“It was the fog perhaps. The fog blurred everything. There were no precise outlines, no clear, sharp dangers, […]
symphonic black metal
For roughly seven days each year the crows gather to roost at the base of our hill, filling […]
“Many the monsters nursed / by the earth, a burden of dread, / the arms of the deep […]
Frustrating or, satisfying, as gatekeeping and elitism in black metal might appear from either side of the cosmic […]
A tradition of revolt within the Low Countries at the dawn of the fourteenth century inevitably aims our […]
Today we have the honor of premiering an impressive re-recording from CEREMONIAL CASTINGS, forgotten legends of independent pacific […]
A pure obsidian fang, hollowed and tall enough to spark lightning from the cloud-scraping pronged peak of its […]
Just as the walls of fortification seem a bit steep in the eye of a peasant they’d read […]
Standing before a towering gate hewed out of deep blue, calcified liquid, an unknown wanderer treads with compelled […]
Though they were young and might’ve felt naively misguided by their own tastes during their most formative years, […]
A gloriously wet-lidded union of Endymion and Selene, casting down her sky-blued peplos with an obscene sigh as […]
Manifesto designed to win credence among the philosophically obscured and machine-ground thinker must approach with drastic results in […]
Though it can be difficult to see a past behind the padded, spiked and smeared Wagner name-dropping shoulders of […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Bringer of higher education, a strategic genius for the ages, progenitor of civil code, an emancipator of the […]
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 […]
BRING OUT YOUR DEAD… is a collection of releases from 2018 that deserve honorable mention and short review. […]
Black metal viewed from the panopticon as a deeply faceted entity reveals one of the most widely interpreted […]
Complex and unfamiliar depths waiting in the midst of ‘easier’ options appear even more daunting once the scab […]
