Tag: Black
Witchmaster – Trücizna Review
Only with heavy metal is ugliness a complement. Poland’s Witchmaster revel in all things hideous and dirty, and in all things, well, metal. With this aim in mind, they spew forth nasty blackened thrash with …
Belphegor – Walpurgis Rites-Hexenwahn Review
originally written by Jim Brandon At one point, all too briefly, it looked as though Belphegor was primed and ready to leap quite a few rungs towards the top of the second tier of blast-oriented …
Skeletonwitch – Breathing The Fire Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas So, I sorta dug this band’s 2007 second album, Beyond the Permafrost, but also considered them the slightly more black metal influenced baby brother of 3 Inches of Blood with their take on old …
Secrets Of The Moon – Privilegivm Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell The revelation of Secrets of the Moon was an inadvertent one. Many moons ago (ha!), I was working through an arduous Antaeus infatuation, which began with with a late-to-the-party discovery of Cut Your Flesh and …
Gorgoroth – Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt Review
Chris Chellis’ take: After the dust of a band squabble settles there’s usually an awkward phase wherein all involved sit around playing thumb wars until enough courage is gathered to venture forth into the unknown. …
Weapon – Drakonian Paradigm Review
There’s just something indescribably appealing about a band that makes metal clean of artifice, and Weapon are about as sincere a band as has ever been amassed. Treating their moniker as a functional directive, this …
Pestilential Shadows – In Memoriam, Ill Omen Review
originally written by Jim Brandon With three-fifths of the band also making up the somewhat obnoxious Nazxul, I’ve been a little hesitant to tackle In Memoriam, Ill Omen, from Australia’s Pestilential Shadows. Thankfully, a few …
Marduk – Wormwood Review
Originally written by Erik Thomas There are few things as satisfying as a new Marduk album, even more so now that Mortuus (aka Funeral Mist’s Arioch) has joined the fold for a couple of albums, adding his twisted, anguished …