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Black Hate – Through the Darkness
How many black metal bands in the past have proven to be truly progressive, innovative or even avant garde? You might find several bands that fit that niche. Even some big acts in black metal could be...
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Hey! Listen To Chateau!
Sure, we talk a lot on here about how good New England’s metal and hardcore scene is, but let’s not forget that North Carolina has really been stepping up the quality of its bands over the past several...
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Immortal – Northern Chaos Gods
When Abbath left Immortal in 2015 it was largely assumed that the band itself was done for, with their iconic frontman reportedly intending to release the band’s newly completed material under his own...
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Kvlt Kolvmn – July 2018
2018 has been quite the year for metal as a whole. With big releases from big bands hitting all the high notes, and several subgenres experiencing some of their most consistently impressive output in...
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Downfall of Gaia – Ethic Of Radical Finitude
Downfall of Gaia are one of those rare bands where there’s a compelling argument to make for any of their releases being a personal favorite. From the gnarled neocrust of Epos to the post-metallic...
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Hybrid Nightmares – Obelisk
There has always been a tension between the more irreverent and serious sides of Hybrid Nightmares. On one hand is the clearly black metal band’s refusal to “restrict themselves to any one style of...
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Abbath – Outstrider
Writing about a new Abbath album without mentioning Immortal would be tantamount to writing about Bruce Dickinson’s solo albums (The Chemical Wedding still holds up!) without mentioning Iron Maiden....
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Heavy Delinquency – Misþyrming’s Algleymi
There are few scenes in the metal world that have drawn as much attention and critical acclaim as Icelandic black metal has over the past several years. Band’s like Zhrine, Sinmara, Svartidauði, Auðn,...
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False – Portent
The weight of expectation is a real and powerful thing. Just ask Interpol, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party or any of the dozens of modern rock bands who garnered popularity and/or acclaim with a stellar debut....
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Mylingar – Döda Själar
Sweden’s Mylingar make legitimately terrifying music. If the most debilitating nightmares of your most dread-filled childhood nights took physical form, Mylingar would be their voice, retching decay...
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Serpent Column – Mirror in Darkness
Serpent Column is a project that has been waiting to burst onto the larger metal scene for some time. Over the past few years, sole continual member Theophonos has conjured adventurous, meticulously...
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King – Coldest of Cold
Another week, another serviceable yet disappointing follow-up from an Australian supergroup…Emerging from the ashes of Australian grind legends Blood Duster, Fuck I’m Dead and The Day Everything Became...
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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen As Snakeblade Lets You Into “The Kingdom”
One of the adjectives that have most accompanied me during the last few months in regards to music is “fun”. Don’t get me wrong, I still listen to plenty of dour and “serious” music but as time goes on...
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Kvlt Kolvmn // September 2020
Greetings, fellow pagans! Ave Satanas, and all that jazz. Fall is creeping its way onto the scene in my neck of the woods, which provides the perfect backdrop for fantastic black metal and the awesome...
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Kvlt Kolvmn // Mid Year Review
The year of our infernal underlords 2022 is beyond its halfway point. It’s time to break it down through a quick jaunt of our favorite releases of both last month and the year at large thus far. Oh...
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