Tag: Black
The Eye – Supremacy (Reissue) Review
If you’re worried that it’s been almost six months since Vindsval gave us new Blut Aus Nord music, and you fear that a sudden gap in his inhuman rate of production will lead to some …
Rotting Christ – Kata Ton Daimona Tou Eaytoy Review
The past several albums from Greek metal OGs Rotting Christ have seen a really fascinating bifurcated progression – on the one hand, the band has introduced a wide variety of new instruments, sounds, and musical …
Acrimonious – Sunyata Review
Greece is not a great place to be right now. Unemployment is above 25%, and waves of austerity programs have produced corresponding waves of human misery. Given that context, I’m not sure whether a sprawling, …
Darkthrone – The Underground Resistance Review
Modern Darkthrone is really unlike anything else going on in metal today. Not the music exactly – the sources and content of that are relatively easy to deduce – but as an idea, it’s something …
Joel Grind – The Yellowgoat Sessions Review
So…what exactly are we supposed to call this thing? Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat? That makes it sound like the band broke up into two rival factions, with the Joel Grind’s Yellowgoat incarnation facing litigation from the …
Sulphur Aeon – Swallowed By The Ocean’s Tide Review
In the interest of full disclosure, it must be admitted that I can be quite susceptible to the seductions of great cover art. In the case of Germany’s Sulphur Aeon, the glorious art that adorns …
Saille – Ritu Review
As a style, symphonic black metal is generally theatrical, grandiose, and (without necessarily implying fault) often quite pompous. It isn’t exactly a sub-genre known for scaling it back. That made Irreversible Decay, the debut from …
Atriarch – Ritual Of Passing Review
Portland’s harrowing, blackened, gloomy deathrock outfit Atriarch announced itself quite suddenly with 2011’s debut Forever the End. As good as that first album was, though, it finds itself happily eclipsed in all respects by the …