Black Metal

VOID OF REVERIES: BM GOES LATE 90S SCREAMO, SORTA?

Why does so much depressive black metal stuff sound like late 90s screamo shit, man?

A CARPATHIAN FOREST APPRECIATION POST

Fuck you all. Carpathian Forest and Nattefrost own shit.

CLAIR CASSIS: VELVET CACOON IS BACK WITH A NEW NAME

Velvet Cacoon is back with a new project that’s really more like a differently mastered version of the same deal.

SLEEPING PEONIES: LIGHTHOUSE ALIGHT, STARS ALIGNED

Fuck, this is the pussiest black metal I’ve probably ever heard in my life. But it’s still good.

GHAST: SICK BLACK/DOOM ON FLENSER

San Francisco’s Flenser has been bringin the heat lately with releases like Panopticon, and now Welsh metalheads Ghast. Available for the first time on vinyl, this double 12-inch “also features the tracks from GHAST’s sold-out 2007 split CD-R with the band Helvette.” So there’s that. But these dudes rip! Back and forth between melodic, crushing [...]

WORMLUST: SVARTHOL

Here’s some new shit from one of the trippiest, depressive black metal fucks out there.

WEEKLY PICKS: HAVOHEJ & TRUTH AND RIGHTS

Here are a few sick fucking bands we like this week.

NACHTMYSTIUM: HIGH ON HATE

Here’s another new heavy joint off of the new Nachtmystium set for release next week.

V.E.G.A.: 9 ROOMS

We’d usually assume that when Italian black metal, techno and goth converge it would be hella cheese, but such is not the case for this shit.

GAUHAERT: RAW CELTIC INSANITY FROM SOME DANISH FREAKS

These dudes make Celtic music for Satan or maybe Ray Allen.

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