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Bokkerijders: Crush Kill Destroy Out 23rd October on Personal Records The debut album from this Belgium outfit smuggles in a surprisingly broad sweep of meditative, melodic, emotive black metal beneath a superficial façade of old school speed metal.
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Hænesy: Esentia Out 25th September on Purity Through Fire Five years ago this Hungarian outfit presented an interesting proposition with ‘Garabontzia’, a black metal album crafted almost entirely from clean, reverb drenched guitar lines, working their way…
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Critical Defiance: Rivers of Blood Out 25th September on Dying Victims Productions 2024 was the year Critical Defiance suddenly caught the attention of a broader international audience with ‘The Search Won’t Fall…’, a finely crafted treat of frenetic thra…
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Krolok: Hričov – Súľov – Lietava Out 25th September on Osmose Productions Slovakia’s Krolok continue to grow into their skin with this third offering.
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Book report – Melancology: black metal theory and ecology Dominik Irtenkauf: [black metal theory] seems to be more about speculative interpretations of a musical sub-culture than developing a coherent system of theory.
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Decay Out 25th September on Relapse Records Hellfest 2010 was a pretty special festival.
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Hail Conjurer: Abyss & Ekstasis Out 23rd September on Into Endless Chaos Records / Crypt of the Wizard Over several albums, Finland’s Hail Conjurer have been offering curiously deconstructive takes on black metal, pivoting on doom metal pacing, depressive…
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What does the metalhead do on their day off and why is it ambient?
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What does the metalhead do on their day off and why is it ambient?
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Mittags-Abgrund: Mittags-Abgrund Out 15th September on Darkness Shall Rise Productions True to the legacy of Russian black metal, this is a piece of impeccably landscaped material, conjuring a fully scoped out environment before our eyes, vast and inhospi…
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In a follow up to our episode on US Power Metal, Joseph walks me through the more obscure corners of 80s European Heavy Metal.
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V bažinách vědomí Out 10th September on Me Saco Un Ojo / Dark Descent Records It’s been a long time coming, but finally Czechia’s Sněť deliver on the second album.
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Why millennials can’t grow up, and why this matters It’s a self-evident truth that young people do things incorrectly.
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Summer festival season has wrapped up, so Shelley and Joseph take the temperature of the festival circuit.
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Atomic Aggressor: The Occult Forces Out 28th August on Hells Headbangers With a history stretching back to the mid-80s, Atomic Aggressor are arguably one of the first to enter Chile’s death metal race along with Pentagram.
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Rahaty: Bestial Lustmord Out 28th August on Sentient Ruin Another attempt to bleed the deathgrind sponge dry without refreshing the underlying template.
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Ceremonial Worship: Between Sleep and Death Out 31st July on Eternal Death Undergoing something of an orchestral refit since their previous offering ‘Seven Gateways to Eternal Misanthropy’, the promo blurb accompanying this Greek’s outfit’s latest offering
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Hulder: Verbolgen Out 7th August on Season of Mist/20 Buck Spin Arranging the history of black metal into waves is a method as arbitrary as it is useful.
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Vafurlogi: Gneisti af eldi Guðs Out 26th June on NoEvDia/Oration True to the spirit of Icelandic black metal, this is a rhythmically informal, cyclically structured set of layered guitar chords defined by loose dissonance and overlapping main themes that…
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Sepulcrum: Lacerator Out 24th July on Chaos Records Chile’s Sepulcrum land the second album with ease, delivering a near perfect elaboration on 2023’s ‘Lamentations of Immolated Souls’ without over stretching themselves.
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A closer look at specific metal tracks at the granular level, this week we look at Burzum’s ‘Key to the Gate’, and unpack why Burzum’s music is integral to understanding the essence of black metal to this day.
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Sallow Moth: Hydrophilous Brood Out 24th July on Willowtip Records Surrealist brutal death metal redrafts elements of ‘Obscura’ and post 2000s Suffocation, but as with most contemporary avant-garde progressive extreme metal, it conflates stylistic inconti…
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Towards Rebirth Out 24th July on Dark Descent Records With its roots in Merciless or Massacra, but growing branches out to death metal with a more developed melodic palette comes the latest album from Chile’s Ripper.