Some months ago, longstanding Houston record shack Sound Exchange moved from its second location in the Montrose to the new, hip and old-school East Houston neighborhood off Milby Street.
71 CommentsBeherit North American Tour 2025
Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the resurgence of ancient spirit and sci-fi futurism that the genre has always proclaimed.
38 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, shows
Hammer of Damnation 1991-1996 Zine Anthology
Way back in the early 1990s, Niko Skorpio helmed a zine named Hammer of Damnation in addition to handling vocal duties in Thergothon.
5 CommentsTags: death metal, hammer of damnation, zines
Merry Antichristmas!
Were you hoping for happy Christmas greetings? Of course not!
11 CommentsTags: abrahamism, agnosticism, antichristmas, atheism, christmas, jul, metaphysical dualism, monism, Satan
Sacramentum – The Coming of Chaos (Re-Mix 2024)
by Charles Alexander
The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that was in vogue for a couple years but ultimately muddles the amazing composition within this album.
18 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum, Speed Metal
Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylän Yllä (2021)
Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal, speed metal, and epic heavy metal with an emphasis on changing atmosphere.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, havakruunu
Inborn Suffering – Pale Grey Monochrome (2025)
The line between doom-death and funeral doom blurs with this release since there is relatively little death metal or phrasal riffs, and more of the approach Skepticism and Thergothon took with slow even chording of overlapping tone progressions overlaid with lead melodic rhythm guitar.
3 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, doom-death, funeral doom, inborn suffering
Interview with Garden Gnome
Every genre hits a ceiling. How does jazz rise beyond The Shape of Jazz to Come, electronica exceed Computer World, classical beat the Beethoven nine symphonies, or black metal surpass Hvis Lyset Tar Oss, Pure Holocaust, and Transilvanian Hunger?
62 CommentsTags: amorphophallus titanum, dungeon synth, garden gnome, goatcraft
Shores of Null – The Loss of Beauty (2024)
The funderground tryhards forgot to create music in their quest for image, and the mainstreamer emoclones neutralize musical potential in order to be socially inoffensive, but nature is healing itself as Shores of Null make a hybrid between power metal, doom metal, and post-metal that promotes beauty.
4 CommentsTags: Doom Metal, power metal, shores of null
Sacramentum Releases The Coming of Chaos Remaster
Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype:
23 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sacramentum
