly a decade after modern thrash metal’s most celebrated darlings St. Louis, Missouri blackened progressive thrash […]
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