To be so perfectly crystalline in arrangement and encased in ones own rigid perfection is the only state […]
swedish black metal
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Scandinavia is so righteously dotted with distinct extreme metal sounds, infamous scenes, stylistic movements, and flamboyant historical figures […]
Cold is the winter serpents howl with ancient Swedish forms of blackened ritual weighing across my cracking frailties […]
Inspired by the firebrand of Quorthon and the escalating rip of first wave black metal’s growth beyond speed […]
Here I present a grip of the most essential metal-related releases from the month of November in the […]
So much of James Coulter‘s descriptions of the greater metaphysical aspects of the moderately thoughtful Germanic Heathenry rest in […]
Black metal viewed from the panopticon as a deeply faceted entity reveals one of the most widely interpreted […]
Unless you’d found your self paying particularly close attention to the space between Therion and Thrash AD in […]
The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]
Before the ever-pounding waves of depression fully struck Linköping, Sweden born black metal band Vanhelga their earliest output […]
Though obviously open to interpretation in modern times Homeric descriptions of a hecatomb, a hundred head slaughter in […]
Rapacious in their early ambitions Linköping, Sweden based black/death metal band Nekrokraft were perhaps too eager on their […]
Swedish black metal band Svederna wasted no time in conjuring their debut full-length ‘Äntra’ roughly a year after […]
Though Corpsehammer are based in Dalarna, Sweden the band includes members from Chile and Sweden alike. Formed as […]
In their nearly decade long exploration of the darker themes of Swedish spirituality Heljarmaðr‘s great gray Grá resemble […]
This Swedish melodic black metal band originally formed as Unhallowed in 2014 but quickly changed their name in […]
When extending fandom of an ever-changing band across several decades it is absolutely healthy to analyze and rethink […]
Split LPs are often gateways to discovering exceptional like-minded artists without the claustrophobia that compilations can sometimes bring. […]
