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Unholy Craft – Saa Mørkt, Saa Mektig (2024)
Unholy Craft builds in the style of later Darkthrone with the pacing of Mayhem, delivering an enjoyable journey through melody meeting noise and pummeling d-beats and blast beats, which although...
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What Is Art?
Writing about a dead genre can be exhausting. You search through ten thousand bands looking for the few that grasp what the genre was always about — its newer incarnations are meaningless — and...
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From Hades to Valhalla: Bathory The Epic Story by Jose Luis Cano Barron (2024)
By the time black metal and death metal made it back, the actual inspirations — Slayer, Hellhammer, Sodom, and Bathory — were almost forgotten in a rush toward the new style that was birthed from...
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Sadistic Metal Reviews: WWIII and Regime Change Edition
As the world continues to burn itself through human arrogance, we turn to metal because we need a voice of an apocalypse that we would like to make triumphant. In destruction of the weaker, the...
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Black Funeral – Flames of Samūm (2024)
Every day, black metal tries to escape its past and get to the moment before that past when the why of black metal was clearer, because only from striving for that goal can black metal recapture its...
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Sacramentum Releases The Coming of Chaos Remaster
Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype: Swedish blackened death metallers SACRAMENTUM are...
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Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylän Yllä (2021)
Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal,...
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Sacramentum – The Coming of Chaos (Re-Mix 2024)
by Charles Alexander The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that...
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Beherit North American Tour 2025
Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the...
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Sammath Re-Issues “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” demo (1997)
Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren”...
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