Posts Tagged ‘Melodic Black Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
If you have the balls to say “chilling-yet-breathtaking ruminations harken to the golden days of melodic, nature-inspired black metal, back during the mid ’90s. Names invoked include old Borknagar, Kvist, Arckanum, Old Man’s Child, Norway’s Gehenna, and even earliest Dimmu Borgir” in your promotional materials, you had better fucking back it up, and luckily the […]
Tags: 2022, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Primitive Reaction, Review, The Mist From The Mountains
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021
Huronian is an Italian band playing melodic blackened death metal. They released an ep in 2020 and those three songs make their way onto this debut album As Cold as a Stranger Sunset. 9 songs in 41 minutes. After a brief intro “Portals to the Unspeakable” blasts through the speakers with a great riff and […]
Tags: 2021, Dolorem Recordss, Frank Rini, Huronian, Melodic Black Metal, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, September 6th, 2021
“Our stories won’t be written with ink and mirth. But carved in flesh and the soul of the earth. The whispers of the wind will cease to be. All we hear is the wailing of the oceans plea” – “The Archive”. Arkivet (Archive) is the third album from stellar, fast-rising new Swedish melodic black metal […]
Tags: 2021, Black Lodge, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Wormwood
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Wednesday, July 7th, 2021
Some day we’ll be able to look back at the pandemic and fully realize some of the good things that came out of it. For one – it was a fantastic reminder that, in general, people are fucking gross, and their personal hygiene is not to be trusted. Ever. Remember in the beginning of it […]
Tags: 2021, Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Noctule, Serena Cherry, Skyrim, Svalbard, Translation Loss Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Someone really wants to be on The Artisan Era. I mean, look at that logo, cover and the music fits the label perfectly being a shreddy melodic form of polished, surgical, blackened, technical death metal that’s in line with the likes of Inferi and such. At that someone is Ric Galvez, who plays all the […]
Tags: 2021, Erik T, Malice Divine, Melodic Black Metal, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, December 23rd, 2020
Some three years have elapsed since we last heard from rising Italian crew Shores of Null. Following a confident, hook-laden debut in 2014’s Quiescence, the band’s 2017 follow-up, Black Drapes for Tomorrow, while solid, struggled to capitalise on their impressive first act. Nevertheless, Shores of Null possess an intriguing sound, a brooding mix of melancholic […]
Tags: 2020, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Shores of Null, Spikerot Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
When it comes to Inexorum, I purchased Lore of the Lakes without hearing a single note, simply based off the description and the high praise of critics. While I did enjoy the album, I was kept from thoroughly enjoying it for one reason: electronic drums. In a lot of instances, they’re fine, barely noticeable, and […]
Tags: 2020, Gilead Media, Inexorum, J Mays, Melodic Black Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Thursday, June 18th, 2020
There must be a huge Finnish or Scandinavian poplace or cultural influence in Canada right? Other wise why is there such a surprisingly large amount of solid Finnish sounding epic/folk/viking bands there? Blackguard/Profugus Mortis, Crimson Shadows, Vesperia/Bolero, Battlesoul. Will of the Ancients, Nordheim, Valfreya just to name a few. Well, add Vancouver’s Atavistia to that […]
Tags: 2020, Atavistia, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › N on Monday, May 18th, 2020
To this day, I still absolutely love Naglfar’s first two albums and Vittra and Diabolical remain two of my very favorite 90s melodic black metal albums. And while 2003 Sheol was a worthy follow up, with the departure of vocalist Jens Ryden, the band fell into a bit of a rut with subsequent albums Pariah, […]
Tags: 2020, Century Media Records, Erik T, Melodic Black Metal, Naglfar, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, October 8th, 2019
Last year, I reviewed the fourth album, Emptiness Fills the Void, (Non Serviam Records) from this Swiss melodic black metal band, And was rather impressed with band’s tight, modern take on classic Scandinavian (Dissection, Naglfar, Catamenia, Dawn etc) melodic black metal from the 90s. So when I heard Non Serviam Records was reissuing the band’s […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, Melodic Black Metal, Non Serviam Records, Review, Stortregn
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, August 12th, 2019
In my review of Falls of Rauros‘ last record, Vigilance Perennial, I stated: 1) I was listening to something special, and 2) how can that top that album (which was my number 3 album of 2017)?. Well, despite switching from perfectly suited label in Bindrune to lesser known but also solid Gilead Media, they have […]
Tags: 2019, Atmospheric Black Metal, Bargain Bin Reviews, E.Thomas, Falls of Rauros, Gilead Media, Melodic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Tuesday, June 25th, 2019
Sühnopfer (German for ‘Atonement’) is a French, one man black metal project featuring Ardraos, who has been around a while and has surfaced in a number of well known and lesser known French bands like Peste Noire, Aorlhac, Veratyr, Endymion, Antrum Mortis and others. This project, while productive with 2 full lengths and various demos […]
Tags: 2019, Debemur Morti Productions, E.Thomas, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Sühnopfer
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Thursday, June 20th, 2019
Last year I went through a pretty hardcore phase of melodic black metal where I was listening to classic like Dissection, Catamenia, Vinterland, and Sacramentum, as well as newer bands like Thormesis, Vindland, Wormwood and Störtregn. Somehow though, I completely overlooked Sweden’s Istapp (“icicle”) and their 2010 album, Blekinge and 2015 album, Frostbitten. But that has […]
Tags: 2019, Istapp, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Trollzorn Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › T on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
The fourth album from Germany’s Thormesis, Freier Wille – Freier Geist, was my first exposure to this band, but that album was on and off my year end list for 2015, though it ultimately didn’t make the cut. The follow up, 2017s Trümmerfarben, didn’t strike me as positively for some reason and I didn’t even review […]
Tags: 2019, E.Thomas, MDD Records, Melodic Black Metal, Review, Thormesis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, February 20th, 2019
I’ve always been pretty knowledgeable when it comes to heavy/extreme metal and all its facets. All through my life, my fellow metalhead friends have referred to me as a metal encyclopedia. Like many die-hard metalheads, my affiliation with the genre has always been one from a “love and collect” aspect as opposed to merely a […]
Tags: Absence Betrayal, Melodic Black Metal, Metal Renaissance Records, Self-Released, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Monday, June 15th, 2015
It has been more than a thousand years since the minstrels, troubadours, and minnesingers of the Middle Ages strummed their lutes and cooed their poetry to eager and usually royal ears. Obsequiae, if they could travel back to those days, would have lulled the lords and ladies of court into wondrous reverie with a gentle opener […]
Tags: 20 Buck Spin, 2015, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Black Metal, Obsequaie, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
An oubliette, from the French word ‘oublier’ – to forget – is a dungeon. A particularly horrible and lonely sort of dungeon, little more than a hole in the ground. In you go, curled and cramped, and then a lid or stone is slid across the opening, trapping you in blackness while your body succumbs to pain, hunger, […]
Tags: 2014, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Black Metal, Melodic Death/Doom, Oubliette, Review, The Artisan Era
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
Naglfar’s second album, Diabolical, is still one of the most successful ‘cold’ purchases I’ve ever made. And by cold, I don’t mean frosty black metal, although that obviously applies. No, in this case, I mean that I’d never heard the band before, and bought the album on a whim. This was back in 1999, the […]
Tags: 2012, Century Media Records, Jordan Itkowitz, Melodic Black Metal, Naglfar, Review