Gaerea are a Portuguese black metal band and this is their debut album.
On Unsettling Whispers Gaerea have crafted 42 minutes of black metal that’s distinctly non-standard and in many ways is quite…unsettling. Continue reading “Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers (Review)”
Vyre are a German post-black metal band and this is their third album.
Vyre offer up a 52-minute sophisticated cocktail of electronically enhanced avant-garde/post-black metal, which has been further spiked with keyboards, synths, cello, and violin. Continue reading “Vyre – Weltformel (Review)”
This is the second album from French black metallers Abduction.
I liked Une Ombre Régit les Ombres a lot, so now that the band have returned with album number two, it’s time to get reacquainted with their characterful brand of black metal. Continue reading “Abduction – A l’Heure du Crépuscule (Review)”
Møl are a post-black metal band from Denmark and this is their debut album.
This is 42 minutes of atmospheric and emotive blackgaze. Taking a base of sharp, modern black metal and incorporating into it an obvious love of shoegaze’s ethereal intensity, Jord is a double-edged sword, promising both salvation and damnation. Continue reading “Møl – Jord (Review)”
Deadly Carnage are an Italian post-black metal band and this is their fourth album.
This is 45 minutes of creative metal, mixing black metal with doom, post-metal, and progressive influences. The band have produced an epic, exploratory journey across the cosmos, and do this via some expressive and emotive music. Continue reading “Deadly Carnage – Through the Void, Above the Suns (Review)”
This is the second album from Australia’s Atra Vetosus, a melodic/atmospheric black metal band.
While I enjoyed 2013’s Voices from the Eternal Night, it seems that Atra Vetosus have truly come of age on Apricity. On this latest album Atra Vetosus have expanded their melodic black metal sound to include elements of the atmospheric, depressive, and post-black metal styles, and they have done this very well indeed. Continue reading “Atra Vetosus – Apricity (Review)”
Moonaadem is a one man black metal band from Lebanon and this is his debut album.
Here we have 32 minutes of atmospheric black metal with ambient touches. It’s an impressive debut. I can’t help but feel it’s probably destined for undeserved obscurity, sadly, but is definitely worth seeking out due to how good it is. Continue reading “Moonaadem – Moonaadem (Review)”
Seventh Genocide are an Italian post-black metal band and this is their second album.
Now this is quite the ambitious and expansive work. 59 minutes of post-black metal, delivered with passion and no small amount of skill. Continue reading “Seventh Genocide – Toward Akina (Review)”
Novaria are an atmospheric metal band from the Netherlands and this is their debut EP.
This is an interesting and enjoyable mix of progressive, atmospheric, and post-metal. These are only starting points, however, as Novaria mix a lot of different things together on EP1. Continue reading “Novaria – EP1 (Review)”
This is the fourth album from Austrian post-black metallers Harakiri for the Sky.
Well, it only seems like yesterday since we were graced with Harakiri for the Sky’s third album III: Trauma, which was unveiled in 2016. This album was somewhat of a slow-burning sleeper hit for me; I Continue reading “Harakiri for the Sky – Arson (Review)”
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