Czech black metallers Root have a new album coming out next month.
4 CommentsTags: agonia records, Black Metal, Czech black metal, Heavy Metal, Root, upcoming release
Peste Noire Booted From Blastfest Due to Antifa Nags
French modern black metal band Peste Noire was booted from the Blastfest 2017 festival to be held in Bergen, Norway next February after anonymous Antifa complaints.
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Tags: antifa, antifascist, Black Metal, Blastfest, communists, festivals, metalgate, peste noire, sjws
Demoncy – Faustian Dawn (1993, reissued 2016)
Article by Lance Viggiano.
A minor boost- so as not to be outdone by diminishing financial returns – in fidelity reveals that the tonal direction which Demoncy would use to conjure the singularity known as Joined in Darkness had begun to break through the thin trebly aether early on. Faustian Dawn sees a young mage wielding uncharacteristic competence during its initiatory rites; though not without a share of exuberant amateurism. Drawing from the tomes of Von, Beherit and Profanatica – the track “As Tears of Blood Stain the Altar of Christ” makes an appearance here re-titled – Demoncy finds itself offering a unique vision which recalls primordial humans cloaked by tawdry rags locked away from evolution by a compulsory participation in invocatory rites amidst humid rather than the more characteristically frigid backgrounds.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, demoncy, Faustian Dawn, nuclear war now! productions, nwn, reissue, remaster, review
Varg on Tributes and Toxicity
Varg Vikernes expressed how he felt about tributes to Burzum and the toxicity of the Norwegian black metal scene centered around Euronymous of Mayhem in a new black metal history video to this ThuleanPerspective Youtube channel. Varg stated that the tribute bands are creatively inspired by him:
86 CommentsTags: Black Metal, burzum, Euronymous, metal history, norway, Norwegian Black Metal, varg vikernes, youtube
Graveland Announce 1050 Years of Pagan Cult
Graveland announced a new album of studio rerecordings of prior material and premiered a new music video for “Thousand Swords” on their Facebook page. 1050 Years of Pagan Cult comes out this November.
7 CommentsTags: 1050 Years of Pagan Cult, Black Metal, graveland, Heavy Metal, melodic black metal, music video, poland, rerecording, upcoming release
Futile Exercises in Futility
Article by Anton Rudrick.
Mgła provides us with a perfect example to round a trio of examples that together shape the main misunderstandings as to what black metal is through their misrepresentation of it in either carelessness or ignorance. While modern Watain plays a completely undefined mixture of incoherent tropes around a stomping heavy rock that never condenses into anything original, and modern Behemoth is a shock rock outfit with sterile tekdeaf (modern technical “death metal”) techniques, Mgła is the one that closest comes to black metal by its purposely limited form closely resembling it. However, at best it could be said that they are a musically poor black metal band devoid of the traditional character that fuels the adversarial music, and at worst it could be classified as a post metal band experimenting with close variations on a very simple theme.
26 CommentsTags: 2015, Black Metal, boring, exercises in futility, Mgła, poland, post-hardcore, post-metal, re-review, review
Sarcasm – Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds Coming in March
Swedish death/black metal band Sarcasm‘s first LP, Within the Sphere of Ethereal Minds, is coming out in March as announced on their Facebook page. The band’s Burial Dimensions demo compilation was extremely promising but featured too many in-congruent keyboard interludes and too much fat that needed trimming.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, dark descent, dark descent records, death metal, sarcasm, Sweden, upcoming release
Upcoming In Mordor Where The Shadows Are: Homage to Summoning
A three CD Summoning tribute album of covers is coming out this December from Wolfspell Records.
7 CommentsTags: Black Metal, compact disc, covers, Summoning, tribute album, upcoming release, Wolfspell Records
Mail Call: Infamous and Kshatriya
Metalheads love going to the post office. This is established fact; we are either sending off dubs or trades, or going there to receive a package full of music. Like most anti-social types, we do not trust centralized authorities like iTunes or major labels, so mostly our music comes in physical form. We like it that way.
27 CommentsTags: Black Metal, eremita produzioni, infamous, Kshatriya, solitudo, solitvdo, vsque ad sidera vsque ad inferos, warnungstraum
Frontschwein Folly
Article by David Rosales
Marduk has never, with the exception of the laudable Opus Nocturne, boasted of a deep mystical aura imbuing their music and has rather been known for the sonic onslaught which is their music. The present work sees a band that appears to have long settled for a style and seem content to reproduce it for the benefit of an expecting audience. That is, a very palpable pop mentality has settled in, even if the music has not completely degenerated in form. The artistic vision nonetheless has affected, as is the rule, the manifested aesthetic of the music, and will predictably continue to corrode its quality as it has been doing for the past twenty years or so.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Frontschwein, marduk, pop metal, re-review, review, War Metal
