Band info Band: Masse D’Armes Album: ‘Masse D’Armes‘ Released: November 8th, 2024 Genre: Black metal, dungeon synth Location: Canada Review Masse D’Armes is a new project emerging from Quebec, and it is a pleasure to present their debut mini album today. The music contained in this release is atmospheric black metal/dungeon synth with medieval themes. […]
Tag: Atmospheric black metal
Review: Pâenil Era – Idle Cage (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/post-black metal
Band info Band: Pâenil Era Album: Idle Cage Released: Released September 19, 2024 Genre: atmospheric, post-black metal Location: Romania Review Pâenil Era is a new post-black metal one-man band from Romania that introduced itself last year with its very impressive debut album ‘Deviere‘, showing an already advanced mix of atmospheric black metal with post-metal and […]
Review: Dawn Treader – Bloom & Decay (Full album, 2024) | Blackgaze
Band info Band: Dawn Treader Album: Bloom & Decay Released: released August 23rd, 2024 Genre: blackgaze Location: UK Review Like a soothing mist, it comes from the alleys of London today to paint an image in our minds of what is probably one of the closing and more interesting releases of the year so far […]
Review: Auriferous Flame – The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers (Full length, 2024) | Black Metal
Band info Band: Auriferous Flame Album: The Insurrectionists And The Caretakers Released: November 8th, 2024 Genre: Atmospheric black/thrash metal Location: Greece Review Barely a year after releasing the sophomore album, ‘Ardor For Black Mastery’, Ayloss is back with a new Auriferous Flame album, ‘The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers’. ‘The Insurrectionists’ carry over, sound and visual […]
Review: Mourn The Stars – Saudade… (Full album, 2024) | Melodic black metal
In Portuguese, saudade represents an emotional feeling mixing melancholy, nostalgia and hope. It’s the feeling of a strong longing for something or someone that is loved but also absent. By this title, the US-based band Mourn The Stars gives a taste of their first album Saudade…. If you’ve been following for some time now, you […]
Review; Mordran – One-and-Ninety Years of Darkness (EP, 2024) | Black metal
At this point, Sweden’s Mordran is probably already quite well-known for anyone who follows our channel, this being something like the 5th time they have been featured (it helps that they’re very productive). Their new EP, One-and-Ninety Years of Darkness, continues to explore atmosphere and ambience through black metal, this time with some added dungeon […]
Review: Mainländer – The Fall That Will Come (Demo, 2024) | Black metal
Demos always tend to be smiled at. They are the everlasting joke of black metal’s so often gatekept “true” form. So raw, so direct, so instant that the record can’t even be finished. Just an unprocessed mess that sounds like recorded by a microphone covered by a can standing in the room next door. But this […]
Review: Inherits The Void – ‘Scars Of Yesteryears’ (Full album, 2024) | Atmospheric/melodic BM
Inherits The Void, the French one-man band is back with a new excellent album! You may remember Inherits The Void from the review we did for their 2023 album last year, but let me rewind it for you: a solo band doing a complex melodic black metal, with shades of atmospheric black metal. This album […]
Review: 1648 – ‘Regicide of the Incorruptible Crown’ (EP, 2024) | Raw black metal
1648 is a one-person project from Liverpool and the year in which the Second Civil War broke out, ruled by the English elite Brittain. The war was, of course, part of a broader process of friction at the levels of government, between the monarchists and the power of Parliament. Add the issue of Catholicism and […]
Review: The end of… – Wistful Longing and Deranged Emptiness (Full EP, 2024) | DSBM
Hailing from Kelowna in British Columbia and making for a proper eve to a Gloomy Sunday of a kind, there’s today the demo released this year back in April by The End Of… (currently Arsgoetia) and remastered in June, which in a brief duration of 23 mins offered an interesting take on the ‘classic’ sound of […]