A mixed bag of metal styles, from thrash to black-n-roll, on the Nijmegen leg of Abbath’s Outstrider (Season of Mist) tour with 1349, Vltimas and Nuclear...
Svarttjern remain dedicated to True Norwegian Black Metal and, if anything, are even more steadfast in their delivery of fast, heavy paeans to ancient acts of...
Disharmony take us on a trip down Hellenic Black metal memory lane on Messe de Minuit, their latest album on Iron Bonehead: but while the key...
Múspellzheimr remind us on Lunar Apparition and Amor Fati’s re-release of Hyldest til Troldommens Flamme that the frozen north is not just a state, but a...
The Infernal Pathway (Season of Mist) is easily 1349’s most complex record yet, but the Norwegian quartet’s iconoclastic virulence is in no way diminished by this...
1349’s fast, heavy and uncompromising “aural hellfire” approach to Norwegian Black Metal returns on a state-sponsored tribute to the work of artist Edvard Munch, Dødskamp, released...
Mardom (out April 12th via War Anthem Records) reinvents no wheels, but the powerful nostalgia it conjures of early 1990s second-wave Scandinavian black metal is a...
We are privileged in bringing you “Sleep is the Brother of Death", the newest track from black metal trio Horizon Ablaze.
Day three of Bloodstock and the festival came to a close with a bill that included Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Pro-Pain, Black Label Society and a massive...
More photos from Bloodstock Festival 2015 with day two featuring Napalm Death, 1349, Opeth, Death DTA and headliners Within Temptation amongst the bands playing.
While, from personal experience, I find that most black metal is too much effort to really listen to, occasionally a band comes along that really grabs...
Norwegian black metal tyrants 1349 (Frost [Satyricon] - drums, Ravn - vocals, Seidemann - bass, Archaon - guitars) have released the first track from their forthcoming...
Recently lead vocalist Ravn from the Norwegian Black Metal band 1349 spoke with me about the band's new release Demonoir. Demonior is the band's fifth full-length...
