Wardruna, the Nordic folk sensation, have just released Kvitravn, their fifth full-length album, the follow up to their 2018 acoustic live album, Skald. Nearly 20 years...
In the mid-90s, Therion’s Theli and that album’s operatic game-changer, “To Mega Therion,” entirely altered my perception of what extreme metal could be. And, in my...
Perhaps it is my own advancing age, but it pleases me more than I can say when two stalwarts many would consider past their prime follow...
Blistering waves of demonic fury assault me from all sides, as quality production and malevolent atmospheres meet in a swirling tumult of black metal wrath… but...
Czech psychedelic/experimental black metal outfit Voluptas released their latest album Towards the Great White Nothing this past September via Metalgate. Their cerebral approach made our ears...
The Austrian duo Harakiri for the Sky have been making waves in the post-black/shoegaze scene for nearly a decade, and for various reasons. Number one among these...
Say what you like about Facebook-enemy-number-one Varg Vikernes, before he completely went off the rails he defined not one but two musical genres: Burzum’s early recordings...
I like black metal. I like folk and pagan influences on black metal. I like these influences making their presence known in softer, open interludes within...
Even if you haven’t had the pleasure of perusing Tero Ikäheimonen’s excellent history of Finnish black metal, The Devil’s Cradle, it rapidly becomes obvious that this...
A philosophical quandary: there is an invitation-only livestreamed event where Einar Selvik will personally introduce the forthcoming Wardruna album, Kvitravn, and perform two songs from said...
To celebrate 30 years of Victory Records and their contribution to punk, hardcore, metal and rock, we are giving away CDs and merchandise from the Chicago,...
I have had many reasons to be grateful to Eisenwald in 2020. I’ve folksy grooved to Osi and The Jupiter, railed with black metal fury at...
The Cloven Hand, a deviant electronic nightmare by Zebadiah Crowe, is only the first chapter in two EP releases. Drawing from their previous album, Host Rider...
Twenty-one years is a long time to spend on a debut full-length, by anyone’s standards. But that’s exactly what happened with Ymir’s eponymous record for Finland’s...
In the early days of the second wave of black metal, Norway had its Helvete-based “Black Metal Inner Circle” and France had it “Les Légions Noires”...