Groza released a video to “Asbest” of their latest album “Nadir”. The album has been released last week, with the variant vinyl versions being sold out in most places. There’s still the classic black vinyl version available, though. We’ll cover “Nadir” with a review soon; …
This one’s a fucking banger. Swedish duo Black Birch takes no prisoner during the twelve songs of their debut album “Black Birch”. Taking their bold statement Antifascist & Vegan into account, we’ll have one of the best black metal releases of 2024 at our fingertips, …
Swedish black metal veterans Mörk Gryning did take a few years off (between 2003 and 2017), but have been steadily releasing albums ever since. Their new record “Fasornas Tid” is set for a release in December. The band offers a first glimpse with “Tornet”, a …
Predictabillity offers comfort. This is true for every aspect of life, up to and including music. Peole figure out which genre they like and what kind of song, album, and music to expect. This holds true for individual artists as well – when you grab …
Darkthrone always deliver. It is not their strongest work, nor their weakest, but a strange monument to persistence and another reminder that the duo will always follow their own crooked path, even if it leads into the shadows of repetition.
Lethvm give the listener a daring, frostbitten experiment in atmosphere and aggression, a record that shifts between lurching doom, blackened edges, post-metal breadth, and occasional post-hardcore unrest. “Winterreise” doesn’t always land every twist, but many of its risks sing in the silent cold it carves …
Borknagar’s “Fal”l is a refinement, weaving frostbitten aggression with sweeping melody into something both immediate and vast. It balances raw power and reflective calm, proving that the band’s maturity sharpens rather than softens their edge.
Hauntologist offer with “Hollow” an album that rests between the dreamlike and the dissonant, a body of work more interested in atmospheres than in momentum. Built upon the collaboration of musicians with long roots in Poland’s extreme metal underground, the record is neither a straightforward …
Krieg’s return with “Ruiner” is both an affirmation and a revelation, the kind of record that could only come from decades of abrasion, collapse, and survival within American black metal. Since the mid-90s, Krieg has become a singular entity – too raw to be ignored, too …
