The Stone – Golet Review
With Golet, Serbia’s stalwarts of under-the-radar black metal excellence The Stone seem to have confidently turned the page on an era of their career. Their 2006 gem Magla achieved a mix of Drudkh-like atmosphere and …
Witchaven – Terrorstorm Review
It’s a shame that bands-doing-the-old-thing-better-than-the-old-guys-still-do-it never get much appreciation. (Or is it? Here at least, it is.) San Ber’dino’s Witchaven is a fine example of such. Put simply, they play slightly blackened thrash, had the …
Stielas Storhett – Expulse Review
Typically, a black and white photo of a lone band member looking frustrated, downtrodden, solitary, and/or confrontational gives way to thoughts of minimalistic raw black metal – the type of music made by one person, for one …
Zach Duvall’s Top 20 Albums of 2011
What. A. Year. Can’t say much else. I probably had 30 albums to try to squeeze into 20 spots and 15 into the top 10 this year. There was just so much wicked stuff I’d …
Lvcifyre – The Calling Depths Review
A year ago I was just finishing up my top ten list when Svart Crown dropped a freakish slab of blackened death metal called Witnessing the Fall at my reviewing doorstep. Their Immolation-inspired cacophony gave me a nice pile of hate to …
Klabautamann – The Old Chamber Review
At one point early in my collegiate career, I was in art school. I never much bought into the philosophical / existential / post-modern side of all of it (I did gain a keen sense …
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Everything Review
Lost, the 2010 debut from Dutch act An Autumn for Crippled Children, was a pleasant surprise: a moody, expansive, atmospheric and dynamic album that threaded the line safely between depressive black metal, doomy dirges and …
Thy Catafalque – Rengeteg Review
About a year ago I was introduced to the 2009 offering by Hungary’s Thy Catafalque, Róka Hasa Rádió, an outstanding combination of black metal, post-everything-but-Ulver recklessness, prog structures and many of the freakish elements that …