Author Gizmo
I think it’s fair to say that Ireland’s death metal dark horses, or dark werewolves even, Vircolac take their time in releasing music. This is their second full length, after 2019’s dark but insightful ‘Masque’. They play death metal that… Continue Reading →
V-Khaos, the entity behind dozens of projects not least Dim Lights, returns to the forests of his birth, Druadan, and the world of dungeon synth after their cosmic journey through ‘Portals’. So I guess as the lurker on the threshold… Continue Reading →
Ah. A precious night arrives as here we have the absolute legendary entity that is Lustmord arriving to prove that only true vision and genius can do dark ambient so well. Brian Williams, the Welsh maestro behind this name, returns… Continue Reading →
Heretic. One of those names that has so many entries in Metal Archives you get dizzy, but as this lot of Dutch degenerates have been trailing through the sleazy much since the late nineties they have a far better shout… Continue Reading →
Debut album time, but side project time too. This time by Darkside (Mgla) and The Fall (Mgla live, Owls Woods Graves) and guess what? I’m practically alone amongst my black metal aficionados by not being a Mgla fan, for a… Continue Reading →
Bit late turning this in, but it was actually released mid 2023 it seems but this is the CD version so, hey, we’re here. Debut album, but rising out of (via a simply name change Black Ejaculate whose ‘Cum soaked… Continue Reading →
I spent a great deal of 2023 falling deeper and deeper into distros, fledgling projects and delightfully reacquainting myself with the dizzying world that is dungeon synth. As EPs and demos are excluded from Ave Noctum’s end of year… Continue Reading →
After eight years smouldering, 2023 saw a re-stoking the infernal fires from US thirty plus year veterans of the black metal world Demoncy. They released an album this year and now this EP sneaks in at the end. So we… Continue Reading →
Dwelling Below. A band so obscure that they don’t have an entry on Metal Archives. . However the drummer/vocalist Jared Moran appears to currently be in every flipping death metal band in the US (though this one not listed…) and… Continue Reading →
I’ve just been listening to an Iblis Manifestations podcast (Shayan from Trivax’s podcast, shout out for him) where Shayan and Cult Never Dies boss Dayal Patterson and the particular segment concerning what is black metal and what the attitude of… Continue Reading →
I first heard this Finnish lot back around 2005 when they were still called The Coven but for reasons of life and stuff unrelated it’s been a good ten years or so since I last dropped in on them. I… Continue Reading →
It’s been over a dozen years since I first heard the high energy hard rock, borderline metal of this Chicago band with 2011’s Another Night and in that time they’ve become a go to band when I’m low with their… Continue Reading →