Nekrasov, Extinction, Crucial Blast Records, CD CBR86 (2010) Australian BM artist Nekrasov creates a powerful and bleak work of humanity’s
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Dextronaut: showcase of distinctive and deranged black metal pop songs
Velvet Cacoon, Dextronaut, Khrysanthoney Records, CD (2010) The version of Velvet Cacoon’s first album under review is the one released
Continue readingWithin: hellish and enthralling fusion ambient black metal / industrial drone soundscapes
Ithi, Within, Land of Decay, cassette catalog 024 (2011) Here’s a dark, creepy ambient soundscape cassette release from a duo consisting
Continue readingThe Path of Liberation from Birth to Death: an epic and majestic soundtrack of buzzing, noisy black metal fusion
Njiqahdda, The Path of Liberation from Birth to Death, US, Pagan Flames Records, CD (2011) Where to begin? Here be a complex album of
Continue readingHands That Pluck: not quite the sterling send-off it could have been
Caïna, Hands That Pluck, Profound Lore Records, 2xCD PFL-082 (2011) This double CD set is Caïna’s swansong release and what a way
Continue readingOskoreien: self-titled debut heralds a new player in Cascadian black metal
Oskoreien, Oskoreien, Pest Productions, CD PEST048 (2010) “Oskoreien” is an intriguing addition to the world of nature-oriented Cascadian black metal,
Continue readingEcailles de Lune: very pretty black metal / shoegazer pop
Alcest, Ecailles de Lune, Germany Prophecy Productions CD PRO 106 (2010) Bands like Alcest sure do like to mock the
Continue readingUnder the Eye: slurpy and eccentric black metal that’s open to other music genres
Ride for Revenge, Under the Eye, KVLT Records, CD KVLT004 (2011) Finnish act Ride for Revenge traffic in a filthy-sounding,
Continue readingEffigies and Epitaphs: black metal meets melodic flamenco guitar
Petrychor, Effigies and Epitaphs, Khrysanthoney, 2xCD (2011) The set under review includes the Effigies and Epitaphs album proper plus the
Continue readingSolus Patior: power electronics meets black metal in tirade against modern capitalism
NRIII, Solus Patior, Neon Doom Records, CD (2011) It had to happen one day: an album where Whitehouse-styled power electronics
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