Black Metal – Page 4 – The Sound Projector

14/09/2022 nausika

Ocularchy: occult-themed war metal with a blackened punk / industrial edge

Graal, Ocularchy, Canada, self-released, cassette (2022) Despite the alarming artwork on their debut album and the violent nature of their

08/09/2022 nausika

Fever Collapse: harsh noise industrial electronics and dark ambient describing a world in breakdown

Absolute Key, Fever Collapse, France, Asylum Tenebris, cassette (2022) I only discovered Absolute Key and its prolific output very recently

29/08/2022 nausika

Red Heaven: a powerful style of depressive black metal / post-BM beauty

Ebola, Red Heaven, Japan, Zero Dimensional Records, ZDR083 CD (2022) The front cover artwork of Ebola’s “Red Heaven” album featuring

19/08/2022 nausika

Louhi: a work of beautiful if monotonous atmospheric BM / dark folk immersion

Käärmekristus, Louhi, Death Monument, CD-R (2021) Inspired by the evil witch character Louhi of the Kalevala is this album of

09/08/2022 nausika

Celestial Woods: a paradox of rich and lush yet icy and harsh atmospheric / post-black metal / ambient soundscape immersion

Raat, Celestial Woods, Italy, Flowing Downwards, Flow044, CD (2022) Following after second album “Raison d’Etre”, released in late 2020, and

20/07/2022 nausika

Aavikon Varjo: Finnish outsider black metal duo still strong with 20th album

Circle of Ouroborus, Aavikon varjo, China, Goatawarex, WAXGOAT203 2 x vinyl LP (2022) Never would I have thought, when I

12/07/2022 nausika

The Might of Waves: oceanic ambient black metal with a raw noisy edge

Uzlaga, The Might of Waves, United Kingdom, Blackmetalgram, BLAME004 limited edition cassette (2022) I’d been impressed enough by Uzlaga’s earlier

10/07/2022 nausika

Ad Chao: I: a harsh, mesmeric Indonesian raw BM debut demo

Ignis Serpentis, Ad Chao: I, United States, Banner of Blood, BOB-031 cassette (2022) The French Black Legions bands of the

01/07/2022 nausika

Fictions: raw experimental black metal inspired by Borges’s literary universe

Reflet Crépusculaire, Fictions, United States, Witchcult Records, WC043 limited edition cassette (2022) Inspired by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges’s short

21/06/2022 nausika

Consecration of the Spiritus Flesh: intense blackened death psychedelia of nihilism and despair in a collapsing society

Esoctrilihum, Consecration of the Spiritüs Flesh, Italy, I, Voidhanger Records, CD A5 digipak (2022) Up to his seventh album for