Tag: Black
Furze – The Presence… Review
I had trouble sleeping the other night. I woke up in that barely pre-dawn window where it’s getting light enough that you know you probably won’t be able to get back to sleep, but still …
Malthusian – Across Deaths Review
With both a quality demo and EP under their belt, Malthusian has been one of the more promising acts out of Ireland in the past decade. Further, they’ve been hailed as one of the better …
Sear Bliss – Letters From The Edge Review
The temptation when writing about a band like Hungary’s Sear Bliss is to obsess over what is so unusual about them (a horn section in a metal band) and neglect explaining how they excel at …
W.A.I.L. – Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination And Lunacy Vol. II Review
Three years, perhaps more. That’s how long it’s been since my copy of W.A.I.L. Vol. II arrived from a far away place—a place I had never been but had always wanted to go. There’s something …
Nachash – Phantasmal Triunity Review
A lot of extreme metal isn’t particularly, well, extreme. Melody, sheen, and progressive elements might end up dominating, or maybe there’s a tendency to lift a bunch of NWOBHM riffs, leaving some screeching dude as …
Destroyer Attack – Solve Et Coagula Review
Before we get to the album, a series of questions… Do you like your album art black, white, and red? Do you renounce the name of Jesus Christ? Do you pray nightly for total destruction …
Tatanhammer – The Art Of Human Sacrifice Review
While no details have been given as to the recording process of The Art Of Human Sacrifice, one can only imagine it as the three band members of the grave-robbing Finnish black metal outfit Tatanhammer …
Progenie Terrestre Pura – starCross Review
FAST RITES: because sometimes brevity is fundamental. As they did after their first LP, Italy’s industrial/black metal/sci-fi wizards Progenie Terrestre Pura have followed up the monstrous oltreLuna with an EP. But in contrast to the …