Tag: Black
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness Review
The city of New Orleans was founded by the French in the early 18th Century, and it has a long history of French-influenced culture in its food, music, and architecture. From the perspective of a metal …
W.A.I.L. – Wisdom Through Agony Into Illumination And Lunacy Review
In October of 2009, a mysterious outfit from Kristiinankaupunki, Finland, released a vinyl-only LP of its only full length to date, Wisdom through Agony into Illumination and Lunacy. Fans of Finnish doom and black metal …
Atriarch – Forever The End Review
Forever the End is a superbly-realized first effort from Portland, Oregon’s Atriarch. Summoning a thick, melancholy doom metal that drinks deeply from the wells of black metal and ‘proper’ gothic rock (think Bauhaus, not corsets), …
Caïna – Hands That Pluck Review
By the time Andrew Curtis-Brignell started Caïna in 2004, one-man black metal projects had already earned themselves a sterling reputation – fairly, in many cases – for laughably rudimentary songwriting, glass-shards-being-flushed-down-a-toilet production, and all-around foolishness. …
Sorgeldom – …From Outer Intelligences Review
Preamble transcendental – [tran-sen-den-tl,-suhn-] adjective 1. transcending, surpassing, or superior. 2. being beyond ordinary or common experience, thought, or belief; supernatural. 3. abstract or metaphysical. 4. idealistic, lofty, or extravagant. black metal – [blak met-l] …
Hot Graves – Desecration Time Review
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Desecration Time is a three-track 7″ (…or digital download, which, in this case, seems a like a more frugal investment for the curious) from fuschia-loving genre-whores Hot Graves. This Floridian …
Avichi – The Devil’s Fractal Review
At what point is black metal too nice? Orthodox black metal basically begs this question every time it rears its ever-so-serious head. The paradoxical beauty of much of this movement of the past half-decade or …
Benighted in Sodom – Reverse Baptism Review
Not long ago one of my esteemed colleagues (that would be His Royal Danhammer of House Obstkrieg, First of His Name) reviewed an album that he could honestly recognize the quality of, but just couldn’t …