Back in 2008, NARBELETH from Havana came into existence as a solo project by Luis Hernández Casal (a.k.a Dakkar) and over the years it evolved into one of the defining Black Metal bands of Cuba’s defiant underground scene. Forming in such a politically tumultuous, isolated country wasn’t surely easy as access to outside influences and […]
LA MER is French for “The Sea” and is a solo project based out of Glasgow, Scotland. It is a semi-experimental, fully focussed atmospheric Black Metal vision of Jeremi who is responsible for all the sound you hear on the record. “Tetrahedra” is an interesting electro industrial atmospheric Black Metal record, I understand why the […]
MORBID SACRIFICE hail from Italy, but they could easily be a late ’80s Death Metal band from Brazil. This is the primitive Black / Death Metal sound that I absolutely love. Raw to the core, obeying no boundaries, meandering through the mortal gaze, MORBID SACRIFICE bulldoze through your senses and keep the flame of raw […]
THREE EYES OF THE VOID is a Ukrainian band now based in Gdansk, Poland. “The Atheist” is their first full-length and provided to us kindly by Folter Records. The sound is uncomplicated, it is straight through Post Black Metal which is something I can appreciate but I don’t seek it out on its own. Having […]
“Ultra Violence” is WOLVES OF PERDITION’s sophomore album following their 2021 debut. After the first listen, I can’t think of a better title for this release. It is violent, rabid and ferocious. There are obvious influences in their music, but they have managed to come up with an album that hits you constantly and relentlessly […]
“Inn Of The Vaticide” is the debut full-length album from US-based blackened Death Metal group BLACK EUCHARIST, delivering eight tracks of savage Christ-crushing Metal rife with maniacal riffing and pummeling drums. Initially released in June of 2023 by Stygian Black Hand on digital, cassette and vinyl formats, the most recent CD pressing was completed by […]
Upon looking over some preliminary info to get familiar with the band, I checked out the latest release “Druga Fala”, the album artwork (amazing, by the way) and saw pictures of the band and their image. I was thinking, oh okay, a band that’s going to be sounding like MGLA or maybe GAEREA. Well, I […]
Within the realm of Black Metal, there exist several bands that, in addition to their musical virtues, the quality of their compositions, and the sound excellence of their recordings, possess the ability to convey the essence of Black Metal. CULTUM INTERITUM is one of those bands that radiates darkness and gloomy atmospheres in each of […]
Maybe someone still remembers the US based Heavy Metal outfit OVERLODE. They released an self-titled EP back in 1987, which earned some attention. Then there was a longer pause, but by the time of their debut “Return Of The Snow Giant” in 2004 and their appearance at the Keep It True festival one year later, […]
Holy smoke! That opening track ‘The Eternal Oath’ is one of the best openings I have heard for years. Bombastic choirs, majestic riffs and some kind of spoken word passage, not too short, but not too long either. What the band from Cyprus set off in the first almost four minutes of their debut is […]