Year: 2025Label: Altare Productions/Purity Through Fire We’ve come a long way from the inception of black metal, from the days when a one-sided satanic outlook was an absolute necessity for the genre. I don’t think an album inspired by the … Continue reading PRIEURÉ: Jusqu’au Bénitier
Year: 2024Label: Rebellion Records Rebellion Records are really ushering into a new era of crossover as of late – or maybe label owner Wouter is, more like. His band Live By The Sword has been pushing the envelope of how … Continue reading HEATHEN PEACE: Civilisation Ends Here…
Something a bit different in our series of gems from the archives – but no less deserving of an entry: the first book attempting to give an overview of the phenomenon called black metal. The book by Michael Moynihan (of … Continue reading From the Vaults #14: Lords of Chaos
Release year: 2017/2024Label: Iron Bonehead Productions/Misantropia Records Whilst certainly not unheard of, all-female and female solo black metal projects are still a relative scarcity. Everyone who’s been involved in black metal since the 90’s will probably remember Greek Astarte, and … Continue reading IESCHURE: The Shadow
IGNIS MORTIS: Hæresis Maleficarum Release year: 2024Label: Hammer Of Hate Records Formed from the ashes of a previous group called Evil Might, Finnish Ignis Mortis may be newcomers but they’re certainly no greenhorns: the trio’s collective CV within black metal … Continue reading The fires of death burn
ANDRACCA: To Bare The Weight Of Death Release year: 2024Label: Vendetta Records Would you be surprised to hear the UK act Andracca’s second album has a tricky title? The digital promo had the name tagged as To Bear The Weight … Continue reading Regarding the weight of death
TALVI: Complete Works ’01-’22 & Solstice Collection ’99-’02/’23 Release year: 2023Label: self-released Way back in the very early noughties, Finnish label Spinefarm (at the time home of acts such as Children Of Bodom and Barathrum) had a number of record … Continue reading Winter in the dungeons
KVAD: So Old Release year: 2023Label: Purity Through Fire As anyone and everyone will know, Norwegian black metal is a bit of a thing. Not just the fact that once upon a time, a bunch of Norwegian teens spearheaded the … Continue reading Amidst Kvad’s thunder and demonic ecstasy
Only Death Is Real 