Tag: Black
Leviathan – True Traitor, True Whore Review
originally written by Chris McDonald Since its birth as a musical style, many have endorsed and embraced metal as an escape from the rigors of everyday life as opposed to a reflection of it; an …
Sanguis Imperem – In Glory We March Towards Our Doom Review
To take Sanguis Imperem as straight-up death metal is a mistake. These Californians (also active as live backing for similarly-minded noiseniks Nocturnal Blood) clearly take their inspiration from that murky, ill-defined, yet fertile territory often …
Blut Aus Nord – 777: The Desanctification Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell It’s no secret that Blut Aus Nord has been on an absolute creative tear over the the past few years. After Odinist‘s baby steps, Memoria Vetusta IImarked a glorious emergence …
An Autumn For Crippled Children – Everything Review
Lost, the 2010 debut from Dutch act An Autumn for Crippled Children, was a pleasant surprise: a moody, expansive, atmospheric and dynamic album that threaded the line safely between depressive black metal, doomy dirges and …
Craft – Void Review
originally written by Chris McDonald I’ve always found Craft to be a good-not-great example of black metal’s less speedy side, although even that tenuous reputation was tested by 2005’s utterly bland outing, Fuck the Universe. …
Vintage Hallows – Witchery
Originally written by Jason Lawrence. For a few years in a row starting in the late 90’s, Witchery was unstoppable. Thrash was at a point where its legions of aging practitioners had yet to reunify en masse, …
Thy Catafalque – Rengeteg Review
About a year ago I was introduced to the 2009 offering by Hungary’s Thy Catafalque, Róka Hasa Rádió, an outstanding combination of black metal, post-everything-but-Ulver recklessness, prog structures and many of the freakish elements that …
Falloch – Where Distant Spirits Remain Review
Probably the last thing a new band dropping its debut album needs is a nagging clamor of snickering and hand-wringing from such an incessant bunch of dashing and affable sweethearts jerks as metal writers, but …