Review: Charisma Rat – ISAR (Full EP, 2024) | Black metal

https://youtu.be/1dD64MmkzN0 Band info Band: Charisma Rat Album: ISAR  Released: October 16th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: US Review Charisma Rat is a Baltimore-based project from the so-called United States. It has a very impressive discography for a project formed in 2017 (or at least from this year, which is the first episode). These are […]

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: Na Zarot – “Waste” (Single, 2024) | Raw black metal

Band info Band: Na Zarot Song: “Waste” Released: September 10th, 2024 Genre: raw black metal Location: Germany Review If you’re in for a (literally sadly) fast and intense experience today, stay for this brief time with us then as we introduce you not for the first time to Na Zarot, a promising and blooming raw […]

Review: Luciferian Strings – The Last Kingslayer (Full album, 2024) | Black metal, dungeon synth

https://youtu.be/GxxuzwE7Gt0 Band info Band: Luciferian Strings Album: The Last Kingslayer Released: November 1st, 2024. Genre: black metal, dungeon synth. Location: Portugal. Review Let me preface this next statement by saying that it does not represent the Network as a whole, just this specific reviewer goblin, but I was wary when I saw that Portuguese anarchist […]

Review: Imagine A Boot – Fearless Werewolf Killers (EP, 2024) | Black metal

Band info Band: Imagine A Boot  Album: Fearless Werewolf Killers Released: October 27th, 2024. Genre: raw black metal. Location: Netherlands. Review Imagine A Boot‘s new material is raw and -as the author mentions- iconoclastic raw black metal created out of fury at the rise of fascism. But before we get to anti-fascism a few words […]

Review: Clones Of Sirius – ‘Grandeur’ (EP, 2024) | Black metal, death metal

Band info Band: Clones Of Sirius  Album: Grandeur Released: October 22nd, 2024. Genre: black metal, death metal. Location: United Kingdom   Review After their very exciting EP debut last year, Clones of Sirius is back again with another EP, Grandeur. This time around, though, Clones of Sirius really lean hard into blackened death over blackened thrash compared […]