I’ll readily admit I came to the Panzerfaust party a little late, ‘discovering’ this Canadian powerhouse in the best possible environment: at a black metal festival....
Swedish black metal kingpins, Naglfar’s most recent album, the Century Media Records-released Cerecloth (read our album review here), has been out for almost three months, but...
Sometimes, when describing an album, you rely on comparisons and likenesses, drawn-out descriptions of moods evoked and memories conjured, coupled with sensory associations and all tied...
The term, “Appalachia” conjures more than its share of images – some deserved, some less so. While this stretch of untamed wilderness is believably home to...
In 2016, Black Funeral’s Ankou and the Death Fire gave me renewed hope for the future of United States Black Metal (USBM). While long-running stalwarts like...
Cape Town duo Constellatia rose from the ashes of two acts, Wildernessking and Crow Black Sky, bringing together a unique blend of shoegaze, black metal and...
Black metal is something of an ideological battleground. First, it carries the obvious historical stigma of anti-religious sentiment (church burnings, anyone?) but lately, the media has...
While the physical release of Septicflesh’s forthcoming live Blu-ray/DVD, Infernus Sinfonica MMXIX (read our review here), is only scheduled for 31 July, the Greek masters of...
Metal has enjoyed a long flirtation with horror: in the mass media, we’ve seen Iron Maiden turn their zombie mascot, Eddie, into a global brand, and...
I have always been a fan of the liminal space where classical music and metal collide. And when that space becomes a real, live event, I’m...
When discussing anything in the realm of extreme metal, certain adjectives don’t quite make the cut, and ‘sexy’ is definitely not often considered. South African duo...
First some background: in late 2016, the synthwave artist Carpenter Brut released an official video for his single, “Turbo Killer.” Directed by the avant-garde French duo...
Franckensteina Strataemontanus, Carach Angren’s sixth full-length album, is an exciting new chapter for the band, and the music is likely to garner a fresh, expanded audience...
And just like that, Naglfar is back. It’s been eight long years since the Swedish powerhouse graced us with Téras, their last selection of melodic death-infused...
Labelling Acherontas as merely black metal is unfair to both black metal as a genre and Acherontas as a band; the vast spectrum of sounds that...