This is the debut album from Taubrą, a Swiss/Norwegian black metal band.
Featuring members of Aara, Forgotten Tomb, Modern Rites, Porta Nigra, and Thron, Therizo contains 41 minutes of old-school black metal. Think of a combination of influences from acts such as Mayhem, Immortal, Behexen, Tsjuder, Marduk, and Gorgoroth, and you’ll be on the right lines. Continue reading “Taubrą – Therizo (Review)”
This is the fourth album from Body Void, a doom band from the US.
Body Void are a great band, let’s just get that out of the way first, before we do anything else. As such, this review primarily exists to let you know just how great Atrocity Void is, because what would be the point otherwise? I mean, could Body Void have finally released a stinker? Continue reading “Body Void – Atrocity Machine (Review)”
This is the second album from Polish black metallers Mānbryne.
I enjoyed 2021’s Heilsweg: O Udręce Ciała I Tułaczce Duszy, so was eager to check out its follow up. Interregnum: O Próbie Wiary i Jarzmie Zwątpienia contains 40 minutes of new material. Back with a new drummer, (also in Blaze of Perdition), Mānbryne sound better than ever. Continue reading “Mānbryne – Interregnum: O Próbie Wiary i Jarzmie Zwątpienia (Review)”
Sulphur Aeon are a German death metal band and this is their fourth album.
Long after 2015’s Gateway to the Antisphere and 2018’s The Scythe of Cosmic Chaos shook the death metal underworld, Sulphur Aeon returns to sow chaos and discord once again. A great slumbering monster awakens. Continue reading “Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns and Seven Seals (Review)”
This is the ninth album from US black metal band Krieg.
Ruiner contains 40 minutes of black metal that’s dark, melancholic, and full of venomous aggression. Continue reading “Krieg – Ruiner (Review)”
This is the third album from Ὁπλίτης, (otherwise known as Hoplites), a solo post-black metal band from China.
The artist behind Ὁπλίτης has had a busy year. This is the third album from this project alone, (following on from Ψευδομένη and Τρωθησομένη), never mind other extracurricular activities such as the Vitriolic Sage record. With such a withering rate of output, has Ἀντιτιμωρουμένη seen the quality levels of Ὁπλίτης dip? Continue reading “Ὁπλίτης (Hoplites) – Ἀντιτιμωρουμένη (Review)”
This is the fourth album from one-man French black metal band Sühnopfer.
This is the third release I’ve covered from Sühnopfer, (the other two being 2014’s Offertoire and 2019’s Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes), so it’s welcome to hear more from this artist. Across 55 minutes of new material, (which includes a black metal interpretation of a song from 1968 by Michel Polnareff), Nous Sommes d’Hier impresses with its compelling take on the melodic blackened style. Continue reading “Sühnopfer – Nous Sommes d’Hier (Review)”
This is the second album from US metallic hardcore band Capra.
I enjoyed 2021’s In Transmission, and now it’s time to check out what Errors has to offer. Is its title a warning against its content? Continue reading “Capra – Errors (Review)”
Morag Tong are a UK doom band, and this is their second album.
This 42-minute release is the follow up to 2018’s Last Knell of Om. Containing four tracks, including one that takes up almost half of the running time, Morag Tong have been busy in the years since their first album, and boy does it show. Continue reading “Morag Tong – Grieve (Review)”
Furia are a black metal band from Poland and this is their sixth album.
I haven’t reviewed a Furia release before, so this offers a well-overdue chance to rectify this unfortunate situation, and cast a critical eye over what this idiosyncratic band are up to in 2023. Over time Furia have only gotten more individual and experimental, so what does Huta Luna have to offer discerning black metal fans? Continue reading “Furia – Huta Luna (Review)”
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