Tag: Black
Midnight – No Mercy For Mayhem Review
Coming off some great EPs and beastly full length Satanic Royalty, Midnight crept into the hearts of many an leather-donned ‘head through a combination of Venom’s proto black metal and Motörhead’s, well, everything. Speedy, riffy, …
Alraune – The Process Of Self-Immolation Review
Your affinity for The Process of Self-Immolation, the debut full-length from Nashville’s Alraune, may depend on your tolerance for genre traditionalists tinkering at the margins by melding together styles of black metal that don’t often …
Nidsang – Into The Womb Of Dissolving Flames Review
Black metal, with all of its offshoots, movements, and ideologies, lends itself to some creative descriptions. The easiest way to describe Sweden’s Nidsang on sophomore effort Into the Womb of Dissolving Flames? A violent churn. …
Iron Bonehead Roundup – Four Doses Of Pulsing Corruption
Y’all are down with Iron Bonehead by now, yes? No other label has been churning out the underground filth with as vicious a streak lately as these Handwerksmeisters of degradation. They’ve got a vigorous thumb …
Lantlôs – Melting Sun Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Lantlôs will always be tied to Alcest. Neige provided vocals for the project’s most prominent releases (to date), so comparisons are unavoidable. But while Alcest’s praises were humming on the lips …
Old Wainds – Nordraum Review
No other branch of heavy metal has seen more twists, turns, knots and other various amalgamations than black metal. Blame any number of its trailblazers’ glaring affinity for highfalutin’, or the fact that its root …
5Q5A – Forest of Tygers – United In Devastation
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Forest of Tygers‘ debut EP, Bruises, is a brilliant bastardization. As Captain noted back in April, it’s a smoldering, streamrolling mass of a record, as furious as it is genreless. That …
Don’t Cut the Crusts Off – Black Monolith, YAITW, and the New Black
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Metal fans are constantly railing against whatever they perceive to be fashionable. It’s a behavior we pick up at metallic birth, as soon as we penetrate the first rung of …