‘Godslastering has the making of a cult record and will increase the clamour to find out the identity of the woman who composed it. If this doesn’t intrigue your taste…
Tag: black metal
Lord Belial would be firm favourites if the critics invented a prize for Sweden’s most underrated metal band. You can still hear their influence on some of the more obscure…
Bekmørk’s debut LP secured a place in Antichrist Magazine’s top 50 black metal albums of 2019. They inform us that their new release is meaner, heavier, and more disturbing. Can…
Lars ‘Lazare’ Nedland formed Black Void as the counterpart to his melodic hard rock band, White Void. You’ll already know him as a founder member of avant-garde black metal legends,…
French visionaries, Blut Aus Nord, are an icon of black metal and one of the most innovative artists in dark experimental music. Who can deny the extreme metal brilliance of…
Dane Cross caused a stir in 2017 when he released the self-titled Sacred Son album with a smiling photograph of himself on the cover. Black metal puritans baulked. How could…
The Scottish metal scene is a thriving metropolis for artists north of the English border and even attracts funding from the National Lottery through its sister agency, Creative Scotland. One…
As a band approaching only their seventh album in twenty-four years, Swedish black metal favourites, Watain, know how to keep you waiting. Many of you will delight at the prospect…
Dutch quintet, Terzij de Horde, refuse to be pigeonholed into any genre, although they can claim to be a bellwether for contemporary Dutch black metal. Formed in 2010, the band…