The latest EP by Amiensus – All Paths Lead to Death – has shown a stripped-back band, ready to savagely burn anyone near them with their red-hot display of blistering black metal. WIth some quality songwriting skills and plenty of venomous attitude, this is 29 minutes you don’t want to miss.
So, sit back, take All Paths Lead to Death for a spin and have a read of the below… Continue reading “Interview with Amiensus”
This is the debut album from Lvx Haeresis, a Swiss black metal band.
This is ritualistic, occult black metal that takes influence from such bands as Ondskapt, Schammasch, and Funeral Mist to craft music that takes the listener on a blackened journey to sights foul and unclean. Continue reading “Lvx Haeresis – Descensŭs Spīrĭtŭs (Review)”
Wells Valley are a Portuguese post-metal band and this is their latest EP.
This EP features two new songs and a Pink Floyd cover, and is the band’s follow up release to 2015’s very enjoyable Matter as Regent.
Continuing their theme of taking the standard Continue reading “Wells Valley – The Orphic (Review)”
This is the latest demo release from US black metallers Sovereign.
It’s hard not to be impressed with black metal that’s played as authentically and as passionately as this so obviously is. Continue reading “Sovereign – Spirit Warfare: Demo MMXVII (Review)”
The Noctambulant are a melodic black metal band form the US and this is their debut album.
Combining elements of the US and Swedish styles of fast, melodic black metal, Advocatus Diaboli is 46 minutes of scything, blistering music that quickly unfolds with attitude and its own dark light. Continue reading “The Noctambulant – Advocatus Diaboli (Review)”
Folie a Deux are a black metal band from Sweden and this is their debut album.
This is underground and nasty. The band’s style is somewhere between black and death metal, taking elements of both and barking rough growling shouts over the top of everything. Continue reading “Folie a Deux – Misanthropic Slaughter Cult (Review)”
This is the debut album from Ulsect, a death/black metal band from the Netherlands.
Ulsect specialise in technical/avant-garde/dissonant death metal, with heavy atmosphere and blackened aesthetics. Continue reading “Ulsect – Ulsect (Review)”
Promethean are a French symphonic blackened death metal band and this is their debut EP.
The cover of this alone was enough to pique my interest. You know what they say; come for the cover, stay for the music, right? Continue reading “Promethean – Aloades (Review)”
This is the latest EP from Torc, a black metal band from the Czech Republic.
Torc play black metal with a few other influences which can be heard in the songs. Continue reading “Torc – Vzpomínky na Slunce (Review)”
Dødsengel are a Norwegian black metal band and this is their fourth album.
Well, there’s a lot going on here. I very much enjoyed their split with Nightbringer, but it didn’t prepare me for this.
This is sophisticated black metal with a broad theatrical side when it comes to the vocals, almost like an occult ritualistic opera that aims to summon fell beings from the abyss. Continue reading “Dødsengel – Interequinox (Review)”
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