Tag Khold
Easter Saturday presented a difficult choice with some great bands playing matinee shows including Madder Mortem, Imbalance and Horrifier but there was also the black metal auction. Keeping with my own tradition, I ordered a white beer and pulled up… Continue Reading →
The points of reference here are Gaahls Wyrd and Krakow, from whom this band derives its members. Add in a couple of weighty Norwegian mates on session drums and twisted artwork duties, and you’ve got an introduction. Thrashing blackness is… Continue Reading →
30 years of existence, Norwegian, 7 albums including this one, and 3 active members of Khold – that’s Tulus in a nutshell. And it’s black metal of course, a fact which is even less surprising when you know that the… Continue Reading →
This curiously titled work comes from Kringa, a band which has been around for 13 years and which has now released two full albums along with some eps and demos. Essentially a black metal band, one thing which comes across… Continue Reading →
Khold are one of these Norwegian black metal bands who knowingly or not advanced the genre in the 00s. Continuing the tradition of utterly raw and desolate black metal, elements of persistent melody supplemented the bleakness and moved away from… Continue Reading →
It’s all about self-extinction, transformation and starting again. Well, the album is, this being Blood Torrent’s third full release. Devotees of original black metal and 70s / 80s hard rock, the band bring in some of this with progressive touches…. Continue Reading →
Bands from Belarus have never failed me. Here’s another of the black metal kind. Judging by their previous release, nothingness and desolation is where they’re at. “Deathly ennui over the nothing” is how they describe it. Just the title “Irrigating… Continue Reading →
This is a Swedish set up with cited influences including Craft, Khold and Watain. This is dense, hypnotic black metal with rich sound textures exhuming multi-layered guitars, although the PR material suggests “icy rock n roll”, a term I must… Continue Reading →
By pure coincidence, on the day I was given this album for review, I was wearing an Acârash shirt so it’s fair to say that I had been impressed by their debut album and a storming previous live encounter. So,… Continue Reading →
Much like any genre or scene everything eventually gets flooded. It’s easy to see why and how, when people start paying attention to their local music scene then the passion grows and more and more people start to form bands,… Continue Reading →
Album number 6 for Sarke and they don’t seem to be letting up. The past black and roll has given way to more of an epic groove driven sound that still drips icy evilness from every pore. The fact that Sarke… Continue Reading →
“For fans of Rotting Christ, Darkthrone, Satyricon, Khold” reads the press release that accompanies ‘In Chaos Becrowned’, the debut album from Norwegian occult act Acârash. Maybe…but it does become somewhat clear as you listen to this album, that this band… Continue Reading →