The debut from this German/Brazilian collaboration could hardly ever be accused of not wearing its heart on its sleeve...a black, pulsing,...

The members of Germany's Schattenthron  ('Shadow Throne') exist at a nexus of various other bands including Seelenfrost, Dyste...

I've been probing the underground lately for 'roots' black metal done right, that is to say bands I might never have heard bef...

Once the Spring arrives, and New England receives its inordinate amount of random, record-setting, deep summer temperature days, I find my...

Au-Dessus is a Lithuanian band which is branded as post-black metal but only encapsulates such a sound in vaguely atmospheric terms, due ...

Rebel Souls is a project related to another little known German act called Dead Entities' Realm , whose sole 2009 disc To Reconciled ...

While not an enormous shift in style, Rebel Souls was a clear step forward for this Polish underground act, a more atmospheric and savage...

One of the issues I've taken with most of the Desperadoz records beyond the debut is that I'm a pretty big fan of both the Wester...

It's easy to pore over the Polish death metal scene of the last decade and admit it's one of the very best in the world, with acts...

Horde Casket' s fourth album Xenopocalypse proves to me a more unified, conceptual bludgeoning which pays homage to science fiction h...