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Summoning to release new EP, re-issue vinyl versions of older classic albums
Members of ambient black metal band Summoning have braved the hellscape that is Facebook in order to carry news of further releases. Earlier this year saw Summoning release their first album in seven...
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Seasons of Mist unleashes Ildjarn re-issues onto a grateful world
Back in the 1990s, most people couldn’t stand Ildjarn and side-project Sort Vokter. These bands were seen as too simple, primitive, nihilistic, raw and amoral for even black metal. One web site — our...
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Ildjarn – Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths re-issue
Like thrash bands of the 1980s or the first two Napalm Death EPs, Ildjarn is often first mistaken for a novelty for its short and seemingly irrational songs. What exists under the skin is a complex...
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Ildjarn – Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths
Originally shunned by most of the “new and wise” black metal community in the post-1995 era, Ildjarn emerged shrouded in mystery, and its renown has increased over the past almost two decades through...
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Empire Auriga – Ascending the Solar Throne
American ambient-metal band Empire Auriga’s second album Ascending the Solar Throne expands the style pioneered by Burzum through the “Decrepitude” I& II tracks from “anti-black metal” album...
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Mgła – Exercises in Futility (2015)
A recent discovery of mine, if far from a newcomer to metal music; Mgła plays a sort of streamlined melodic black metal on Exercises in Futility. There are no real divergences from this formula, even...
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Defending Belus
Article by David Rosales; read yet another (negative) contemporary review of Belus here After an incursion into ambient metal that lasted for a few albums, Burzum was seemingly trying to make a...
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Desecresy – Towards Nebulae (2019)
Bands that possess both unique style and substance, since these are usually related, face difficulty in maintaining consistency because over time the content builds on previous ideas, and therefore...
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Nocturnal Metal
Slayer showed us the prototypical underground metal band, fusing together melodic heavy metal (Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest) and high-speed hardcore to make a new voice for metal. It kept...
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Necrophiliac – No Living Man Is Innocent (2020)
In nature, nothing can exist in stasis, but radical change forms the same chaos that stasis does, namely a loss of energy potential. This means that anything enduring exists in a constant state of...
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Summoning to release new EP, re-issue vinyl versions of older classic albums
Members of ambient black metal band Summoning have braved the hellscape that is Facebook in order to carry news of further releases. Earlier this year saw Summoning release their first album in seven...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Seasons of Mist unleashes Ildjarn re-issues onto a grateful world
Back in the 1990s, most people couldn’t stand Ildjarn and side-project Sort Vokter. These bands were seen as too simple, primitive, nihilistic, raw and amoral for even black metal. One web site — our...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ildjarn – Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths re-issue
Like thrash bands of the 1980s or the first two Napalm Death EPs, Ildjarn is often first mistaken for a novelty for its short and seemingly irrational songs. What exists under the skin is a complex...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ildjarn – Seven Harmonies of Unknown Truths
Originally shunned by most of the “new and wise” black metal community in the post-1995 era, Ildjarn emerged shrouded in mystery, and its renown has increased over the past almost two decades through...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Empire Auriga – Ascending the Solar Throne
American ambient-metal band Empire Auriga’s second album Ascending the Solar Throne expands the style pioneered by Burzum through the “Decrepitude” I& II tracks from “anti-black metal” album...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mgła – Exercises in Futility (2015)
A recent discovery of mine, if far from a newcomer to metal music; Mgła plays a sort of streamlined melodic black metal on Exercises in Futility. There are no real divergences from this formula, even...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Defending Belus
Article by David Rosales; read yet another (negative) contemporary review of Belus here After an incursion into ambient metal that lasted for a few albums, Burzum was seemingly trying to make a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Desecresy – Towards Nebulae (2019)
Bands that possess both unique style and substance, since these are usually related, face difficulty in maintaining consistency because over time the content builds on previous ideas, and therefore...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nocturnal Metal
Slayer showed us the prototypical underground metal band, fusing together melodic heavy metal (Iron Maiden, Mercyful Fate, Judas Priest) and high-speed hardcore to make a new voice for metal. It kept...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Necrophiliac – No Living Man Is Innocent (2020)
In nature, nothing can exist in stasis, but radical change forms the same chaos that stasis does, namely a loss of energy potential. This means that anything enduring exists in a constant state of...
View Article