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...

When I look back at the metal albums that end up my favorites for a particular year, there's a pretty even division between those that a...

Chained to Ossuaries came after a six year period from Human Hecatomb , so it makes sense that there's been a little evolution in the P...

Human Hecatomb feels like the obligatory full-length version of its predecessor, the Ravenous Decease EP, with the same sort of raw produc...

Pyre is a little-known Russian death metal band that almost nobody ever seems to talk about, despite having a killer upswing trajectory to ...

Surprisingly, Galibot is not my first encounter with mining-themed black metal, as the Germans in  Dauþuz have been exploring the niche fo...

  Hugs, kisses, and razorblades, folks! Be back in March. -autothrall