As part of its ongoing world tour, Beherit introduces a live set recorded with audio quality in mind for those who want to hear a medley of standouts from this band presented in a compact form.
9 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal
Solitvdo – Militia (2018)
Since it is being reissued, this album demands a revisit, which is fortunate because as metal casts around for a direction, Solitvdo present one option with their carefully-structured formalized style which periodically uses synthesized horns to present a martial and elegant front.
4 CommentsTags: Black Metal, solitvdo, War Metal
Sammath Re-Issues “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” demo (1997)
Following a massive US tour and rising interest in its latest full-length, Grebbeberg, Dutch-German war metallish black/death band Sammath unleashes a re-issue of its 1997 demo “De Ruïnes Fluisteren” via Docs Production.
95 CommentsTags: Black Metal, docs production, sammath
Beherit North American Tour 2025
Nature is healing. Beherit will be touring North America — New Yawk, Houston, Chitcago, Denver, Portland, probably SF, Los Angeles, and Mexico City — in 2025, delivering to black metal fans the resurgence of ancient spirit and sci-fi futurism that the genre has always proclaimed.
38 CommentsTags: beherit, Black Metal, shows
Sacramentum – The Coming of Chaos (Re-Mix 2024)
by Charles Alexander
The remix of The Coming of Chaos addresses production difficulties with a late release by a classic band, but struggles to overcome the hybrid of black metal and speed metal that was in vogue for a couple years but ultimately muddles the amazing composition within this album.
18 CommentsTags: Black Metal, sacramentum, Speed Metal
Havukruunu – Kuu Erkylän Yllä (2021)
Stick a bunch of Finns together in a winter war bunker with copies of Blood Fire Death and Under the Sign of the Black Mark, and you might get this imaginative band that stands astride black metal, speed metal, and epic heavy metal with an emphasis on changing atmosphere.
12 CommentsTags: Black Metal, havakruunu
Sacramentum Releases The Coming of Chaos Remaster
Century Media has taken a classic album and improved it by giving it production more like the first Sacramentum full-length. From the teletype:
23 CommentsTags: Black Metal, death metal, sacramentum
Black Funeral – Flames of Samūm (2024)
Every day, black metal tries to escape its past and get to the moment before that past when the why of black metal was clearer, because only from striving for that goal can black metal recapture its sense of beauty, melancholy, and transcendent balance of light and dark.
18 CommentsTags: black funeral, Black Metal
Sadistic Metal Reviews: WWIII and Regime Change Edition
As the world continues to burn itself through human arrogance, we turn to metal because we need a voice of an apocalypse that we would like to make triumphant. In destruction of the weaker, the stronger stands revealed. But first we have to remove the weak metal, which is why we have SMRs.
26 CommentsTags: Black Metal, clones, control, death metal, Nihilism, ramones, sadistic metal reviews, smr, social darwinism, sodomy
From Hades to Valhalla: Bathory The Epic Story by Jose Luis Cano Barron (2024)
By the time black metal and death metal made it back, the actual inspirations — Slayer, Hellhammer, Sodom, and Bathory — were almost forgotten in a rush toward the new style that was birthed from combining their approaches. Now the history fleshes itself out a bit.
115 CommentsTags: Bathory, Black Metal, book, jose luis cano barron, pagan records
