Lake of Blood – Heed the Primal Calling (2008)
Recently another bizarre black metal movement has managed to pique my interest. In an extreme ideological contrast to my last music related post which…
Reviews
Hammemit – Nature Mystic (2009)
“To shed the boring accepted realities that suffocate the majority and embrace or confront what lies beyond… I always had the sense of seeing…
Gnaw – This Face (2009)
The product of misanthropic convergence, Gnaw hate you. Crunching blackened doom spirals out of a stinking, noisy miasma: he’s screaming at you. Uncompromising dissonant…
Yoga – Megafauna (2009)
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BlazeBirth Hall: Forest – As a Song in the Harvest of Grief (1999) & Branikald – Rdjandalir (1996)
NSBM. That’s ‘National Socialist Black Metal’ for the uninitiated. I have no doubt that such a concept would have made a few of you…
Mgła – Presence (2006) (…like diamonds in the shit of smugglers)
Black Metal is a genre long stigmatized for its quantity over quality approach, ‘grim-to-the-point-of-stupidity’ attempts at atmosphere and lo-fi production masking the oft proved…
The Endless Blockade/Hatred Surge – Split (2007)
Genuinely one of my favourite records, this split LP on Schizophrenic Records features two of the best bands doing hard/fat/loud music right now, and…