This is the third album from Swedish black metal solo act Kvaen.
The name Kvaen hit the black metal underground hard with 2020’s The Funeral Pyre, and then followed this up in 2022 with The Great Below, which showed that the quality of the debut was no fluke. Another two years have passed, and now we have The Formless Fires. Do the 39 minutes of new music here still demonstrate a continuation of these quality levels? Continue reading “Kvaen – The Formless Fires (Review)”
This is the second album from Swedish black metal solo act Kvaen.
I really enjoyed 2020’s The Funeral Pyre, but never had a chance to give it a proper review, so I jumped on The Great Below as soon as it appeared. As I suspected, this is not one to miss. Continue reading “Kvaen – The Great Below (Review)”
Enslaved are a Norwegian black metal band and this is their fifteenth album.
A new Enslaved release is a thing to be celebrated, and Utgard is no different in this regard. The follow up to 2017’s E, Utgard is actually quite different in many other regards, however. Continue reading “Enslaved – Utgard (Review)”
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