This is another of the newer masked European black metal bands, only they use what look like some sort of templar-meets-executioner attire w...

Surprisingly, Galibot is not my first encounter with mining-themed black metal, as the Germans in  Dauþuz have been exploring the niche fo...

Archvile King 's debut saw the immediate rise of a new force in French black metal, perhaps lacking in the dissonant nuance of that scen...

I wasn't super familiar with Creeping Fear going into this third album. I recognized the demonic mascot, perhaps I'd sampled an ear...

While they're still not very well known outside of their home region,  Darkenhöld is one of the top and most consistent bands performin...

Räum 's 2023 debut Cursed by the Crown was a serviceable slab of surging, atmospheric Belgian black metal, which didn't leave much ...

I had already run across Sordide 's last record a couple years ago, but even with an expectation of their style this one started off so ...

Much like Time Lurker 's eponymous 2017 debut, Emprise is long on transforming atmospherics into something that smacks you straight in ...

The cover of this record is extremely primal and evocative, several forces of nature colliding in an elemental cataclysm, and I'm happy ...

As a New Englander born and bred, adopted from a seaside hospital and rarely ever having lived more than a few miles away from the Atlantic,...

Adorned in what might be the most erotically diabolic cover artwork of the year, the fifth album from Corpus Diavolis offers another scorch...

I think if the last decade of this French black metal scene had arrived at any other point in the past of extreme music, it'd likely hav...

There's something immediately classicist about French act A/Oratos (not to be confused with the Naas Alchemist project Aoratos ), from ...

French one-man act  RüYYn 's debut EP from a couple years back hardly lit my world on fire, not that its wintry and isolated disposition...

Penitencé Onirique is another French black metal act with its post-black influences anchored rather solidly in the more traditional element...

From its creepy, ritualistic artwork to its atmospheric embellishments, Astral Rape is one of the more haunting new records I've come a...

Although I have no experience with the band's prior EP from last year, I can say without hesitation that Répugnance is, as its title im...

Hyrgal occupy a pretty solid spot in the second tier of French black metal nowadays, and all three of their albums thus far have been a goo...

You THINK this album cover gives off the impression of some hand holding, warm emotional blackgaze, until you look a little closer and disco...

Räum is a newer French black metal act which relies heavy on the fundamental shifts created by the riffing patterns, all rather simple and ...