A heinous and Vile Ritual is being conjured within the underground here in the US. This one man maniac has brought upon us their debut album Caverns of Occultic Hatred. This is some powerful blackened death metal with dissonant riffs, brutal vocals, and an occult approach that creates a daunting atmosphere that overwhelms the listener…
Hailing from my home town of Miami, FL, comesthe debut EP of Ejecutador a blackend thrash metal assault that’s just about as hot as the weather down here. With members of the legendary underground Caveman Cult and the incredibly crushing thrash/death metal occultists Charred coming together to create a primitive headbanging thrash assault that sounds…
The latest cultist joining the Kolkata Inner Order is Kaal Nagini presenting themselves with their latest EP Refracted Lights of a Blind God. This is a continuation of the coming assault from the Indian subcontinent, these hellish ghouls produce some crushingly devastating death metal that is continuing to carve away at the small but rapidly…
The infamous Kūka’ilimoku with a short demo, featuring his iconic raw black metal style that has become all but well known over the years. This demo almost feels like a fun throwaway, a quick and easy release that doesn’t change too far from the norm and just sorta bangs out those always catchy riffs. Jumping…
Returning after a two year hiatus, людоед, comes back with their fifth EP release titled, Monument of Human Cruelty. For those unfamiliar, they bring their own unique mixture of black metal and punk to create an all around groovy yet aggressive audial attack that goes straight to the throat. Compared to their last release Death…
Rising from the ashes of legendary black metal band Forgotten Woods comes Joyless forming back in 1996 with their debut album Unlimited Hate which even shared a few tracks from Forgotten Woods. To me, that wasn’t Joyless’ true debut,its with their second album, Wisdom & Arrogance does the band truly come to form. Having a…
Taking a sharp left turn from his iconic black metal sound, Tervaaja who’s the main brain behind Ruohtta brings us a unique and toe tapping goth rock album titled Juorni. The album is grim, taking a very nihilistic approach that is reminiscent of his black metal releases. While it would be easy to compare this…
With quite the impactful debut, hailing from the north of France comes Fardeaux, roughly translating to “burdens” in English, is a black metal duo who produce some rather creative music for the genre. Somewhere along the lines of Deathspell Omega, Andavald, and Dødsengel, this band is able to mold and bend the recognizable black metal…
A mysterious arrival from an equally mysterious act, Orthodox Impaler brings us their debut Pilgrimage of Hate and Mutilation. A pure and raw black metal release with cold production and an equally raw approach that harkens back to the olden days. While I can’t speak much of the band themselves, what they present is all…
Bringing us their debut demo, Mitternacht makes a blasphemous deceleration of war, presenting a solid textbook example of second wave black metal done flawlessly in the modern-age. While what is done here isn’t anything ground breaking or new, its refreshing to hear that the true cold soul of black metal still lingers around in this…