Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Black. Show all posts
Monday, August 17, 2026

Album Review: Craft - White Noise and Black Metal

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Craft was quiet for quite a while before this. Granted, they've been quiet since as well, but at least there is a precedent for it now. ...
Thursday, July 23, 2026

Album Review: Blood of the Wolf - V:Indomitable

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Chicago metal, underappreciated, yet undeterred. Despite receiving little to no love across the rest of this cursed land, the Second City is...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

Album Review: Coffret De Bijoux - My Limbs Are Not Mine

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Of all the tattered flesh shrouds and spectral shades she slips through, Coffret de Bijoux appears to be maturing into Alice Simard's m...
Monday, January 12, 2026

Album Review: 1349 - Massive Cauldron of Chaos

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Like most people who claim the ignoble mantle and nerd de plume of audiophile, I'm still catching up on releases from 2025 (formerly th...
Sunday, October 19, 2025

Album Review: 구룡 (Kuryong) - 백두의 소환 (Summoning of Paektu)

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I debated with myself long and hard about whether or not I wanted to say anything about this album, and in the end, the side of me that favo...
Saturday, October 18, 2025

Album Review: Abriction - Forbidden Bounds

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I've been thinking a lot more about death than usual. A couple of weeks ago something busted in the vent to the dryer in my house and to...
Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Album Review: Black Salvation - Uncertainty is Bliss

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Dark, heavy, seedy psychedelic rock out of Leipzig Germany. Uncertainty is Bliss is the Relapse Records debut of Black Salvation, the contro...
Friday, June 6, 2025

Album Review: Bereft - Lands

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Blackened sludge metal out of Madison, WI to give voice to a once sacred, now defiled and ravaged terrain, Bereft play a deeply atmospheric ...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Album Review: Ails - The Unraveling

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Ails was the second phase of vocalist Laurie Shanaman and guitarist Christy Cather’s life work of reshaping the American metal scene. The du...
Friday, November 8, 2024

Album Review: This Curse is Gift - A Throne of Ash

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Digging into the black, sodden wilds to find hexes and dark enclaves of deep aura with Swedish blackened hardcore oath-keepers, This Gift is...
Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Album Review: Possession - Exorkizein

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With a band like Belgium's Possession you could easily assume you know what to expect from them, but then I think you'd likely be wr...
Sunday, March 10, 2024

Album Review: Ragana - All's Lost

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Spring Colors Challenge - Day 10: California (the Color)* Revisiting Ragana's All's Lost is like going through old photos and find...
Friday, March 1, 2024

Album Review: Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman

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 Spring Colors Challenge - Day 1: Black* There has been for some time an inexplicable notion that I've carried with me about one-man, bl...
Monday, April 3, 2023

Metal Monday: Dryad, Hellion, Bones & Witch Vomit

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It's another Monday. A simple, terrible, miracle. A Monday. Time to get motivated for another week of grueling, meaningless effort as a ...
Monday, March 20, 2023

Metal Monday: Ninth Circle, Animalize, Soul Remnants, and Oxygen Destroyer

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It's another Metal Monday folks. That special moment every couple of weeks when I plug some metal releases that I've been listening ...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Metal Monday: Rolo Tomassi, Vanda, Warcoe & Lord Dying

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Alas, another Monday is upon us and I have therefore taken up the burden of trudging my way down to the belly of my metal vaults to retrieve...
Sunday, May 1, 2022

Album Review: Asenath Blake - Tribeckoning Songs

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I think there is more to a fear of the dark than meets the eye. Or, in this case, doesn't. The cold sweat that slickens your palms. The ...
Monday, January 31, 2022

Album Review: Homeskin - Integument Crystallization

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  Homeskin is a solo black metal project of audio engineer and heavy sound architect Garry Brents. I'm not sure what the intentions for ...