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music ARTICLE: Round-Up: Black Metal
Kit Rathenar checks in with a few of black metal’s darkest lights to uncover some quality releases that we didn’t manage to review at the time, courtesy of Setherial, Vreid, Hellsaw, Enthroned, Saille and Kampfar.
music REVIEW: Finntroll – Blodsvept
Henry Fogarty comes late to the troll party, and finds it’s still in full swing.
music REVIEW: Darkthrone – The Underground Resistance
Can Rob McAuslan resist another Darkthrone album? Of course he can’t.
music REVIEW: Aetherium Mors – Drenched in Victorious Blood
Phil Whitehouse checks out Plymouth, UK-based melodic blackened death metal duo Aetherium Mors’ debut album, ‘Drenched in Victorious Blood’.
music REVIEW: Al-Namrood – Estorat Taghoot
Michael Atkin indulges in tales of lush banquets and mighty kings courtesy of Arabian black metal act Al-Namrood’s ‘Estorat Taghoot’.
music REVIEW: Fen – Dustwalker
Is the new wave of British black metal here to stay or just another flavour of the month? Danny Heaton assesses Fen’s latest contribution, Dustwalker.
music ARTICLE: Festival Preview: ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 – Ones to Watch
Danny Heaton and Phil Whitehouse take you through some of the bands they’re looking forward to seeing at ‘Kin Hell Fest 2 at the Templeworks in Leeds, a three-day festival to be held from the 26th to the 28th of April for the wallet-pleasing sum of £35.
music LIVE REVIEW: Grand Magus, Primitai & Funeral Throne @ The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton – 28/02/2013
Jack Traveller (words) and Phil Whitehouse (pictures) gird their loins for the coming to Wolverhampton of Grand Magus’s ‘The Hunt’ tour.
music REVIEW: Saille – Ritu
Belgian sextet Saille set the standard for black metal in 2013 with their sophomore album ‘Ritu’.
music REVIEW: Old Corpse Road – ’Tis Witching Hour… As Spectres We Haunt This Kingdom
Kit Rathenar hearkens to Old Corpse Road’s black metal fireside tales, and is now sleeping with the lights on.
music REVIEW: Kontinuum – Earth Blood Magic
Henry Fogarty soaks up some “structured occult ambient noise”, courtesy of Kontinuum’s ‘Earth Blood Magic’.
music REVIEW: Bornholm – Inexorable Defiance
There’s hardly a shortage of black metal bands drawing on Viking and pagan imagery. Can Bornholm do enough to stand out in an increasingly crowded genre? Oliver Longden finds out.
music LIVE REVIEW: Converge, Touché Amoré, A Storm of Light & The Secret @ O2 Academy 2, Birmingham – 26/11/2012
Phil Whitehouse checks out a diverse evening encompassing grindcore, hardcore, black metal, screamo and post-metal, all headed up by an explosive performance by metallic hardcore legends Converge.
music REVIEW: De Magia Veterum – The Deification
De Magia Veterum specialise in opaque and challenging black metal but does The Deification expand your musical horizons or sit sullenly on the musical naughty step? Oliver Longden tries and fails to find a definitive answer.
music ARTICLE: Damnation Festival 2012
Danny Heaton and Jack Traveller spent a day in the Leeds University Union to bring you this in-depth report of the metallic festivities ensconsced within in the form of the 2012 edition of Damnation Festival.
music REVIEW: Lahmia – Into The Abyss
Ryan Neal discovers Lahmia’s Into The Abyss, Italy’s best metal export.
music REVIEW: Bastard Sapling – Dragged From Our Restless Trance
Fancy some old-school black metal? Bastard Sapling strike out at mankind, all the way from the snowy wastes of, er, Virginia? Rob McAuslan corpses-up.
music REVIEW: Marduk – Dark Endless (Reissue)
Henry Fogarty celebrates the twenty-year anniversary of black metallers Marduk’s debut album ‘Dark Endless’ by smearing himself in corpsepaint and having a listen to Century Media’s reissue of the album. Has it stood the test of time?
music REVIEW: Sarcofago – Decade of Decay
Danny Heaton gets subterranean with South American cult band Sarcofago.