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Norwegian TV “Viking Metal” Episode Covers Enslaved
As the music world tries to deal with the effect of the culmination of heavy metal in black metal, the genre that went furthest from “normie” music and the most into the ancient and futuristic both,...
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Lycopolis – Viper Land (2021)
Coming at black metal from the same chaotic rendering that propelled both later French and Polish scenes, Lycopolis make muddy, distorted sound sing with lengthy riffs enwrapped in cascades of...
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Goblin TV interviews Sarcófago member Incubus
For those who follow the legends of early proto-black metal, the name Sarcófago conjures up a vision of the ultimate boundary: barely in time, barely musical, and yet intensely creative and focused,...
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Interview with Jan Kruitwagen of Kaeck (2021)
Already gaining a lead on all other contenders for the most compelling underground metal album of the year, Kaeck has on Het Zwarte Dictaat made the masterpiece of violent rhythm riffs and melodies...
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Katavasia – Invoking the Spirit of Doom (2021)
The problem with black metal is that it tried to evolve, not realizing that it was the ultimate evolution and had to go within, making more complex melodies and keeping its droning ambient...
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Dauþuz – Vom schwarzen Schmied (2021)
For underground metal to inherit itself, it must become what it is, which is a complex transition between modern decay and a scientific pagan folk music that brings out the natural order in a...
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Eucharist Releases New Video “Shadows”
Technical black metal band Eucharist, famed for A Velvet Creation back in the founding of the genre, has released a video of a new song for 2021:
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Solitvdo – Hegemonikon (2021)
During the middle to late 1990s, metal fell into panic because it was clear that the genre needed to become progressive without falling into the usual mishmash of jazz, lite rock, and protest music...
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Funeral Mist – Deiform (2021)
In the past, the DLA/DMU refused to review utter garbage, which is generally the right decision except when that garbage is the default for the subgenre chosen by market inertia. In other words, when...
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Grieve – Funeral (2021)
Black metal established a template, with the original bands knowing that they were the last gasp of sanity before the egomania of humanism took over, but some have carried on. Grieve knowingly works...
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Black Metal History Month (2022)
Dying civilizations operate from one principle alone: keep the pivot of power functional so that everyone stays together and the civilization does not follow inertia and simply disintegrate. This is...
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Blackhearts (2017)
Chronicling the later years of black metal, Blackhearts explores a world of those trying to uphold the spirit of a world that has passed them but which they find more relevant than what surrounds...
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Blazemth – The Return of Lucifer (2022)
Black metal travelled many roads when attempting to fully understand its identity; many of these paths were imaginative at first, but ultimately served to further divide the genre into identifiable...
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Interview with Jan Kruitwagen of Kaeck (2021)
Already gaining a lead on all other contenders for the most compelling underground metal album of the year, Kaeck has on Het Zwarte Dictaat made the masterpiece of violent rhythm riffs and melodies...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Katavasia – Invoking the Spirit of Doom (2021)
The problem with black metal is that it tried to evolve, not realizing that it was the ultimate evolution and had to go within, making more complex melodies and keeping its droning ambient...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Dauþuz – Vom schwarzen Schmied (2021)
For underground metal to inherit itself, it must become what it is, which is a complex transition between modern decay and a scientific pagan folk music that brings out the natural order in a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Eucharist Releases New Video “Shadows”
Technical black metal band Eucharist, famed for A Velvet Creation back in the founding of the genre, has released a video of a new song for 2021:
View ArticleClik here to view.
Solitvdo – Hegemonikon (2021)
During the middle to late 1990s, metal fell into panic because it was clear that the genre needed to become progressive without falling into the usual mishmash of jazz, lite rock, and protest music...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Funeral Mist – Deiform (2021)
In the past, the DLA/DMU refused to review utter garbage, which is generally the right decision except when that garbage is the default for the subgenre chosen by market inertia. In other words, when...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Grieve – Funeral (2021)
Black metal established a template, with the original bands knowing that they were the last gasp of sanity before the egomania of humanism took over, but some have carried on. Grieve knowingly works...
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