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Goatwhore – Blood For The Master
Posted on January 29, 2012 | No Comments
If you don’t know Goatwhore, the fact that they were named Best Hard Rock/ Metal Artist of 2010 at The Big Easy Awards last April should impress you. It should impress you enough to go out and pick up Blood for the Master when it...
Throne of Katarsis – Ved Graven
Posted on January 26, 2012 | No Comments
Black metallers from Norway know as Throne of Katarsis is somewhat unknown by most people. If you look for them on the web you are likely to come across their website which is labelled “Unholy Black Metal”, which in my opinion is an oxymoron in...
Opera IX – Strix Maledicte In Aeternum
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No Comments
Opera IX‘s newest release is entitled “Strix Maledicte In Aeternum.” Loosely translated is a vampiric evil spirit that curses you for all eternity. Heavy. So you go into this expecting it to be a total downer. Suprisingly, the album isn’t as maudlin as one would...
Abigail Williams – Becoming
Posted on January 7, 2012 | No Comments
US based extreme metal band Abigail Williams have always been something of an enigma to me. They have always had a wilfulness to them- right back to their original quasi-metalcore roots through to the black metal extemporizing that they have become most notable for. There...
George And Kerry Of Deafheaven Talk To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on December 28, 2011 | No Comments
Bay Area darlings Deafheaven were one 2011′s more pleasant surprises. A poetic union of post-rock, shoegaze and black metal captured the attention of the entire metal community, and a successful tour with Russian Circles stole the hearts of their fans. Debut album “Roads to Judah,”...
Enthroned Signs To Agonia Records
Posted on December 16, 2011 | No Comments
Belgian black metallers Enthroned has two full-length releases on the horizon after signing a deal with Polish label Agonia Records. The black metal combo recently finished recording their follow-up album to “Pentagrammaton” (out on Regain Records in 2010). It is expected for an early 2012...
Pest From Gorgoroth talks to ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on November 27, 2011 | No Comments
ThisIsNotAScene finally caught up with Gorgoroth for a quick chat, Ro and Pest talked about the band’s line-up, album titles in Latin, custom-made arm guards and more. Tormentor and Tomas Asklund do not tour with the band. Who do you have covering for them in...
Valkyrja Talk To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on November 26, 2011 | No Comments
As the shadows of evening drew over the bustle of Manchester city centre, ThisIsNotAScene ventured off the beaten track to Moho Live, the willing host of the Under the Sign of Hell tour, to seek out Sweden’s purveyors of aural violence – Valkyrja. Vocalist A...
Absu, Infernal Stronghold & Villains At Club Europa, Brooklyn 11/11/11
Posted on November 16, 2011 | No Comments
The neckbeards gathered at Club Europa, Brooklyn on November 11th celebrated National Metal Day the right way: with a metal show. On the menu was local Villains, Philadelphia’s Infernal Stronghold, and black metal sorcerers Absu, who recently released the second instalment of their enigmatic trilogy,...
Venom – Fallen Angels
Posted on November 12, 2011 | 1 Comment
I love Venom. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t love Venom, the band that single handedly and unintentionally created the genre we know as “black metal.” “Welcome to Hell,” Venom’s bold, coarse debut, introduced the world to Satan, and remains one of my favorite albums...
Sunn O))) – “Double O Void” (Re-issue)
Posted on November 11, 2011 | No Comments
“Double O Void” was the second album recorded by Sunn O))) around 2000. At that time the band featured Stephen O’Malley and Greg Anderson, and on this release they were joined by Stuart Dahlquist (Goatsnake, Burning Witch), Petra Haden and Pete Stahl. For those readers...
Peste Noire – L’Ordure a l’etat Pur
Posted on November 10, 2011 | No Comments
Peste Noire has always been a hard pill to swallow. This grotesquely raw outfit out of Avignon, France has always embraced the uglier side of black metal. The face of Peste Noire is former Alcest member La Sale Famine de Valfunde, a maniacal and possibly...
James O’Ceallaigh Of Altar Of Plagues Talks To ThisIsNotAScene
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
ThisIsNotAScene finally caught up with James O’Ceallaigh of Altar of Plagues after their blistering set at Damnation Festival 2011. Having subsequently been lost in the venue for a few hours the guitarist/keyboardist was ready to collapse into an arm chair and talk about ignoring reviews,...
1349 – Demonoir (Limited Edition Box-set Reissue)
Posted on November 7, 2011 | No Comments
Norwegian black metal legends 1349 recently released a re-issue of their fifth studio album, “Demonoir”, as well as packaging it in a limited edition box-set (1000 world-wide) with bonus tracks and live tracks. I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t pick up Tom “unGh” Warrior produced...
Glorior Belli – The Great Southern Darkness
Posted on October 30, 2011 | No Comments
A band that mixes the sound of desert rock with the ‘brutal, ominous, doom laden vibe typical of black metal’, how could I not be interested. French four piece Glorior Belli, consisting of the mysteriously named J (guitar & vocals), H (guitar), T (bass) and...
Absu – Abzu
Posted on October 24, 2011 | No Comments
Sumerian mythology and the work of HP Lovecraft are heavily revered in the extreme metal section. From Metallica (okay, that’s not extreme metal, besides from being extremely boring metal) to Morbid Angel, pretty much every band has dabbled with the old tales in some way...
Ordo Obsidium – Orbis Tertius
Posted on October 22, 2011 | No Comments
I would like to thank Bay Area cult Ordo Obsidium for finally slapping me out of my writer’s block, a paralyzing sense of laziness and fear that has been plaguing me for the past two weeks. “Orbis Tertius”, their impressive debut, was exactly what I...
Einherjer – Norrøn
Posted on October 13, 2011 | No Comments
Norway’s Einherjer label their music Old School Viking metal and see themselves as the originators of the genre – being among the first to introduce Nordic mythology to metal. This claim might take many fans of the genre by surprise – as most consider (correctly or otherwise) more...
Nachtblut – Antik
Posted on October 11, 2011 | No Comments
“Dark metal” is an attempt to categorize that exists only to frustrate and annoy people like me. Is it gothic metal? Is it DSBM? Is it a nice way of saying “this band is not cool enough to be black metal?” According to last.fm, Moonspell, Bethlehem, Rotting Christ,...
Thulcandra – Under A Frozen Sun
Posted on October 3, 2011 | No Comments
I had never heard of German melodic death metal act Thulcandra until the release of “Under A Frozen Sun”, their follow up to 2010’s debut “Fallen Angel’s Dominion”. Doing some research, the one thing that stood out was a bevy of comparisons of this 2003-formed...