Tag: Black
Lake Of Blood – Omnipotens Tyrannus Review
There’s a chance you’ve heard this one before. That is, if you’ve been even half-attentive to the prevailing currents in contemporary black metal over the past decade or so, the general sounds that emerge from …
WAN – Enjoy The Filth Review
originally written by Kyle Harcott Nose-picked Swedish frostfilth. Dungarees caked with human grease. Ugly tattoos. Tattered hair. Each successive inverted cross bigger than the last guy’s. Eskilstuna’s WAN could give two fucks. They’re here to …
Nocturnal Graves – …From The Bloodline Of Cain Review
The (surely) bullet-belted noisemakers in Nocturnal Graves play such a heavily blackened thrash that one could wager a life’s savings on a bet that they hail from Australia. And, lo and behold, Nocturnal Graves do …
Satan’s Wrath – Aeons Of Satan’s Reign Review
Well, here’s a sentence one doesn’t imagine has been written before: Aeons of Satan’s Reign is a love letter. Lower that skeptical eyebrow back to resting position, friends, because in all honesty, that’s exactly what …
Vulture Industries – The Tower Review
When you come across an album that ranges from a mix of Code and Root to full Arcturus worship, a touch of Solefaldian weirdness, and every quirky sound in between, the labels are tough to …
Germ – Grief Review
Do vocals alone make an album metal? If Martin van Drunen fronted an album featuring a classic three-piece jazz combo playing standards from the great American songbook, would you be required to call it metal? …
Inquisition – Obscure Verses For The Multiverse Review
2011’s Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm was a milestone of sorts for long running black metallers Inquisition, if only because it gained them a wider audience than ever before in their history, not …
Craven Idol – Towards Eschaton Review
First things first: Look at that cover art. Hang on, hang on, let’s make sure we’re looking at it properly. Click on this, and then LOOK. AT. THAT. If that’s not precisely the sort of …