Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto (aka Ted Skjellum) is the quiet one in the band. Fenriz does all the press (with great reluctance) and often delivers his verdict on true and false…
Tag: blackened doom metal
Switzerland is where metal became an intellectual art form thanks to Celtic Frost. Its modern purveyors are just as keen to use the medium as a platform for expression. Three…
Hertfordshire sludge-noise quartet, Praetorian, hope you’ll grin at the ugliness of their music. ‘You’d not want to stumble underneath the belly of this white rhino on your next safari adventure.…
‘Descent is a monstrous reckoning with the abyss, stripped of the usual clichés, and ready to charge headlong into the void in the hope there is no afterlife,’ said Scream…
Ponte del Diavolo are a supergroup of artists from Italy’s black and death metal scene, mainly based in Piedmont. They started the band in 2020 as a jamming expedition with…
‘How do they manage to introduce an element of self-satisfied muscle-flexing in such an unforgiving and morbid headspace?’ asked Scream Blast Repeat in our review of Cult Burial’s 2021 Oblivion…
Johnny the Boy started as a jam between members of Crippled Black Phoenix during the downtime of a rehearsal. Justin Greaves (ex-Iron Monkey/Electric Wizard) picked up a guitar and started…
Evangelos Vasilakos composed one of the ugliest noise assaults of 2021 with the debut Chestcrush record, Vdelygmia. Now, the multi-instrumentalist has a new band to enhance his vision thanks to…
*** Go to our YouTube channel in the link below to see the video review of this record in episode #12 of the SBR Album of the Week. Darkthrone have…