Tag: Black
Destruktor – Opprobrium Review
Australia’s Destruktor has apparently been around since 1997, but to date the trio has managed only a handful of EPs and splits and one full-length album, which was released almost six years ago. I can’t …
Cradle Of Filth – Hammer Of The Witches Review
Though in some sewer-dwelling internet circles it may still be possible to earn your in-group stripes by shitting on Her Majesty’s Merriest Misfits, if you are of the opinion that Cradle of Filth is not …
Svärta – Sepultus Review
Sepultus, the full length debut from Sweden’s Svärta, is a bit of a mess of a record. At its core, it’s a whirring cacophony of unholy black/death racket, nearing war metal’s confrontational blur of sounds, …
False – Untitled Review
For as much as the genre flaunts its supposed nihilism and negativity, at its best, black metal produces a sort of ecstatic trance in the listener. Thus, although the style is easy enough to muster …
Midnight Odyssey – Shards Of Silver Fade Review
The collapse of the record industry and the proliferation of inexpensive tools for independent recording and distribution have meant, in many ways, a liberation of artistic expression. On the whole, then, that’s a good thing: …
Vanum – Realm Of Sacrifice Review
The seed is a simple, descending tremolo line, a riff repeated in slightly different ways over the course of a phrase, but arriving at the same destination each time. It is featured in an obvious …
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis Review
The artwork is inscrutable; the production yawns like a bottomless well; the guitars warp and stretch; the album title is Greek and the closing song title Latin: you know it, you love it — Abyssal …
Vattnet Viskar – Settler Review
If metalheads were a fair bunch, they’d pick on the identical wardrobes of every “war metal” band as much as they focus on the looks of bands like New Hampshire’s Vattnet Viskar. Because really, the fashions …