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Demoncy – Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion)
Demoncy originally recorded Empire of the Fallen Angel in 2003 and a dozen years later has re-recorded and re-issued these compositions as Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion). Having...
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Exhumation – Opus Death
When receiving descriptions of new releases from labels, one can read all sort of outrageous and preposterous claims on par with “the beginning of a new era in metal”, “unprecedented innovation”, “I’m...
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Terra – Untitled
Advertised as a black metal release, Terra contains each and every one of the traits people might identify the genre with. The raspy vocals eclipsed by the distortion of the guitars, the dominating use...
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On Obscura and metal albums as song collections
Arising from modern popular music, underground metal has retained many vestigial traits that several artists have consciously tried to erase and that some observers have started to question as...
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Khors – Cold
Khors is a Ukrainian black metal band formed in 2004. Coming from the same general scene as Drudkh and Nokturnal Mortum, Khors’ brand of black metal is made by mostly simple riffs and long, simple and...
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Parabellum – Sacrilegio
There are some records that achieve greatness through their studied and natural use of the musical language that our civilization has been building up for many centuries. Such a record was Close to...
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Demoncy release promo video for special re-recorded version of Empire of the...
Demoncy’s new release: Empire of the Fallen Angel (Eternal Black Dominion) is set for international release onJune 29th on both CD and vinyl LP formats via Forever Plagued Records. Although originally...
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Luciferian Rites – When the Light Dies (2015)
Luciferian Rites play black metal in a style that at first calls to mind middle-period Graveland. The hand-strum technique outlining chords is also in line with Immortal’s At the Heart of Winter and...
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Absconditus – Kατάβασις (Katavasis)
Being a casual listener, it is easy to miss black metal’s essence completely. It is easy to think that it is just some repetitive “atmospheric riffing”. What we forget is that verbal descriptions of...
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Wende – Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft
Tagged as black metal and ambient, Wende is a one-man project that attempts to not only appropriate Burzum’s style, but also build on it, effectively using it to express something different. In this...
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Obsequiae Premieres In The Absence Of Light
Obsequiae, Minnesota’s organic, medieval metal outfit, is preparing for the release of their sophomore LP, Aria Of Vernal Tombs, through 20 Buck Spin later this month. While the anxiously awaited...
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Satanic and Norse Black Metal: A Comparative Examination of Philosophy and...
Trying to discern a coherent ideology or philosophy behind the Black Metal movement,even if we’re only considering bands from a specific time and location, is automatically something of a losing...
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Bureviy – Concealed Beyond the Space (2015)
Hailing from Ukraine, Bureviy (Буревій = Hurricane) play a modern take on black metal which makes use of old school sub-styles by keeping them relatively uncontaminated but subsumed under the band’s...
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Dolentia set release date for highly anticipated album
Altare Productions is proud to present Dolentia’s highly anticipated second album, Iniciação Eversiva, set for international release on June 22nd. The vinyl LP version of Dolentia’s Iniciação Eversiva...
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On The Underrating of Recognized Classics
Two of the most pervasive topics in metal are the “underrating” and the “overrating” of a band or album. Given that most people are prone to confuse their emotional attachment to music with a sign of...
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Deiphago to release new album
Filipino violent black metal band Deiphago are set to release their new album, Into the Eye of Satan, on August 7th. Tracklisting for Deiphago’s Into the Eye of Satan 1. Intro: Abomination 2. Evil and...
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Necrophor – Exterminatus (2015)
Playing a black metal with structural tendencies that border on death metal, Necrophor delivers mid-paced songs grounded in orthodoxy in terms of technique and construction but taking the listener to...
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Frosthelm Release Official Video for “Silent and Dark, The Everlasting Sky”
Playing a Speed Metal with black metal tinges ala Immortal on At the Heart of Winter, North Dakota’s Frosthelm offers the public a brand new video of their song “Silent and Dark, The Everlasting Sky”,...
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Imposition – Memento Mori (2013)
Imposition is a single-man black metal project which can be compared in approach to what Sort Vokter did in their sole release, Folkloric Necrometal. Minimalist composition, backed with synths that...
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Barshasketh set release date for debut album
Today, Barshasketh sets June 30th as the international release date for their third full-length album, Ophidian Henonis. Tracklisting for Barshasketh’s Ophidian Henosis: Ophidian Henosis – I...
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