Black metal often claims to be a scene of rebels and angry outcasts, until you realise that a good majority of it is just middle-class Westerners using their art to complain that their ancestors converted to Christianity and deprived them of the opportunity to roleplay as vicious pagan warriors (never mind that 99% of their […]
Category: Full albums
Review: Hipoxia – Fragmented Revelations (Full album, compilation, 2024) | Doom, drone
If there would ever be a more fitting cover for this compilation it would be just slightly lighter than this pitch-black square that we are presented with for Fragmented Revelations by Hipoxia. Gathering all those songs from Hipoxia that would usually be hard to find on a physical medium, be it from being only released in […]
Review: Unholy Altar – Veil of Death! Shroud of Nite (Full album, Premiere, 2024) | Raw black metal
As weather gets warmer around those of us in the northern hemisphere and colder for those in the southern hemisphere we go searching for music to match these moods. Specifically, music that brings coldness to our ears and hearts whether it be through escaping the heat and treachery of the sun or matching the cold […]
Review: Sunrot – The Unfailing Rope (Full album, 2023) | Sludge, post-metal
It’s ironic that we are featuring a band called Sunrot today, as most of us, at least those in the northern hemisphere, are in between heatwaves that make us feel like rotting inside, and it’s fitting that the band sounds like hot sand stripping your skin. Loud and abrasive sludge in the camp of Thou and […]
Review: Ragum – ‘Beyouv’ (Full album, 2024) | Grindcore
Ah, grindcore! It’s always refreshing to have a barrage of short songs and barked vocals after some of our more usual long-form black metal menus. Today’s piece, however, is even more welcome than usual, for Ragum, our guests for this “beautiful” Monday, are a band from the city of Haifa in occupied Palestine/”Israel”, and outright […]
Review: TerraMorta – Intifada (Full album, 2024) | Grindcore
Intifada is a grindcore album with a black metal twist. Released a few weeks ago by the newly created band Terra Morta, this album is a very short but intense album, as you could expect from a grindcore band. Mixing crust punk, grindcore and some black metal rhythms, this album will match your needs of […]
Review: Human Abyss – Death Obsessed (Full album, 2024) | Blackened death
Today we have a lot to cut through with the most recent addition to the channel: Berlin-based Human Abyss, and its newest album Death Obsessed. Although this quintet only goes back to 2020, it is almost entirely formed by experienced musicians who have played in bands like Spawn (death metal) or currently active No On […]
Review: End – III (Full album, 2009) | Black metal
Today we have an old but historical black metal album to present to you, End‘s third and last full-length album from 2009. While the Greek band isn’t as famous as some of their contemporaries (also as a result of never playing live) they were quite influential around the early 00s for offering an alternative to […]
Review: Dancing Devilry – Voltairine (Full album, 2024) | Black metal
Today’s release by the one-person project from Florida, Dancing Devilry, is a distinctly anarchist and anti-fascist-themed album of great executed black metal. The sound and production are at a really high level, for sure it is a classic and fresh at once in sound black metal without any doubts or other genre influences. The metal […]
Review: Atlantic – Black Sands (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/post-black metal
As the waves that cyclically recede into the sea and come crashing unto the shore, Atlantic has returned to our channel almost two years since its first outing, bringing in more amazing musicianship, more torrential blast beats, more riffing crescendos growing evermore towards the horizon, and an even wider soundscape than before! Black Sands, their […]