Let’s start this off by stating unequivocally that I love Frontline Assembly and, in my eyes, they can do no wrong. I’ll take this even further...
As a music reviewer, it is so easy to forget that so much of music enjoyment, despite recommendations and comparisons, really just comes down to personal...
Every now and then, a gentle nudge towards the grim precipice of all-out disruption is a welcome thing. When it’s an insidious little virus that entirely...
Historically, Puscifer may have been called many things – weird, vulgar, groovy, obtuse… – but one shared classification has to be simply “entertaining.” This categorization carries its...
To the uninitiated, Mörk Gryning starts off their latest album as just another Swedish black metal outfit: evil, moody and just a bit faster, harder and...
My apologies in advance, as this will sound like it’s being read by Sean Bean, but there is no other way to say it: one does...
In the wake of their most blistering, ambitious release yet, Djinn (read our review), released September 25th via Eisenwald Records, Portland’s Uada are riding the crest...
Finntroll’s latest recording, Vredesvävd (read our review right here) was unleashed unto the public on September 18th via Century Media Records. Just prior to the album’s...
It’s been only two years, but it feels even longer since I delved into Colorado-based black metal outfit Wayfarer’s World’s Blood album (read our review here);...
Folk metal can hardly – or fairly – be called a genre: it spans such a wide variety of styles, sounds and themes that it’s a...
If Norway was the epicentre of the second wave of black metal in the first half of the 1990s, then Iceland has to be the contemporary...
There are two salient lessons I have learned from the livestream event, In Absentia Dei, blackened death giants Behemoth hosted this past weekend: First, if you need...
Way back in 1857, when Baudelaire published his poetic denigration of Parisian excess and opulence, Les Fleurs du Mal, he could not have had the faintest...
This may not be the most considered strategy, but I’m going to begin my review of UADA’s third full-length, Djinn, by saying it is not the...
There’s been a lot happening in the realm of dark, acoustic folk music lately: and following in the footsteps of the likes of King Dude or...