Hailing from Ukrainian underground comes Lacrimorphosis, an introspective and fantasy driven dungeon Synth act with a cozy yet mystical atmosphere conjured in his first three releases. After dipping his toes in the black metal world with the single Frigid Terror, Lacrimorphosis continues down that path conjuring depressive and cold black metal. With their latest release,…
Strixskog returns with their latest EP, Through the Raging Seas. Stepping away from the pure black metal sound, they’re able to conjure up triumphant and uplifting images with their skillfully laid out guitars, impressive drumming, and at times, rather melodramatic vocals. Its somewhat of a continuation of their last release, The Hell We Have Chosen,…
Hailing from the Kentucky underground crawls forth Sinistrum, a foreboding and hellish death metal act presenting us a textbook death metal release. These guys hit the check list at all levels. Evil, heavy, and chugging dissonant riffs, guttural and ghoulish vocals, brain blasting drums, and satanically gory lyrics that encapsulates the death metal essence. After…
Pushing forth from the underground come Hell Jefe y Hell Guapo joining forces to create the hellishy deviant “Goddamn Gringos”. these hellions are bringing back the timelessly sound of the first wave of black metal that is often looked over in today’s second wave worship. Aggressive, thrashy drums, melodicly hellish riffs and plenty of guttural…
Deep within the forests the wolves gather to the call of the Lycanthropic Throne and their debut release Forest of the Ancient Warspirit. Calling upon the old sounds of 90s Polish and German black metal, Lycanthropic Throne are able to take this rather timeless sound and reforge it with their raw and sadistic intentions. This…
Returning with their second satanic assault comes Warcoe creating A Palce for Demons. This Italian doom trio have been keeping the very pure essence of heavy metal alive, creating nostalgic riffs of that akin to Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and Pagan Altar. Its refreshing hearing this old style brought back fresh again in a new modern…
Coming from the prolific Paris black metal underground comes the debut album of Fleckentarn, a noisy and blackened punk romp of an album. Chugging out simplistic raw punk riffs and a steady oi beat, this is a mind numbing yet deep album that creates a heavily emotional atmosphere that took me a few listens to…
This is a compilation of tracks from a very passionate US black metal project known as Malacath, a volume of all of the single releases. A mixture of raw depressive black metal and mysterious and elegant dungeon synth, there’s a lot of passion and vigor behind the project and its truly on display in these…
Hailing from a rather unlikely place for such cold black metal, Cuba, comes Narbeleth. Forming back in 2008, this is their 6th full length album release titled A Pale Crown. Continuing from their previous release Svmma Cvm Nox Arcana, they’ve continued down the path of the traditional Norwegian second wave, creating a cold harsh sound…
Hailing from the dark forests of the great British Isle comes Wulvyr and their first full length release Moon.Malice.Heresy, a tragically triumphant black metal assault. This is a strong continuation of the previous two demo release, combining chaotic elements of frantically tremolo picked guitars, raw and harsh production and painfully piercing vocals. The masked figure…