Sammath Unleashes Live Video Of “Totenhügel” From Upcoming 2019 Album Across...
Brutal yet melodic Dutch-German black metal fire team Sammath plan to unleash their latest album, Across the Rhine Is Only Death, during early second quarter 2019. This album extends their work on...
View ArticleThe Best Underground Metal Of 2018
The task before a reviewer varies widely. If you want to be a big shot, you need to write about what the labels want, since they are the only source of top-down money coming into the genre. They will...
View ArticleEnd of Year Reflections on Metal
The end of the year for some people is a time where they participate in debauchery and related idiocy as they are convinced that the arbitrary beginning of a calendar year absolves them of past...
View ArticleNECROM – The Light Has Never Been Here (2019)
article by T. Desecration From the mid-90’s throughout the 21st century, the Ukrainian Black Metal scene has received the attention of listeners across the world. The Metal music coming from this...
View ArticleRetrospective : Intestine Baalism – An Anatomy of the Beast
Intestine Baalism are a Death metal band formed in the suburbs of Tokyo in 1991, their first full length only came out in 1997, having only released a pair of demos featuring songs that ended up on...
View ArticleCult of the Horns – Chapter I – Domination
Cult of the Horns are a French one man band from Bordeaux with one full length released to this day. The band’s aesthetic is that of the typical NWN “goat-something” band but beyond the corpse paint...
View ArticleZloslut – Sahar
Zloslut is a Serbian Black metal that initially consisted of sole founding member Agnarion who had produced all the records by himself but here on Sahar, Agnarion is joined by a full band that changes...
View ArticleSome Brief Thoughts : Mayhem – De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
After having built up a legacy for over a quarter of a century, it seems fitting to briefly revisit a few thoughts on the genre-defining De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas. It should be taken for granted that...
View ArticleKeep Black Metal Evil
We find ourselves at one of those terrifying and exciting points in history, like standing on the narrow point of a mountain ledge and feeling the cold northern breeze. The old system has failed; we...
View ArticleInfamous – Winter Ruins in Howling Mist (2019)
Infamous contributed two tracks to the split CD/EP with Cmentarny Zew, Thorncastle and Ordo Sanguinis Noctis named Winter Ruins in Howling Mist released by Darker Than Black Records. These songs...
View Article#Metalgate: Former Agalloch Frontman Subject to Pillory from Media, Betrayal...
Guest article by Eugene Stryker The PC witch-hunt of the Leftist Indie/Mallcore Mafia continues ever on in its plaguing of the Metal scene throughout the 2010’s. No longer content to pillory some of...
View ArticleFuneral Winds – Sinister Creed (2018)
At some point even the ablest writer runs out of adjectives and nouns to describe a bad release, but in this case, I will unleash the nastiest word of all: fraud. This album, the typical moron normies...
View ArticlePreview Track Released by LICE, a Blackgaze Super-Group Formed by SHINING and...
A most unexpected collaboration has emerged in the realm of pseudo-Black Metal, with the announcement that Swedish tabloid star Kvarforth of DSBM “legends” Shining has teamed up with “smooth...
View ArticleFaraón – T.E.S.I.S. (2000)
article written by Belisario This album is the debut opus and the only recording done by Argentinian project Faraón (Spanish for “pharaoh”), a short-lived one-man band set in motion by the individual...
View ArticleUncovering The mysteries of Molested – Blod-Draum
Norway has never been known for being an exponent of death metal, barring the early contributions of Darkthrone and the parent bands to some of the greatest black metal groups to emerge from the...
View ArticleSome Brief Thoughts: The Problem of Originality in Nowadays Metal
It is rather commonplace among certain circles to engage in lamentations over the current state of Metal and a perceived disconnect between the classic glory days of high adventure with contemporary...
View ArticleMarduk Accused Of Being Nazis…….Again!
Once again blackened death metal band Marduk is accused by devotees and moralists of flirting with right wing ideas. This time band members supposedly bought some stuff from the Nordic Resistance...
View ArticleXibalba – Ah Tza Xibalba Itzaes (2018)
Both late comebacks of metal bands and revivals of metal sub-genres are offering familiar yet much more streamlined, simplified and somewhat more populist version of themselves. In various ways it...
View ArticleSerpent Ov Old Announce Miskatonic Abysmal Path and Release Preview Track
Self-described “Unorthodox Black Metal” act Serpent ov Old have announced that they plan to release a full length album around the winter of this year entitled Miskatonic Abysmal Path. This will be...
View ArticleDMU Song Contest #3: King of the Serfs Edition Part 2
By the Hammer of the Gods, the time has come to round up those contestants who dared to volunteer themselves as subjects to the perennially stern yet perspicacious judgement of the DMU Lords! Let us...
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