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Tranquillizer – Des Endes Anfang (2015)
Sold to us by a promo company as “melodic” death/black metal, Des Endes Anfang by Tranquillizer (sic) is an ungainly fusion of In Flames type melodeath, Pantera flavored brocore grooves, and maybe a...
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Pureblood Albums – A 2013 Recap
Article by David Rosales As another year ends and a new one begins, many “best of” lists pop up here and there, among them our own here at DMU. While others may be eager to know about what is ever...
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20th anniversary of For kunsten maa vi evig vike by Kvist
Kvist’s For kunsten maa vi evig vike came out on the first day of 1996; a year in which booming consumer technology and gimmicky multimedia projects overshadowed one of the many deaths of the black...
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Burzum’s Filosofem turns 20 today
This is the sort of recording that could very easily displace the already accomplished works of Kvist from your memory. Filosofem, while released 20 years ago this day, was recorded in March 1993;...
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Death Metal Underground’s Best Albums of 2015
It took some time, but despite the deluge of content constantly bombarding us and aspiring metal fans worldwide, we’ve been able to reach some level of consensus on 2015’s worthwhile metal music. Not...
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Pensées Nocturnes to release À boire et à manger
I forgot about the ambitious but flawed works of Pensées Nocturnes rather quickly after having heard of them for the first time. Back in the day, DMU contributors wanted them to, amongst other things,...
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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...
View ArticleDeströyer 666 premieres “Live And Burn” off Wildfire
It sounds like K. K. Warslut has achieved his humble goals for Wildfire if “Live and Burn” is anything to go by. This promotional single sounds like a fairly by-the-numbers bit of 1st wave black metal...
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Reencarnación – 888 (2015)
Article by David Rosales Obscure and wacky ’80s bands are always a treat to listen to. They bring the darkest side of Hellhammer or early Bathory while being completely unpredictable, without going to...
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Upcoming Tours – Absu
Spring 2016 will see Absu on their… cumbersomely named “Merelogical Nihilism Connexus Tour”. The main purpose of this tour is building up hype for Absu’s next studio album, which creatively will be...
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Raven Music selling sheet music of Emperor’s debut
Raven Music Editions is a relatively new company that sells sheet music transcriptions of various ‘alternative’ musics, including black metal. Recently, they’ve published a transcription of In The...
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Blliigghhtted – Kosmoskampf (2015)
It taunted me with its existence – for nearly half a month, working on DMU meant being privvy to our eventual stream of the upcoming Kosmoskampf. Blliigghhtted is for all purposes another star in the...
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Witchblood – Hail to Lyderhorn(2014)
Article by David Rosales Witchblood is a black metal band that falls on the darkest corner of the folky side of the fence. While not specifically minimalist, Hail to Lyderhorn is a very simple and...
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Upcoming tours – Mgla, Aosoth
Part of the Agonia Records stable is out on the road again. DMU contributors have discussed both Aosoth and Mgla in the past and at least in some cases have been able to find value in them (although...
View ArticleCirith Gorgor releases video for “Wille Zu Macht”
We covered Cirith Gorgor’s latest album a while back; this Dutch black metal band is ahead of many of its compatriots in terms of writing coherent black metal even if they face very stiff competition...
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Zloslut – U Transu Sa Nepoznatim Siluetama (2015)
Article by Corey M Serbian black metal group Zloslut received some well-deserved coverage on DMU in 2013 when they released their first album, Zloslutni Horizont – Donosilac Prokletstva, Očaja I...
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Sadistic Metal Reviews mini-feature – Vargstuhr – Howlings (2015)
Article by David Rosales Musical genres work very much like languages, transmitting information at an abstract level, albeit simultaneously at a much more intuitive and unconscious level, hence its...
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Naðra – Allir Vegir Til Glötunar (2016)
Article by David Rosales It is hard to ascertain if it’s pretentiousness or merely a poor appreciation of classic minimalist metal that brings about all these very underdeveloped (or simply shitty)...
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Abbath – Abbath (2016)
Abbath’s pitfalls on Abbath are garden variety pitfalls (haphazard songwriting, too much time on the mixing consoles). What really distinguishes this album from all the other comebacks (like our...
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Folteraar – Vertellingen van een Donkere Eeuw (2016)
Article by David Rosales Folteraar’s 2016 release comes to us with a proposal that is very much in vogue in the current metal underground. To any wary of the pitfalls of following trends, this might...
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