THRASH ‘TIL DEATH is a 50 week long set of features exploring the legends who crossed over between […]
swedish metal
Flitting dark black at its rounded edges, as if losing sunlight in the drowned-dead underwater tunnel vision beneath […]
The actual discernible scent of death that triggers instinctive avulsion or a general prey response can be generalized […]
To be so perfectly crystalline in arrangement and encased in ones own rigid perfection is the only state […]
Cold is the winter serpents howl with ancient Swedish forms of blackened ritual weighing across my cracking frailties […]
To have witnessed ‘Through Silver in Blood’ change the world of heavy music from the inside out first […]
In reaching a point of behavioral sink without insight the supposed top of the food chain teems with […]
Formed in Västerbotten area northeastern Sweden circa 2003, as a non-serious ‘black metal parody’ band named Valmer & […]
So much of James Coulter‘s descriptions of the greater metaphysical aspects of the moderately thoughtful Germanic Heathenry rest in […]
With time the disintegrating and self-shaming hulk of Göteborg’s brief melodic death metal superiority mutates into parody and […]
Unless you’d found your self paying particularly close attention to the space between Therion and Thrash AD in […]
The decline of Melville after the ‘great peak’ of Moby-Dick; or, The Whale was long contributed to side-effects […]
Though they were a major gateway for many, and certain darlings for folks discovering the undying power of […]
Scowling, kidney-punching Swedish doom rings raw in your blood gushing ears as Alastor‘s haze-coughed and staggering psychedelic doom […]
The traditions of Swedish blackened death metal run deep into the ultimately ragged obscurity of first half of […]
An alliance formed in 2007 immediately following the collapse of the underrated prefatory genius of Ceremonial Execution alongside […]
Serving as grand presage to the looming threat of a new album, Göteborg heavy rock band Hypnos smartly […]
When I first heard Swedish extremists Those Who Bring the Torture back in 2007 I shrugged them off […]
Thanks to the magic of databases, personal record keeping, a mild eidetic memory and the efforts of many […]
Scandinavian black metal offers a grand graveyard of legendary yet short-lived record labels and Tomas Nyqvist’s No Fashion […]
