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
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Tag Archives: Old-School Black Metal
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
Corpus Christii – Delusion (Review)
Corpus Christii are a Portuguese black metal band and this is their eighth album.
This is grim, occult black metal, forged from an old-school perspective and unleashed on the world with fire and venom. Continue reading
Barathrum – Fanatiko (Review)
Barathrum are a Finnish black metal band and this is their ninth album.
This is old-school black metal with plenty of groovy mid-paced sections that drip filth everywhere and generally make a mess all over everything they touch. Continue reading
Craven Idol – The Shackles of Mammon (Review)
This is Craven Idol’s second album. They are a black metal band from the UK.
2013’s Towards Eschaton made an impression on me, and I still return to it now and then for a fix of ugly blackened worship.
Craven Idol play black metal forged in the fires of Continue reading
Mordant – Demonic Satanic (Review)
This is the third album from Swedish black/death metallers Mordant.
Mordant play a hybrid black/death style that takes influence from the Swedish melodic scene. Continue reading
