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Review: Kratornas – The Corroding Age of Wounds (2009)
Rough, under-produced and repetitive, yet strangely mesmerizing. This is the effect that the 2009 album The Corroding Age of Wounds, courtesy of Phillipines’ Kratornas has had on me, and I still don’t really know what to think!
On one hand, Kratornas, for all intents and purposes, is nothing but a garage black metal project hoping to [...]
Review: Nightbringer – Apocalypse Sun (2010)
You know those musical scores in old movies, often of the horror variety, that would describe to the viewer the sound of “creepy crawlies,” caused by bugs and other critters? Well combine that into the black metal sphere and you’ll unstand what Colorado’s Nightbringer is about.
The band’s latest album, Apocalypse Sun does little to invoke [...]
Review: Twilight – Monument to Time End (2010)
I find it mildly amusing that while many metal indie labels are constantly scrambling to find the next best niche in metal in order to sell as many units as possible, labels like Southern Lord are all about the methodical, gritty metal, and I don’t think that formula has changed for them one iota over [...]
New Artist Watch: Death Shroud
Virginia has just been introduced to the one man black metal project known as Death Shroud, and it’s certainly no Lamb of God. All being brought to you by the brainpower of Sterthanas, Death Shroud is clearly a one man work with artificial drum beats, isolated sounding guitars, and self production, but despite Sterthanas’ limitations, [...]
Review: Wolvhammer – Black Marketeers of World War III (2010)
The dirty relationship that would arise should the dregs of sludge metal mate with the slick, foreboding nature of black metal is anything but likely…or so we thought. Out of the darkness comes Wolvhammer, a band of Minnesota natives hell bent on crushing skulls via blunt force trauma as echoed in the sludge metal handbook, [...]
Review: The Funeral Pyre – Vultures At Dawn (2010)
American black metal that sounds like…black metal? Yup, I said it, and it’s not a compliment! America has, in the last couple of years, broken forth from the dregs of black metal normalcy and typical European “compliance” for what qualifies as a worthy black metal. Bands like Wolves in the Throne Room and Nachtmystium have [...]
Review: A Forest of Stars – Opportunistic Thieves of Spring (2010)
When I first got this album I was excited to give it a listen. Everything from the name of the band to the name of the album had me captivated. However, upon listening I found myself left wanting. A Forest of Stars lacks what I like to think of as the “black metal it.” The [...]
Review: Nyseius – Militiae (2010)
While France basks in the glow of international acclaim for their various forays into original mediums of metal, there is a much darker portion of the French metal scene…black metal. Black metal in France has always enjoyed strong underground notoriety, yet has seemingly always stayed out of the limelight for the most part. However, with [...]
Review: Darkthrone – Circle the Wagons (2010)
It never ceases to amaze how much Darkthrone has transformed in recent years. Starting off as a death metal band, evolving into an out and out black metal act in their mid years, and now an amalgam of crust hardcore punk, black metal and traditional metal. Also worth noting is the band’s complete about face [...]
Review: Nefarium – Ad Discipulum (2010)
Hailing from Italy, Nefarium bleeds black metal like a shrapnel wound, and their latest album Ad Discipulum is a well constructed, well produced, reeled in release that, thankfully, doesn’t go over the top.
Black metal is hit or miss in many cases, and while Ad Discipulum doesn’t necessarily pull out all the stops, it’s a very [...]
