Black Metal
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Album of the Week 10-2023: Sigh – Shiki
Ask anyone to describe the sound of Japanese black metal pioneers Sigh and chances are “weird”…
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Album of the Week 06-2023: Cradle of Filth – Cruelty and the Beast
Full disclosure: when I first heard ‘Cruelty and the Beast’ as an early teenager, I absolutely…
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Album of the Week 05-2023: Rotting Christ – Aealo
Rotting Christ is a band whose music has transcended multiple things throughout the years. Most notably…
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Album of the Week 50-2021: Thulcandra – A Dying Wish
Influential as their combination of equal parts black metal and melodic death metal has been, not…
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Album of the Week 43-2021: Primordial – To The Nameless Dead
When metal bands choose to season their music with Celtic folk elements, it often turns out…
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Album of the Week 41-2021: Necrophobic – Dawn Of The Damned
The combination of black metal and death metal is a potentially interesting one, as the black…
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Album of the Week 40-2021: Enslaved – Utgard
Enslaved is one of the most interesting bands in the contemporary landscape of extreme and progressive…
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Album of the Week 01-2020: Dark Fortress – Venereal Dawn
When bands rooted in black metal branch out, labelling them can become an issue. There are…
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Album of the Week 51-2019: The Vision Bleak – The Unknown
Gothic rock’s mournful melodies and doom metal’s crushing heaviness appear to be made for each other,…
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