Meteahnă Timpurilor (Avantgarde Music), the first album from Romania’s Sur Austru, continues where the legendary Negură Bunget left off with a continuous, immersive blackened folk metal...
Out September 6th via Iron Bonehead, Transfixion of Spirits, from Portugal’s Black Cilice, is a densely packed, visceral gut punch of longer form black metal soundscaping.
When We Are Forgotten (Napalm Records) represents a honing of Imperium Dekadenz’ craft: atmospheric black metal that marries the emotional response of extreme metal with the...
Russian atmospheric black metal two-piece Grima evoke the Siberian winter at every turn on Will of the Primordial, their latest record on Naturmacht Productions.
In a special and exclusive guest blog, musician Josh Kramon offers a special behind-the-scenes feature on the writing and recording of his new We Are Strangers...
In our never-ending quest to deliver original, diverse content, we are pleased to bring you the exclusive premiere of eco-ethno-electro-pop artist Inanna’s debut music video for...
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...
Temple of Skies, the debut album from Idaho’s Tempestarii, is less an album than the exorcism of a malignant spirit - an unsettling, dynamic and ritualistic...
Valtakunta (out now via Signal Rex), the latest album by Finland’s Se Lusiferin Kannel, is a chilling, exploratory hour-and-change of seriously dark long-form ambient black metal.
Like some marvel of black metal engineering, in Moritat (out via Unholy Conspiracy Deathwork), Der Rote Milan have created an album that is functional in its...
Viewed holistically, Nyctophilia’s Ad Mortem Et Tenebrae is an enjoyable black metal listen, but not a memorable one, despite its authentic efforts at second-wave mimicry.
There couldn't have been a better surrounding to see Zeal & Ardor than in an actual Church which is exactly what we did. Check out the...
While the mood of the do-it-yourself attitude of early second-wave black metal is all but absent on this tribute record, it is still a delight in...
The latest Apocalyptic Witchcraft-released album from Ireland’s From the Bogs of Aughiska, Mineral Bearing Veins is not a safe or simple record: its evocative ambient black...
Cerement is well-written, well-executed, and deservedly belongs in Infera Bruo’s stellar discography.