“Urn” is the latest album by the German death dealers CASKET. If you’re even faintly familiar with CASKET and what they’ve released in the past, you know even without listening to the new album that 1) this album’s rhythm will bring buildings down and 2) this is a band to experience live! CASKET has been […]
GOLOD is a project hailing from Canada and active since the fall of 2019. The first official release “…To Be Lost And Forgotten In Solitude” now sees the light of day. The opening track, ‘The Lone Spire’, is slow and depressed (suicidal) Black Metal, reminding me of older FORGOTTEN TOMB. The production is kept pretty […]
The Dutch KWADE DROES is a band in the roster of Ván Records that always flies under the radar, including mine. And their recent album “Met Onoprechte Deelneming” is a good proof why it is that way. The interpretation of Black Metal from KWADE DROES surely will not appeal to any fan of the genre, […]
This debut album from the Australian one man band THE HARVEST MOON, which is a sideproject from Jamie Freeman, who usually roams on vocals and drums in VARGROND, is a sneaky little treat. Modern Black Metal, very atmospheric and gripping, not always that dark, but always melancholic and longing. The shift between the darker and […]
In fact, it is a clown on the cover. Pretty unusual, at least for me. Not that clowns and Heavy Metal are mutually exclusive, but for a band that locates itself in Post Black Metal / Funeral Doom it is quite strange. But otherwise the music on this EP is far away from usual schemata, […]
MORIBUND OBLIVION is not a household name in the Black Metal scene. Yet “Endless” is already the seventh album from the Turkish trio that is around since 1999. But all of their previous releases were put out through small labels, thus it is no wonder that MORIBUND OBLIVION remained in the underground. And I don’t […]
“Aïn’t No Saïnt” is the new album of Austrian band EWÏG FROST. The logo to me seems like a fusion between MOTÖRHEAD and CORONER and also the amalgam of sounds that they mix in their songs ranges from extreme or fast Metal to Rock. This is the fourth album of their career that began in […]
“Yūrei” is the first album by ECLIPSUS, a solo Atmospheric / Depressive Black Metal project based in the USA. This album follows the steps of entropy through an individual’s path to suicide in the Japanese Forest of Aokigahara. If we can take a diversion for a moment, Aokigahara is a forest in Japan, it is […]
Let’s just get this out of the way. URFAUST are a weird fucking band. And not weird as in necessarily experimental. Just… weird in general. The music doesn’t follow the normal patterns of Black Metal. The vocals don’t follow any patterns at all. Sometimes it’s even a tough listen. And yet… they’re damn likeable in […]
“The Greater Evil” is the fourth album by the band from Basel, Switzerland. COLD CELL was founded in 2012 and hopefully this album will be their breakthrough. The label Les Acteurs De L’Ombre Productions is an established label and nearly all releases are quality ones and I would go almost as far as to say […]