History will not remember war metal well, since it took aspects of black metal and intensified them but in doing so, missed the point of the atmosphere and sense of a world changing in parallax, where it drifts backward as time thrusts us forward, that black metal captured.
1 CommentTags: Black Metal, castiga
Metal is very unique as a genre in that the creative prime comes very early in one’s career and often for some bands that means that the first demo in a long career will be their crowning achievement. For Rob Darken this would come much later as there were many missteps on the road to Thousand Swords.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, graveland, necromanteion, rob darken
Sorcier Des Glaces released a trailer for its new album Un Monde de Glace et de Sang to be released in October 2020 on CD by Obscure Abhorrence Productions and on cassette through Dread Records.
No CommentsTags: Black Metal, sorcier des glaces
Often the demo speaks louder because ideas remained at their core, instead of becoming infiltrated and confused with aesthetics, market positioning (including the market of popularity among the underground), label demands, technicalities, and other confusions.
20 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum
Melodic atmospheric black metal band Wiking 1940 releases its latest album, W, on April 28, 2020, but has allowed one track, “Acquainted with the dead,” to escape in advance. This solitary song shows a melodic yet recursive style similar to Infamous or Rotting Christ.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, wiking 1940
Vampyric/Ooccult black metal veterans Black Funeral released a single entitled “Kassaptu Lemuttu (Incantations of Zaqiqu-Demons of the Underworld)” in preparation for their upcoming album entitled Scourge of Lamashtu, set to be released on July 3rd throughIron Bonehead Productions.
2 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
Hosts of Lord are an interesting curiosity, a Christian Black metal band hailing from the USA but rather than taking standard Noregian second wave and adding Christian lyrics, sole member Μαθθίας takes influence from the short lived and for the most part left alone French scene. While current the French Black metal scene has discarded its greats in favour of more commercial strands or Deathspell Omega like dissonance, Hosts of Lord attempt to channel the self-destructive and truly misanthropic tendencies of their influences into eschatological predictions of the future.
19 CommentsTags: Black Metal, hosts of lord, LLN, Prophetic Visions of Harrowing Despair
Tales of Dhvaras formerly known as Dhvaras are a Norwegian Black metal that released a brief demo in 1994 before quickly disbanding. Twenty six years later the band have reformed to give new life to this material with greater maturity and better recording methods.
5 CommentsTags: Black Metal, power metal, Speed Metal, tales of dhvaras
Antisocial and violent black metal band Sammath unleashed a video of the band playing in Moscow, using the track “Ferocious Mortar Fire” from Across the Rhine is only death as the canvas for a newly elitist and intolerant sound. Expect all of the violent of war metal, with the precision of death metal, and the melody of black metal.
8 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sammath, War Metal
A Fine Day to Die Records will re-issue the classic album Impergium and corresponding EP Towards Judgement by Niden Div. 187 as a limited cassette release, and is currently taking pre-orders.
3 CommentsTags: Black Metal, niden div. 187
