Some people complain that black metal has become “too complicated” and you get all sorts of sounds nowadays that sound nothing like the genre’s founders, but you know what, for us, it’s a feature, not a bug. You know how we like our black metal? Not boring. So if Ultisol rubs you the wrong way […]
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Review: Fatal – Unburned (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, DSBM
Missing a bit of angst and bitterness this Sunday? Worry not, we got you covered. From doomy passages to frantic blast beats, Unburned can be your companion today offering a prime expression of fiery rage with an excellent addition of melancholy, hopelessness and sharply well-written lyrics against the duality of religion and its rule, alongside […]
Review: Nocthun – Rest In Flames (Full album , 2024) | Black metal
Nocthun self-describes as apocalyptic antifascist metal and it pretty much sets the mood for Rest in Flames, their new album. This 48-minute album starts slowly with a first track starting with spoken text and low-volume instruments before being quickly overflowed by raging guitars and drums, in a mix of death metal guitar riffs, and blast […]
Review: Convulsing – Perdurance (Full album, 2024) | Prog death metal
There are a lot of bands and musicians in the style of dissonant, technical or avant-garde death/black metal that can create interesting and original textures, but not many that can powerfully grab your attention and create an everlasting impression like Australia’s one man death metal powerhouse Convulsing. Having already delivered two acclaimed albums in 2016′ […]
Review: Dysthymia/Saeva (Full split, 2024) | Black metal
On today’s release, we listen to this often-intriguing pairing of depressive and atmospheric black metal. Starting with three tracks of Denver’s Saeva we are presented with mostly dry and hard-produced mid to high-tempo drums forming an effective rhythmic base on which the project sets a well-known sound of strongly distorted guitars and pulsating bass in […]
Maridia – Through Thorn and Bone (Official video clip, 2024) | Post-hardcore
Today we have the music video for “Through Thorn and Bone” by Maridia, from their debut album Mouth of Ruin, which came out earlier this year and was previously featured on the Antifascist Black Metal Network. The crew is from Sweden they are anti-fascists and play sludgy post-hardcore with post-metal, in exquisite style, all with […]
Review: Mordran – The Midnight Woods (Full album premiere, 2024) | Black metal
Releasing on March 29 after a full-length and two EPs last year, the Swedish one-man project Mordran returns with another piece we have the pleasure to premiere today. With a cold and raw ambience fitting for the season it was conceived in, The Midnight Woods promises us to be the embrace for a long night to […]
Review: Genital Shame – Chronic Illness Wish (Full album, 2024) |Experimental black metal
Genital Shame is the one-woman project of Erin Dawson from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Chronic Illness Wish is her first full-length album, after two eps released in 2023 and 2022. Although a young project, Genital Shame has entered the black metal scene with a bang, playing shows and creating noise about the project which has reached […]
Review: Cinerea – Cinerea (Full EP, 2023) | Atmospheric post-sludge
Today we bring a Berlin-based quartet making á la Belgique/’USesque’ atmospheric post-sludge with lyrics and titles in Portuguese, Italian, and English. Oh, and they are called Cinerea. The quartet presented its debut EP at the end of 2023, and there is so much thought and effort put into it we could be making an essay […]
Review: Morvigor – De spiegel (Full EP, 2024) | Black Metal
For all of its colonial crimes and its important role in imperialist politics nowadays, it’s a fact that the Netherlands have been for a long time one of the places where the arts have been the most developed in capitalism. This might be most obvious in the visual arts, with such unavoidables as Rembrandt, Hieronymous […]