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...
Anaal Nathrakh's latest offering 'Endarkenment' is the perfect dark-souled, black-hearted soundtrack to modern life. Read our review.
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...
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...
Behemoth have announced ‘In Absentia Dei’, an immersive livestream spectacular which will broadcast from a secret church location in Poland.
Arjun Gill from Calgary's Wake discusses how channelling their personal trauma into music is a form of therapy. Read the interview here.
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....
If an American Dream still exists that doesn’t involve the slow and steady race towards fascist totalitarianism, unchecked corporate welfare, the 99 percent getting fucked like...
Alphaville is the first Imperial Triumphant release I’ve come across, and, when an album is prefaced with a word of advice to do “nothing but listen...
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...
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...
Formed in 2000, the Californian extreme industrial outfit Dawn of Ashes – a metaphor for the ‘beginning of an end’ – rose to popularity with their...
The Northern Indiana depressive black metal outfit, Nodus Tollens released its debut full-length record on July 7th via Trepanation Recordings. The one-man project, fronted by Cicatrix,...
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...