You could see Satyricon & Munch as the second half of the experiment they started with Live at the Opera , but while the former was a d...

One of the more esoteric split pairings I've seen lately, there was no way I wasn't checking this out, and much to my satisfaction...

I'd like to afford myself the convenience of dubbing this or any other Jute Gyte album 'fucked up beyond recognition'; only b...

Apart from its mighty death metal armada, which has long ago achieved international notice thanks to groups like Behemoth and Vader , Pol...

Missouri's Jute Gyte continues to lead an impressive double life as an experimental/ambient obscurity and an adventurous black metal co...

Young Eagle is another excursion into the realm of the unholy impulse below the existence of all thinking beings, courtesy of Missouri nois...

To many untrained ears, black metal music is already noise enough, crossing the line from comprehension to confusion. Part of this is an unw...

It's unusual how often the 'rule of threes' applies in all walks of life, from the popular media of the book or film trilogy, to...

Blood of the Black Owl 's previous meditation, A Feral Spirit , was a haze inducing ritual of both beauty and terror, as extreme as it c...

Paul Ledney has continued to refine his addiction to noise over the years, having long since abandoned the rigid black metal that anointed h...

You are not in Kansas anymore. You are trapped within the mind of one of the sickest fucks to ever commit himself to tape, New York's Pa...

Anyone caught dreaming that Abigor were going to suddenly shy away from the post-modern, experimental direction they took with 2007's F...

Formed for the Reason of Unleashing Sonic Destruction & Corruption through Epistemic Terrorism and Bibliophilistic Atavism. The quote wa...

Oregon's L'Acephale is perhaps the most impressive, eclectic black metal artist I've heard since Blood of the Black Owl , Levia...

Circle of Ouroborus is perhaps the most bizarre act on the primal Finnish black metal scene. Since their formation 5 years past, they have ...

Previously known for his drone music, Jenks Miller has lifted Chapel Hill's Horseback from that niche to one all his own. Immediately t...

You may well be familiar with the Czech sewer black metal band Stíny Plamenù , but what of the prolific Umbrtka ? Having released 14 albums ...

I've never set foot in the 31st state, but when I listen to California I am transported there. Or, at least to a kind of cinematic ster...

I don't think that my head is nearly fucked up enough to understand what's really going on here, but I have to try. More properly k...

Norway's Ulver released an unbelievably raw and cold black metal album in 1996 titled Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden...