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Tag: Black metal
Album Review | Dö | Astral Death Cult
Welcome to dying.
#116 | Album Reviews | Disentomb, Batushka, Krzysztof Drabikowski, Skáphe + Wormlust
In this album review cluster, we plunge into the musty auras permeating from Disentomb, we make effort to settle the debate between the better of the two Batushka’s, Bartushka and Krzysztof’s solo record, and we capstone the episode with the harrowing psychedelic incantation invoked by Skáphe and Wormlust.
#115 | EP Review | Wazzara – Zessa
Zessa comes together like an enchanting mist delicately strewn about a world long forgotten.
#112 | Discussion | Fire in the Mountains Festival 2019
A recounting of our journey out to Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and the festival that transpired near the Grand Teton mountain range.
Album Review | Falls of Rauros | Patterns in Mythology
Patterns in Mythology outlines grand dips and swells, the balance always shifting between light and dark; a maelstrom of dissonance and harmony.
#110 | Album Reviews | Misþyrming, Ossuary, Lord Dying, Firelink
Our latest album review variety episode where we dissect some frigid black metal, murky death-doom, progressive sludge, and Dark Souls-inspired black metal.
Album Review | GRYLLE | Les Grandes Compagnies
What sets Les Grandes Compagnies apart is its timbre. The sonic quality of the music, its overall texture, is so much more welcoming than the slicing distortion and overpowering drums (and sometimes terrible mixing) that are generally indicative of a traditional black metal album.
Album Review | Advent Varic | Tumulus Part I & II
Advent Varic is the soundscape to catastrophe; gloom, an ever-present and sobering effect.
#105 | Album Review | Heavy Meta – Heavy Meta
A ferocious concoction of mathcore and hardcore infused with shots of progressive inclinations and black metal animosity.
#102 | Album Review | Tempel – Tempel
There is a candid sense of liveliness and joviality that pierces Tempel’s compositions. Much of the record leaves an impression of a hard/classic rock aesthetic, however, the way they dig their heels into metallic qualities, carried by vociferous rasps, makes the album feel retro and simultaneously progressive.