Tag: Black
Ihsahn – After Review
Vegard Sverre Tveitan has been a mainstay of the vast metal underground for over 15 years. At the ripe age of 17, he helped to write and record the groundbreaking self-titled EP with Emperor, a …
Bound By Entrails – The Oath To Forbear And The Burden Of Inheritance Review
Examining a map of the United States will reveal that the majority of well-known American black metal is a little weak on seeking out extreme climates and landscapes. The it-bands from the Pacific Northwest are …
Krallice – Dimensional Bleedthrough Review
originally written by Jim Brandon “Rest your weary brow in laughing sighing boughs / Soothe your fevers in the pulsing bark and rot / And dream of nothing…” While we’ve seen and heard many established …
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. …