Tag: Black
Wolves In The Throne Room – Crypts Of Ancestral Knowledge Review
Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth, I reluctantly accept that the twenty minutes of music Wolves in the Throne Room recorded for this EP is likely all we’ll have heard from …
Solipnosis – Síntesis Silenciosa Review
[Artwork by Trueno de Hera] You are bewitched! – Candlemass It has been a good number of years since an album really made my skin crawl. Not just give me goosebumps mind you, but make …
Bekor Qilish – The Flesh Of A New God Review
If you’ve ever spent time talking with someone about music that is progressive or highly technical, there’s a good chance you’ve had an interaction like this: [You]: Hey, have you heard the new album from …
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle Review
[Artwork by Linda “Forestrolli” Piekäinen] As some of you may know, I spent the better part of the entire summer listening to little else than power metal in preparation for The Top Power Metal Albums …
Hexvessel – Polar Veil Review
In the pantheon of “ways to reveal oneself as ill-qualified to tell strangers how to feel about the latest Hexvessel album,” telling you that I last checked in on the band at the time of …
Demoniac – Nube Negra Review
Language is a key to the way we think. After all, fluency is more than being able to simply translate and recite, it’s only truly achieved when one begins thinking in that language. It can, …
Fleshvessel – Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed Review
[Cover art by Carlos Agraz] I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but life is A LOT, friends. Beyond your own dealings with career and family and social scenes and whatever else you might have going …
Porta Nigra – Weltende Review
[Cover art: Aufruhr (1899) by Käthe Kollwitz] Anyone who has traversed the gates of black metal understands how powerfully it pulls from the past. It’s so often a necrotic art, breathing dark romanticism into corpses …