Proclaimed as poison, tool, and a spear through creation’s quivering breast, there is no certain ego attached to […]
progressive black metal
To be torn away from ones own tunnel vision of psychotic self-direction and taken for a ride of […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
The potential bleakness one could emotionally achieve in times of solidifying trauma or those lowest points in life […]
Pulpit or podium before him, and before we wretched endangered species, this frightening judicator rises as our congealed […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of November in the […]
Once inducted into the whirlwind of our modern day epidemic of “bad faith”, as Sartre would describe it, […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
In researching the disturbing history of colonization and cultural eradication of the greater Los Angeles area native peoples […]
In hindsight the sordid discography of Bay Area avant-dark metal/post-black metal quintet Ludicra was forward-thinking. Equally invested and […]
Embodying the fertile fjord-slashed coastlines and bays of South-Western Norway, The Konsortium‘s modern and meticulous approach to progressive black metal […]
With each successive release it seems Portuguese progressive black metal band Scarificare‘s roster shifts or shrinks, yet the […]
Turku based Finnish black metal band Mormânt De Snagov have always been high-functioning melodic black metal starting with their […]
Rifling through a seemingly endless inbox of new music often makes me feel like Scrooge McDuck diving into […]
The thinking behind releasing two full-lengths within one month of each other is questionable. One of them will […]
Taake’s ‘…Doedskvad’ was a revelation in 2005 as it combined the majesty and precision of Emperor‘s later era […]
Though this mysterious avant-black Canadian trio is often described as discordant and strangely dissonant, the more I listen […]
The muttering stagnation of Enslaved’s increasingly progressive sound is an argument for the ‘metal mind’ versus the ‘progressive […]
When boiling down an album like ‘Upon My Cremation Pyre’ into it’s broadest strokes and deepest minutiae it […]
