Dornenreich has always struck me as an act which puts such a tremendous amount of effort into its songwriting that I feel a few pangs of ...

The Lönndom sophomore Viddernas tolv kapitel was a definite example of 'what you see, what you get'. The natural landscapes photo...

To qualify Lönndom 's sophomore effort Viddernas tolv kapitel as merely ' mood music' would seem an understatement, for its ap...

Perhaps the most talked about independent metal release of 2011, or at least the second half of the year, Cormorant 's Dwellings is the...

The black & white photography selected for the booklet of this Canadian trio's debut portrays a certain sense of longing for desolat...

The previous album of the prolific Umbrtka , Úplná Demontáž Lidstva was a journey through societal and urban decay, which made use of extra...

Norway's In Vain are another band that grow quite harder to pin down, and there is really no need for such tagging, as it is obvious fr...

Arizona's Sjenovik are a difficult band to categorize, with a name taken out of Slavic lore and a style that really only begins with bl...

Similar to how Storm was a collaboration between Fenriz of Darkthrone and Satyr of Satyricon (with Kari Rueslåtten adding her vocals), Wo...

People can say a lot of things about Rob Darken: that he's controversial, that he's conservative, that his convictions place him wel...

Ösforrás is the third album from Hungary's The Moon and the Nightspirit, and, while not technically a metal band, are the perfect comp...

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...

Ok, it's time for me to focus my misty fanboy eyes long enough to write about Patrick. What's so interesting about him, you say? W...

This is the full-length debut of Sweden's Irrbloss , a folk/black metal hybrid who are riding off a pair of decent demos in the past few...

Sometimes an album will come along that is just so damned unique and wonderful that you will find yourself screaming from the rafters on the...

The s/t debut from this Chet W. Scott project was a bleak and wonderfully (or should I say horrifically) realized effort of blackened Northw...