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The Craft of Metal #1: Satanic Rites —Part II
Form and Function Musical innovation does not spawn independently. Most of the progressions in underground metal have taken stylistic influence from more accessible genres and within those aural...
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Hellhammer Discography Overview
Our tribute to Hellhammer is more than a recognition of their historical importance. Rather, we understand the relevance of Hellhammer as one artistic, in terms of the development of the craft of...
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Mastema – The Grand Holocaust of Flesh (2013)
Mastema is one of those fiends of the black metal satanic underground that surfaces only to deliver concentrated, though minimalist, doses of the most alienating, horrific metal music. Armed with...
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Alpha Hydrae – Venomous Devotion – The Hematic Lust (2013)
Venomous Devotion – The Hematic Lust by Alpha Hydrae Article by Belisario Alpha Hydrae is a rather recent metal outfit hailing from Monterrey, northern Mexico. Their only official release to date is...
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Wormreich / Diabolus Amator / Gravespawn / Vesterian – Infirmos Vocat Deus...
SODP062: Wormreich / Diabolus Amator / Gravespawn / Vesterian – Infirmos Vocat Deus Fidei [split] (2016) by Symbol Of Domination Prod. This is a split with contributions from four different bands,...
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La Vanguardia Subterránea Podcasts
With a total of 18 podcasts in conducted in Spanish, programs by La Vanguardia Subterránea are worth the time of non-Spanish speakers wishing to spend an evening exploring dark and twisted music....
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Blood Stained Dusk – Dirge of Death’s Silence (2001)
Upon listening to this album, the listener familiar with the classic Norwegian black metal albums from the first half of the ninetiess will undoubtedly be reminded of Emperor In the Nightside Eclipse...
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Bethlehem – Dictius Te Necare (1996)
Dictius Te Necare by Bethlehem Bethlehem are a German band that was formed with the intention of adding sorrow, melancholy and madness into extreme metal. Their first opus “Dark Metal” used a mixture...
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Gradus ad Phlegethon: First Thoughts
A notion has sprung out of Andreas Languetus’ mind for a project titled Gradus ad Phlegethon the sole purpose of which is not simply to study or theorize, but rather construct a viable method of...
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Judas Iscariot – An Ancient Starry Sky (2018)
An Ancient Starry Sky by Judas Iscariot Judas Iscariot is an old and rather “popular” name in the U.S. black metal milieu, however for reasons of ideological reputation rather than for any convincing...
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Mortum Eheieh Chaos (2017)
Eheieh Chaos by Mortum Mortum have by now focused, or rather reduced their approach to black metal to very specific kind of musical statements, manifesting in more prominent melodies and an overall...
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Reverorum Ib Malacht – Im Ra Distare Summum Soveris Seris Vas Innoble (2018)
The present album sees Reverorum ib Malacht moving towards more concise expressions of their by-now established sound and style. While now we see less of the separation and experimentation of...
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De Vermis Mysteriis / Azhubham Haani [Split] (1992)
Sweden’s Angramain’yo was responsible for various, interrelated black metal projects in that appeared in demos during the years 1991 and 1992. They were all rather primitive, clearly eschewing...
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Vargavinter – Frostfödd (1996)
A single-release project from Sweden, Vargavinter play a style of black metal that could accurately be described as melodic and ‘ripping’, ‘pagan’ and ‘symphonic’ without falling into any of those...
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Kataxu – Hunger of Elements (2005)
Kataxu play a style of black metal in which the keyboards appear to lead, while the guitars follow a complementary role that enhances and sustains. In maintaining activity in the melodic movement of...
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Kristallnacht – Blooddrenched Memorial 1994-2002 (2006)
Article by Doron Rosenberg The present is the final compilation of all music released by “NSBM” band Kristallnacht. The importance of this release lies entirely on the fact that it is one of the few...
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Fanisk: 2002-2013
Article by Doron Rosenberg It would certainly not be far from the mark to say that Fanisk are the crowning achievement of “NSBM.” The limits reached by Eldrig’s sublime compositions, tempered by the...
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Serpent ov Old – Withering Hope (2012)
S E R P E N T O V O L D Withering Hope 2012 Era Horrificus It is the way of things that genres arise from culture and philosophy, as well as from personal interpretions of that culture and...
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Sabbat – Envenom (1991)
Sabbat are a cult Japanese band known for primarily for being Japanese and playing a heavily Venom influenced style of Heavy metal that sometimes crosses over to real black metal though rarely and for...
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Old Wainds / Навь (Nav’) – We Are the North… Mean Cold War… (2003)
The early phenomenon of Old Wainds played an extremely condensed and straightforward style of black metal that represented the ultimate distillation of what the genre had to offer as a sequence of...
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