Finland is no stranger to the more primordial side of the black metal spectrum, with scores of its prominent artists helping keep alive (or ...

Does the world really need another re-release of the Darkthrone demos? That really all depends on how much of a fanatic one has become for t...

Revel in Flesh face an immediate uphill battle in that they perform the same brand of 90s Swedeath worship that's so widespread and pre...

Eternum proves yet another reason why Australia is leading the pack when it comes to this latest generation of atmospheric black metal, tra...

What I love about an album like Death Scroll of Seven Hells and Its Infernal Majesties is how you go into it expecting one thing and then c...

Deathhammer has always been a band possessed of that highly sought, cult 'it factor' since their inception, but then, that's no...

As with the two previous Shroud of Despondency albums I've encountered, Pine drags its listener into an emotional, conceptual journey ...

Step Into Damnation presents another convincing argument that not all throwback death metal must prescribe to the tenets established by Ent...

Balancing ambient and black metal aesthetics against one another efficiently is not as easy as it might sound, but it's this very coupli...

After experiencing their Prototype recording earlier in the 21st century, I had no hope that Celtic Frost would ever be returning to the l...