Tag: black metal
SCUM DIVISION rises from the roiling black filth
Festering in Western Canada’s underground, the vile collective known as Scum Division conspires its next move. Volley after volley of ugly, nihilistic, non-music rages forth from this addled assembly of lunatics. Their outputs feels like …
ELIJAH TAMU reveals his rare & unique methodology of worship – Part 2
In an additional twist, we revealed the first part of Elijah Tamu’s massive interview on Walpurgisnacht earlier this year. The artist was kind enough indulge us with a multiple page correspondence that revealed much of …
WITCHES HAMMER return with the elixir from the afterlife on “Damnation is My Salvation”
The ongoing existence of extreme metal is in its ability to constantly rewrite the rules of old styles and create new chapters of its existence. Within its limitations it can only be pushed to a …
ELIJAH TAMU delivers a sermon enlightening his antithetical Orthodox art – Part 1
The notion of contrast is a foundational element to all that is substantial. The negative space begets the bodies alive within it, and the darkness of void only makes the light held inside shine that …
GENE PALUBICKI (Angelcorpse, Perdition Temple, etc): Antichrist Victorious! Full Video Interview
Needing very little introduction, Gene Palubicki stands upon a great legacy of black/death metal supremacy. Founder of the almighty Angelcorpse, Gene has since been responsible for a constant track record of total savagery with his …
HISSING disavows catharsis to embrace suffering
Modern death metal has gone through yet another resurgence of heightened invigoration in the last few years, with a particular concentration of perpetuating and reimagining ‘old school’ elements, and to magnificent effect. When death metal …
TEITANBLOOD signals absolute Armageddon with “The Baneful Choir”
A society is reflected in the artistry it yields, and thereby we are sometimes able to see its face more clearly than any government or social movement could ever encapsulate. Like a mirror into the …
BLACK EARTH deliver a Pandora’s Box of torturous perfection on “Gnarled Ritual of Self Annihilation”
Fans of Abruptum and Gnaw Their Tongues take note! Black Earth present us with their sophomore release that can only be described as schizophrenia given form. Densely layered waves of noise, chaos, and pure black …
MEFITIS savagely ambush with a twisted, diabolic campaign on “Emberdawn”
2019 has seen massive releases and live acts of metal titans, such gods as Blut Aus Nord and the highly anticipated release of quickly medaled veterans Blood Incantation, but there are acts slipping through the …
BLACK DEATH CULT has manifested the sanity destroying, psychedelic egregore “Devil’s Paradise”
How often does something take you off guard, to such a point that you aren’t even sure you like it or hate it? The very nature of the thing strays from accepted paradigms and into …