Trivium frontman Matt Heafy unleashes ‘Rashomon,’ the first fruits of his black metal project Ibaraki; as dramatic and thought-provoking as it is unrelentingly violent.
Vampirism, pretentiousness and grim black metal. Vampirska's Apparitions Frozen in Chimera Twilight is a glorious combination of all three.
Putting their own dark twist on this savage ’90s-inspired black metal onslaught, Abhoria drops their debut, self-titled album (Prosthetic Records). Read our review here...
On ‘The Humming Mountain’ Gaahls WYRD can be seen as a prime example of how black metal as a genre has grown up and no longer...
Manchester blackened death metal band Necronautical return with their epic fourth album 'Slain In The Spirit'. Read our review here.
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 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...
Telemark (Candlelight Records) is Ihsahn’s personal love letter to his roots, geographically and musically: five tracks that blend black metal, avant-garde experimentalism, Norwegian folk melodies, and...
Nergal's blackened-blues project Me And That Man have teamed up with Emperor frontman Ihsahn on the release of new song "By The River". Check it out...
We sat down with the #dungeonsynth master, Håvard Ellefsen, also known as Mortiis, about all things Mortiis, including the new Omniprescence Productions/Dead Seed Productions album Spirit...
The obsessive Mortiis fanbase will most probably find much to enjoy on Spirit Of Rebellion, and there are genuine fragments of inspired dungeon synth that could...
The reissue of Stab Wounds by Germany's Dark Fortress is not only a worthy addition to any black metal library, this remastered version is a great...
If UK black metal built around the sparing, yet tasteful application of keyboards over fairly complex guitar passages with occasional clean, operatic vocal passages is your...
Despite the fun ‘80s horror thematic concept and some excellent songwriting, Night of Whispering Souls (Extreme Metal Music) by Croatian one-man black metal project Tryglav, 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...
