Tag: Black
Graveripper – From Welkin To Tundra Review
[Cover art by Adam Burke] Indianapolis’ appropriately named Graveripper is a combination of two of my favorite things: extreme metal and Hoosier hostility. Now, the black thrash ‘n’ roll outfit has been heavily covered here …
Krigsgrav – Stormcaller Review
In 2023, Texas metal quartet Krigsgrav released an album that resonated with me more than any that year, clinching the top spot on my AOTY list. A beautifully sinister cacophony of melodic black and doom …
Valdrin – Apex Violator Review
Fantasy is escapism. Like dirt and rot below our feet, metal and fantasy are symbiotic. Works of fiction, imaginary realms, allow us to detach ourselves from the often-discouraging sites of reality. Whether it’s the dark …
Teitanblood – From The Visceral Abyss Review
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in …
Labyrinthine Heirs – Labyrinthine Heirs Review
When a band’s influences are on the stranger side, can that band still claim to be strange, or are they just pulling from the weirdos that came before? Well, in the case of the Texas …
Exordium Mors – Sworn To Heresy Review
There’s something to be said for a band knowing their strengths, forming more strengths, and then really leaning into them. In the case of Auckland, New Zealand’s Exordium Mors, those strengths include mastery of multiple riff …
Obscureviolence – Refuting The Flesh Review
The world of black/death metal (which isn’t to be confused with blackened death metal, I think…) has loved its black and red album art ever since Fallen Angel of Doom…. dropped the first of its …
Best Of 2024 – Chris C: Abyssal Tendencies
What. A. Year. Musically. And otherwise, of course. We dove headfirst into the ever-expanding soundscapes of Oranssi Pazuzu, Thy Catafalque, Ihsahn, and Blood Incantation. We retreated to our cozy corner where Sabbat, Judas Priest, Necrophobic, …