Hailing from New England comes Ktaadn, an atmospheric black metal band with folk influences and as described on their Bandcamp page they’re ‘dedicated to the natural beauty and history of its homeland, New England, and the preservation of the ancient ways of our European ancestors.’ The unique fusion of European paganism and the natural beauty…
Month: September 2021
Vide – Death Roll
Coming out of the decrepit swamps of Louisiana, Vide,presents us with their second full length LP, Death Roll. This is a chaotic and dense album filled with twisted riffs, gloomy atmosphere and hazy synths that tie it all together. While yes it does fall into many of the same trappings of other ‘lo-fi’ black metal…
StumpTail – Goat Rodeo Sacrifice: The Sound of Summer
Coming from the prolific and chthonic Moonlight Cypress Archetypes comes StumpTail a demented fusion of Southern rock, doom, country, and black metal. Now, they may sound like a strange fusion, but these guys are able to create something incredibly unique and stands out among the rest of the label’s releases, despite it having many similarities…
Serpent Of The Abyss — Wrapped in Darkness
Spawning from the underground Serpent of The Abyssis a band that came out of no where releasing their album Wrapped in Darkness a wicked, raw, and very atmospheric, this album has very unique qualities with creative guitar riffs that seem almost medieval at times while still sounding incredibly raw and abrasive. While there’s only three…
Feretral – The temple ov Feretral
Hailing form the Brazilian underground Feretralpulls their latest release from the sewers of hell The Temple Ov Feretral. This is a thrashy, black metal album with some death metal elements thrown in for good measure. Its raw, gritty, and filled with plenty of headbangable moments. There’s a lot of tracks off this album, seventeen of…
Alghol – The Osseous Key
Hailing from Portland, Maine, the one man band Alghol presents us with his first offering, The Osseous Keya leap forward coming off of the back of his previous demo release Forgotten Paths. This debut album is very much in vein of the 90s style black metal, filled with raw melodic riffs, mystical synths, and an…
VØLUS – Festering Anti-Cosmic Wound
Vølus is a one man blackened death metal act hailing from South Carolina. The sole member, Justin Vølus, presents us with this first unholy offering titled Festering Anti-Cosmic Wound a torturous and gnarly twenty-seven minutes. Somewhere in between Portal‘s Lovecraftian themes and Cattle Decapitation’s more grindier tendencies, its a very brutal and oppressive mixture of…
गौतम बुद्ध – पुनर्जन्म भाग १
Its not often I hear of bands coming from the east, Kushinagar, India in particular, which is rather fascinating seeing as how that is a rather popular pilgrimage site for Buddhists. So when I saw this band cross my feed I was highly interested, the blood red cover featuring a statue of Buddha on it…
Canid – Saint Serpentine
Crawling forth from the US underground scene Canidpresents us with their third release after a four year hiatus titled Saint Serpentine. This is a cryptic, obscured and raw sounding black metal album that approaches you in a slow almost doom like pace. When looking back on the duo’s previous releases, it keeps many of the…
Lotus of Darkness – Sompas-Naga
Hailing from the eastern underground Lotus of Darknessis the only black metal band I am aware of hailing from Thailand of all places. Their cultural roots show within their second release, Sompas-Naga,a mournful album deep in the black metal tradition. Though their folk roots flare, with eastern style guitars that are present all through out….