The first two Sarke records gave me something that I never knew I needed but subconsciously probably always wanted: hearing Nocturno Culto...

The fourth and final Windir record is the darkest. Not simply because I associate it with the untimely passing of its main protagonist Valf...

1184 seems like it's the first Windir album which is considered more of a 'band' effort. Valfar is still the chieftain of this...

As soon as you hear the interchange between the accordion and the synths of "Byrjing" that herald Arntor , you know there's b...

Windir is most often celebrated for their later albums, but I have to say. after exploring back through their discography this winter, that...

Off for April, be back in May with some Norwegian black metal coverage. -autothrall

People surrounding me (both in meatspace and cyberspace) absolutely lost their shit over this album, and I can't count how many times I ...

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

This is another of the newer masked European black metal bands, only they use what look like some sort of templar-meets-executioner attire w...

I've been with  Kreator  for nearly 40 years at this point; no, not as a member, but as a fan of this institution that has swept the thr...