This is the debut album from White Ward, a Ukrainian post-black metal band.
This is post-black metal with avant-garde tendencies. However, this is a very simplistic description of what you’ll find on Futility Report; the music is anything but simple.
Mix Ihsahn, Ulver, Ephel Duath, Blut Aus Nord, Deafheaven, and Wolves in the Throne Room together, and you’ll still only have the barest glimpse of what White Ward play. Continue reading “White Ward – Futility Report (Review)”
This is the debut album from Polish post-black metallers Rosk.
Rosk play post-black metal with atmospheric, doom, and ambient influences. Continue reading “Rosk – Miasma (Review)”
Mountains Crave are a UK black metal band and this is their debut album.
This is black metal that skilfully builds progressive, atmospheric, and post-metal elements into its construction. Continue reading “Mountains Crave – As We Were When We Were Not (Review)”
This is the debut album from one-man French black metal band Time Lurker.
Time Lurker is atmospheric black metal that’s sophisticated and thoughtful.
Elements of modern, depressive and post-black metal can be heard in places, enhancing and widening the scope of Time Lurker’s atmospherically blackened base. Continue reading “Time Lurker – Time Lurker (Review)”
This is the debut album from US black/speed metal band Bewitcher.
This is some heady old-school stuff. Mixing thrash, speed, heavy, and first-wave black metal influences into its delivery, this album is designed to get you headbanging. Continue reading “Bewitcher – Bewitcher (Review)”
Hailing from the Netherlands, this is a one-man black metal project. This is his fourth album.
A Hollow Path contains 42 minutes of raging blackened nastiness, all tied together with some extra death/thrash metal influences. Continue reading “Abomnium – A Hollow Path (Review)”
Thieves are a US hardcore band and this is their debut album.
Thieves play dark, violent hardcore. I can’t help but like this kind of relentlessly bleak and abrasive music. Over the course Continue reading “Thieves – LP I (Review)”
Axioma are a post-black metal band from the US and this is their debut EP.
Featuring a member of Keelhaul and Brain Tentacles, I had high hopes for this release, partially based on this, and partially for the description of what Opia sounded like. I haven’t been disappointed. Continue reading “Axioma – Opia (Review)”
This is the debut album from Haze of Summer, a Russian black metal project.
Essentially a one-man band fleshed out with guests acting as session musicians, Znoi is a little over half an hour of melodic/post-black metal that takes influence from the bright, modern approach to the style as championed Continue reading “Haze of Summer – Znoi (Review)”
This is the second album by Hladomrak, a Swedish black metal band.
The band’s 2013 debut album was an enjoyable slab of cold-as-ice black metal that used melody well in its dark, frozen approach to the blackened style. Continue reading “Hladomrak – Arctic Hysteria (Review)”
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