Formed in Västerbotten area northeastern Sweden circa 2003, as a non-serious ‘black metal parody’ band named Valmer & […]
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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 […]
The long history of Runemagick goes back almost a full thirty years to roughly 1990 when the suburbs […]
Nobel prize winning revolutionary journalist, philosopher and author Albert Camus is remembered best for his contributions towards absurdism, […]
Outside of a couple of demo only bands in the new millennium and the ever-revered Gorement, very few death […]
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 […]
No greater unrest exists than that of rabid Swedish melodic death metal fans patiently waiting out the ‘dissolution […]
Swedish death metal label Wrong Again Records was, in hindsight, off to an incredible start in releasing formative […]
