Tag: Black

Elitist – Fear In A Handful Of Dust Review

Elitist is a four-piece band from Portland, Oregon, but for all intents and purposes, you may as well just think of the band members as four spiky signposts pointing the quickest road to Hell. This

Marduk – Iron Dawn Review

Riding quite the wave of success since being joined on vocals a few albums ago by Mortuus of Funeral Mist fame, Marduk thought now was good a time as any to push out some new

Haeresiarchs Of Dis – In Obsecration Of The Seven Darks Review

originally written by Chris McDonald After such a massive, sprawling outing as last year’s Denunciatas Cinis, Haeresiarchs of Dis is taking a decidedly more compact approach with this follow-up effort. In Obsecration of the Seven

Tombs – Path Of Totality Review

Tombs’ second album stares the notion of a ‘sophomore slump’ straight in the face, politely clears its throat, and then sets said notion on fire using nothing but its will and an unlit match. But

Enslaved – The Sleeping Gods Review

originally written by Chris McDonald What a strange little release this is for Enslaved, a band that hasn’t officially released anything other than full-lengths or DVDs since their founding efforts in the early 90’s. Coming

Black Crucifixion – Hope Of Retaliation Review

originally written by Juho Mikkonen Hailing originally from Rovaniemi (the biggest town in Finnish Lapland, a safe-haven for some match-fixing Zambian soccer players and a nest for many other things that seem awfully out of

Ravencult – Morbid Blood Review

It’s easy to get wrapped up always searching for the new, the fresh, the strange twist on the old moves and forget why you came here in the first place. It’s equally easy to bury

J.W. Pozoj – Birth Of Pozoj Review

Birth of Pozoj is a curious album with a curious story by a very curiously-named band. Johann Wolfgang Pozoj (or J.W. Pozoj; or just JWP) is a Croatian act that plays an oft-spacious, sometimes aggressive, and