Brooklyn-based experimental black metal outfit Tombs is one of those bands that it seems like everyone loves, but I’ve never quite been able to get into. For me, the problem has always been that Mike Hill and [...]
Perverted Ceremony’s Sabbat of Behezael was recorded on the same eight track recorder that the band recorded their demo on. It is definitely a lot more refined than the demo and perpetuates the ideas that they [...]
At this point, even casual readers of this site have probably picked up on the fact that we have a lot of love for Arizona-based boutique black metal label Fólkvangr Records. In case you’re new around here, though, [...]
Most people who are familiar with post-black metal outfit Ghost Bath likely know of them for one of two reasons: either it’s because they (allegedly) pretended to be from China in order to get a record deal, or it’s [...]
The last time we heard from Sean Deth, we were talking to him about his stoner/doom project Witchhelm as part of our coverage leading up to last year’s inaugural Doomed & Stoned Festival. It’s only been a few [...]
There’s a moment about a minute into “White Granite,” the opening track on Portland, Maine-based Falls of Rauros’s fourth full-length Vigilance Perennial, where the guitar sounds straight out Rod Stewart’s “Tonight’s [...]
Maybe it’s just me, but when I think of US black metal, I don’t often think of New Jersey. Yet the Garden State where one-man black metal outfit Afar calls home. However, judging by the atmospheric/folk black metal [...]
I’ve already mentioned on a couple of occasions what a sucker I am for violin in metal. The same is true for cello. The blame/credit for that goes to the amazing Jackie Perez Gratz, particularly her work with the [...]
