Less an album than a magical ceremony, Heilung’s Futha, released on Season of Mist, is an evocative work that speaks to the subconscious far more than...
The organisers of the Belgian black metal festival, Thronefest, may not invite or even encourage media attention, but they most definitely deserve it, putting on a...
A Throne of Ash (Season of Mist
Auric Gates of Veles, the latest album by Poland’s Hate for Metal Blade, delivers quality mid-tempo blackened death metal, with a focus on atmosphere and rhythm,...
The Suns of Perdition I: War, Horrid War completely redefines Panzerfaust as game-changers in contemporary black metal with an album that combines complimentary vocal duets and...
Combichrist deal with staples in the industrial thematic library, confronting inner demons, politics, nihilism and dystopia, in their signature electro/aggrotech/metal fusing of industrial rock on their...
Seemannsgarn (AFM Records), Tanzwut’s eleventh album in twenty years, follows a similar formula to the Neue Deutsche Härte-meets-metal-meets-medieval-meets-gothic recipe that has served them well in the...
With GastiR - Ghosts Invited (Season of Mist), Ghaals WYRD is breaking rules and stepping past what is currently termed “post black metal” to create something...
Cold Black Suns (Season of Mist) is an unforgettable piece of occult black metal art, fusing savagery with frozen beauty – but it is also a...
Fleshgod Apocalypse rewrite the definition of extreme metal on Veleno (Nuclear Blast Records), by taking all the historical aspects of their signature orchestral death metal sound...
Despite the fun ‘80s horror thematic concept and some excellent songwriting, Night of Whispering Souls (Extreme Metal Music) by Croatian one-man black metal project Tryglav, the...
Adversus, the seventh full-length album from Italy’s Handful of Hate combines fast, technical black metal with unexpected baroque flourishes to create a record of unique character...
We chatted with Jason Mann, Muhammad Zubi and David Devo Oosthuizen, promoters of South Africa’s The Kraken Is Alive about their narrative based music festival for...
An unmistakably Kampfar record, Ofidians Manifest (available from Indie Recordings) blends historic black metal tropes with contemporary care to composition and arrangement to craft one of...
Shem Ha Mephorash, the fourth full-length from Sweden’s Mephorash for Shadow Records is neither short, sweet nor easily digestible: rather, it is provocative, engaging and even...