I was as shocked as any when it was revealed that Coroner was doing a tour in the US and releasing a new album. Yes, I know they'd gotte...

Black metal has long since escaped from or expanded upon the thematic confines of Satanism and nihilism to embrace so lyrical ideas you migh...

With a moniker like Versatile , I think you're setting yourself up for certain expectations. Possibly disappointment, if you wind up wit...

Of all the black metal bands out there that go relatively unnoticed, I think that Switzerland's duo Borgne might be one of the most wor...

Industrial black metal acts of note are few and far between, and even when you do encounter them, they're not often the most clever hybr...

There's a dichotomy on this latest Cold Cell  album, on which I find the moments where they drift furthest away from the core considerat...

There aren't many metal musicians quite so prolific as Bornyhake, and what's more, despite being active in, or the full creative f...

It's evident that the members of Samael and myself seem to agree on the Passage- era being the one most inspiring and interesting to ...

The 'fuck you' growled out so nonchalantly near the end of "Seed of Greed" seems a bit of conscious trolling here, almos...

With an acquisition by Rising Nemesis Records out of Germany, Switzerland's Defaced have managed to carve out a stronger showing from...

The Swiss death metal scene arguably peaked with its most antiquated acts, some of whom were not exclusively death metal and have sowed th...

I probably listened to the 'real' Passage so many times, and just so obsessively that first year it came out, that any reinterpre...

While Eternal is clearly a spiritual successor to Passage in terms of its spacey aesthetics, focused cover imagery and further progressi...

There must be quite some pressure on this Swiss duo, having raised many expectations with their previous 2013 Aura , which garnered loads ...

While Samael wouldn't ultimately jump back on the horse for me until the angrier, 2009 effort Above , their seventh full-length '...

There was a brief window of time in which I had convinced myself that Reign of Light was a great follow-up to Eternal , Samael 's fir...

Era One/Lesson in Magick #1 might have come as a surprise to many unaware Samael fans, but it was not wholly unexpected from this sector...

Being that there was next to no possibility of topping Passage (then and forevermore, apparently), Samael did the next best thing by rel...

Rebellion is at the very least an interesting little median between Samael 's strongest albums, a relic from a time when most bands s...

For quite a few folks I know, Ceremony of Opposites is the point at which first contact was made with the music of Samael , and thus it c...