Review: Ivory Primarch – Excruciation (Video clip, 2024) | Doom metal

Today’s premiere is Ivory Primarch, a funeral black doom band from Melbourne. The first single of their new album The Portrait is “Excruciation“, a 9′ long title, built in 5 different stages, going from regular doom to funeral doom, gaining in intensity at every new stage. The track starts with a keyboard line, quickly joined by […]

Review: Witchden – “Renewal” & “Ash of the ancients” (Official videos, 2024) | Black metal

Today we bring not one but two official video clips to introduce you all to Witchden! They are a US-based quintet that has recently released their fourth full-length: Tomes of Madness Volume 1. As a brief example of what you will find on TOMVI‘ we have the song “Renewal”, starting off with very danceable black and […]

Ulltisol – “This Church” (Official video clip, 2024) | Entheogenic black metal

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 […]