Lowered are a blackened doom band from the US and this is their debut album.
Lowered play black/sludge/doom metal with skill, talent, and no small amount of grim mood. Continue reading “Lowered – Lowered (Review)”
Lowered are a blackened doom band from the US and this is their debut album.
Lowered play black/sludge/doom metal with skill, talent, and no small amount of grim mood. Continue reading “Lowered – Lowered (Review)”
My Deathbed is a one man depressive black metal band from Greece. This is his second album.
Opening with a 24-minute monster of a track, My Deathbed offers us 51 minutes of bleak, depressive black metal. Continue reading “My Deathbed – My Deathbed (Review)”
Entropy Created Consciousness is a one man black metal band and this is his debut album.
This is obscure, underground black metal of the rarest variety. Individual and self-styled, it’s like Impressions of the Morning Star has been formed in a void of its own making, keeping itself apart from anything ostensibly similar to ensure its own dark purity. Continue reading “Entropy Created Consciousness – Impressions of the Morning Star (Review)”
Nòtt is a one man atmospheric black metal band from the US and this is his debut release.
The man behind Nòtt is also a member of the impressive Amiensus, and this first release is full of icy blackened darkness. Continue reading “Nòtt – Nòtt (Review)”
Verheerer are a German black metal band and this is their debut album.
Here we have 49 minutes of black metal that’s both obscure and creative. Continue reading “Verheerer – Maltrér (Review)”
Profane Burial are an orchestral/symphonic black metal band from Norway and this is their debut album.
There’s a lot of music out there in the world, and sometimes you have to decide just how you’re going to filter through it all and give something a listen. Sometimes this can be tricky work, but not in the case of Profane Burial. I knew I had to listen to this due to the presence of Continue reading “Profane Burial – The Rosewater Park Legend (Review)”
Har are a black metal band from Israel and this is their latest EP.
Containing 18 minutes of the foulest black magicks, this EP is not for the weak of constitution. Har create black metal that’s threatening and malevolent. Continue reading “Har – Visitation (Review)”
Byyrth are a US black metal band and this is their second album.
This is some really nasty stuff. Here we have 27 minutes of raw black metal that goes straight for the jugular and JUST DOESN’T STOP. Continue reading “Byyrth – Echoes from the Seven Caves of Blood (Review)”
Crawl play blackened doom, and Leviathan play black metal. Both are solo artists from the US and have got together to birth this hideous, reeking mass of unpleasantness.
This split lasts 24 minutes, with each artist contributing a single track lasting 12 minutes exactly. Continue reading “Crawl/Leviathan – Split (Review)”
Horizon Ablaze are a Norwegian progressive black/extreme metal band and this is their third album.
Horizon Ablaze play a brand of extreme metal that largely consists of atmospheric/progressive/avant-garde black metal, (among other things). It’s an impressive and well-delivered proposition, that’s for sure. Continue reading “Horizon Ablaze – The Weight of a Thousand Suns (Review)”