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Ancst - Ghosts of the Timeless Void
By Hera Vidal. With seventeen releases under their belt, Ancst is one of the more prolific bands I have encountered. With their blend of crust, black metal, and political lyricism, this band have been...
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From The Metal Archives Vol. 7
[When I add labels to the Metal Labels on Bandcamp page I usually scan their releases looking for anything interesting I might have missed. The reviews on The Metal Archives are a great help when doing...
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Vallendusk - Homeward Path
By Hera Vidal. Vallendusk falls under the atmospheric black metal label, and while the subgenre can be stagnant at times, I always come back to it. Perhaps it’s the continued pursuit of seeing the...
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Kosmogyr - Eviternity
By Justin C. Kosmogyr is a two-man black metal outfit with one member in Prague and one in Shanghai. Luckily for all of us, bands like Gorguts and Kosmogyr are making it clear that long-distance...
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Darkest Era - Severance
By Calen Henry. Though Severance is almost four years old, now is a great time to revisit it. Darkest Era share an overall mood with Solstice and Primordial, the former just released their first album...
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Carpenter Brut - Leather Teeth
By Jeff Treppel. After a string of rapturously-received EP’s and a tour with Ghost that helped expose the synthwave sound to a wider audience, it was probably about time for Carpenter Brut to put out...
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Slaves BC - Lo, and I Am Burning
By Matt Hinch. Let's get something out of the way before we get into it here. If you look at the tags on Slaves B.C.'s latest, Lo, and I Am Burning you'll notice one is “christian”. Looking at the song...
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Gygax - 2nd Edition
By Dave Beaudoin. Hailing from Southern California and named for Gary Gygax, the creator of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), Gygax has always worn their influences on their sleeve. Their second album...
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Hinayana - Order Divine
By Majbritt Levinsen. Hinayana’s Order Divine is by far one of the most anticipated releases for me in recent time. So when I got a copy of the album in advance I hardly dared to push play! Would it...
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Furia - Księżyc milczy luty
By Hera Vidal. The more black metal continues to progress, the more it allows bands to experiment with both sound and technique. It allows these bands to break from the standard mold of black metal and...
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Death Toll 80k - Step Down
By Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. I return from another long spate of procrastination to bring you a look at one of grindcore's underrated gems. Now, one does not...
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Arkheth - 12 Winter Moons Comes the Witches Brew
By Steven Leslie. It’s no secret that it has become increasingly difficult to stand out amidst the ever flowing stream that is black metal these days. Good and even great albums are washed away under a...
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LvxCælis - The Watchers
By Hera Vidal. Every now and then, I come across Chilean metal, which I have learned to appreciate over the years, given how far removed I am from a country I identify with. I am not familiar with the...
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Frozen Gate - Behind the Dark Ice
By Hera Vidal. Frozen Gate are a band from Switzerland, which doesn’t bring up the image of black metal in the slightest. When I think of Switzerland, I think of Sybreed and Celtic Frost—one of the...
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Akvan - Forgotten Glory
By Hera Vidal. One of the most unlikely places that black metal would show up in would be in the Middle East. Plagued by war and, in many cases, strict religious laws, metal is not the sort of music...
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Zuriaake - Gu Yan
By Hera Vidal. China isn’t one of those countries I would consider to be very metal. For one thing, there’s censorship and Communism, and metal is one of those things I would consider to be very...
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Vallendusk - Fortress of Primal Grace
By Hera Vidal. About three weeks ago, I wrote about Vallendusk’s Homeward Path and I mentioned that the band has a comforting, atmospheric black metal appeal and a tendency for cohesiveness and musical...
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Primordial - Exile Amongst the Ruins
By Calen Henry. Exile Amongst the Ruins is Primordial's ninth album in their 27 year career. Sharpening with black metal menace the epic melancholy they share with Solstice and Darkest Era, they've...
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Anna von Hausswolff - Dead Magic
By Alain Mower. Anna von Hausswolff, the gem of Sweden's Experimental Pop scene, is only as difficult to describe musically as she is relentless in her pursuit of uncompromising creation of deep wells...
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Drudkh - They Often See Dreams About the Spring
By Alain Mower. Ukraine's premier Black Metal band Drudkh are also one of the most time honored and accomplished groups in the genre, with Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About the...
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