This is the debut album from Argentinian black metal band Enoquian.
Llamas de Gloria Primera contains 39 minutes of enjoyably raw second wave-influenced black metal. Continue reading
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Tag Archives: Old-School Black Metal
Profane Burial – The Rosewater Park Legend (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
Mork – Eremittens Dal (Review)
Mork is a one-man Norwegian black metal band and this is his third album.
Here we have 48 minutes of old-school, Darkthrone-influenced black metal. It’s cold, full of icy groove, and immediately hits the spot. Continue reading
Asagraum – Potestas Magicum Diaboli (Review)
Asagraum are a black metal band from the Netherlands/Norway and this is their debut album.
This is largely old-school Satanic black metal, firmly influenced by the 90s Scandinavian second wave style, but not without its own merits or character. Continue reading
Karne – Symposium of Torments (Review)
This is the second album from French black metallers Karne.
2014’s Faith in Flesh saw Karne nail their colours to the mast with their brand of high-speed black metal that had melodic bite and grim determination. Continue reading
Poison Blood – Poison Blood (Review)
Poison Blood are a US black metal band and this is their debut EP.
Consisting of members of Horseback and Krieg, this is 19 minutes of old-school darkness. Continue reading
Narbeleth – Indomitvs (Review)
Narbeleth is a Cuban one-man black metal band and this is his fourth album.
I’ve been willingly following Narbeleth’s work for a few years now, starting with 2014’s A Hatred Manifesto and then with 2015’s Through Blackness, and Remote Places. There’s just something so pleasingly atavistic, raw, Continue reading
Rasha’im – The Horns of Euthyphro (Review)
Rasha’im are a black metal band from the US and this is their debut album.
Here we have over 65 minutes of traditional, raw, underground black metal, with frosted riffs and grim melodies. Continue reading
Devourer – Across the Empty Plains (Review)
Devourer are a black metal band from Sweden and this is their second album.
With an album cover that screams old-school death metal to me, this is actually equally old-school black metal, raw and cold. Continue reading
Ordem Satânica – Monte da Lua (Review)
This is the debut album from this Portuguese black metal band.
We’ve met this band before with 2016’s Ventos de Ódio, which made me hungry for more. Monte da Lua is here to satiate that hunger. Continue reading
