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…
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Mortiis last issued an album in January 2020 before the world went into a global quarantine, and that was a reworking of his 1994 debut under the title, Spirit of…
We’re in the sixth year of this decade, and Darkthrone are already releasing their fourth LP of the 2020s. Their output is admirable, but are there any surprises in store…
“Anti-fascism, environmentalism, queer rights and Palestinian liberation are among the political struggles addressed throughout the album,” says the press release for Rosa Faenskap’s sophomore LP. Many will roll their eyes…
‘The magnificent range of colours and disciplined attachment to the muscular guitars of metal have set a high standard for Part 2,’ said Scream Blast Repeat last year of Green…
Norwegian unit, Slagmaur, seldom appear in conversations about contemporary black metal. Hulders Ritual is the fourth album of the career since they issued their debut in 2007, yet it could…
Norwegian-based musician, Roman, hails from Russia but relocated to black metal’s homeland in the late 2000s. Since 2019, Bizarrekult has been his main vehicle of expression, resulting in an EP…
Mayhem have a strong consensus for the best black metal album of all time. Everybody should know 1994’s De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, but everybody should be willing to look beyond…
Norwegian collective, Course of Fate, remember a time when heavy metal was epic and empowering, and that includes the progressive metal of Savatage and the early Dream Theater records. Yet…