Galician black metal unit, Dantalion, declare their ninth LP a comeback album, which is strange considering their last full-length record appeared as recently as 2021. The line-up remains the same…
Tag: black metal
“Washing machine metal” is a term invented for Marduk’s brand of black metal. Those of us who bought 1999’s Panzer Division Marduk in the days when a malevolent front cover…
Scream Blast Repeat enjoyed Nixil’s 2021 debut, All Knots Untied. We remarked that ‘Black metal is a crowded field, but Nixil find it easy to avoid cliché. Their music embraces…
Copse attracted the attention of Church Road Records after releasing their debut EP in 2020. Like many in the post-black metal genre, their aim is to take the cathartic rage…
US prog metal quintet, Vintersea, are one of the most stable bands in the scene. They evolved from Asterion, who released one EP in 2014 and then changed their name…
How did black metal become a high brow artform? To answer that, we must highlight its differences with old school death metal. Compare a photograph of Death in 1987 with…
Danish metal fiends, Panzerchrist, are one of the “could-have-been” bands that looked on course to spearhead their nation’s death metal scene with the release of 2003’s Roomservice and 2006’s Battalion…
Cheltenham-based gothic doom unit, Edenfall, looked to have disintegrated in 2016 with the loss of their irreplaceable drummer, Marcelo Teixeira. His return to the drum stool in 2019 put them…
London black metal unit, Calligram, piqued the interest of those in and outside the black metal community thanks to their hardcore-tinged debut, The Eye Is the First Circle. This 2020…