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 mood-shifting textural structure. Katavasia attempts to return to black metal with heavy metal roots like Varathron, from which it borrowed personnel.
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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 that much of the underground wishes it could, combining black metal and war metal with doom metal and death metal to create a constantly changing mood within a fluid style. Fortunately, guitarist/composer Jan Kruitwagen had a few moments to give us his take on the band and state of the metal genre.
2 CommentsTags: Black Metal, jan kruitwagen, kaeck, War Metal
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, this band open the door to a new world.
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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 feathery but harshly distorted vocals, and from this world they create a ritual.
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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, some of these documentaries prove rather interesting.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, Enslaved
Exploring the New Wave of Sentimental Black Metal (NWSBM) pioneered by bands like Fourth Monarchy, Black Funeral, and Infamous, Grandeur mixes a bit of power metal consonance and whole scale positivity into the end of its long riffs and melancholic dirges, but works within the late black metal template.
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Hear a tale of the long chronicle of releases of Varathron demos and rarities.
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People like what is mentally easy because it requires the least amount of risk, since they want to avoid change, which carries with it the risk of misreading reality and therefore failing. Of all the sad cries of humans, “look for the lost diamonds of the past” may be the saddest, simply because it is mentally lazy.
No CommentsTags: black crucifixion, Black Metal
These antiquated tapes came out of an ancient closet, were remastered on modern equipment, and serve as interest only to Beherit fanatics who want to see how this band grasped for a clue about songwriting during the early days.
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In my observation, humans screw up on both sides of the Bell Curve: the dumb pound out repetitive emotions, and the intelligent do everything right like good A+ students according to what they see around them, making a repetition of what already exists.
3 CommentsTags: aethyrick, Black Metal
