Posts Tagged ‘Atmospheric Black Metal’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024
A Finnish supergroup of sorts (former and ex-members of …And Oceans, Black Beast, Rapture, Scorgrain), The Mist From the Mountains released a superb debut back in 2022, that made my year-end list with its excellent take on the classic, folky second wave black metal sound, culling heavily from the likes of Borknagar, the first Ulver […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Erik T, Primitive Reaction, Review, The Mist From The Mountains
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
I’m not familiar with Germany’s Servant, having not heard the band’s prior two albums. Still, I’m always down for some ‘melodic-yet-furious black metal’ (per the promotional email). Especially as I dig a lot of the music that AOP Records puts out, especially the likes of Firtan, Waldgeflüster, Groza, Finsterforst, and Harakiri for the Sky. So I […]
Tags: 2024, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Servant
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Friday, September 6th, 2024
I’ve been on a huge Lord of the Rings/ Tolkien kick recently and have been seeking out some music to satiate my need, enter Swedish duo Morcaint. Mornië Utúlië is the follow-up to last year’s Ellesar EP, and the duo of Ulvtyr and main composer Heruhim certainly know their way around Tolkein-themed atmospheric and melancholic […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Morcaint, Nordvis Produktion, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › H on Friday, June 28th, 2024
Henry Kane (AKA Jonny Petterson from Wombbath) has released two fine grindcore/crust albums under this Poltergeist-named project; 2017s Den förstörda människans rike, and 2020s appropriately named Age of the Idiot. Both delivering furious, Nasum-ish-styled Swedish grind/crust. However, his third release is a completely different beast altogether. and you should probably brace for it a little bit. […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Grindcore, Henry Kane, Review, Selfmadegod Records
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, June 14th, 2024
Devourer of All is the second album from Belgian black metal band Nyrak, (I could not find who or what a ‘Nyrak‘ is) a new band to me, but based on this excellent second effort they will be a regular band in my playlist and a band with a bright future. Playing a blend of […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Nyrak, Phoenix Mortis Productions, Review, Symphonic Black Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Friday, May 31st, 2024
Mining-obsessed German duo Dauþuz (‘Death’) has been on my radar for a while now. I initially heard them on their third album, Monvmentvm in 2019, and then in 2021, they crept onto my year-end list with Vom schwarzen Schmied. I wondered how they would, like other specifically themed bands (i.e. Alestorm) how they would continue […]
Tags: 2024, Amor Fati, Amor Fati Productions, Atmospheric Black Metal, Dauþuz, Erik T, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
I went blindly into the promo for this release, as I have been in an ‘atmospheric black metal’ mood of late. But then I dug into the project more and was even more excited as it’s a multinational trio comprised of Jacob Buczarski of Mare Cognitum on drums, an Argentine dude named Dany Tee on […]
Tags: 2024, Acathexis, Amor Fati, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Extraconscious Records, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › R on Monday, March 25th, 2024
35 years. Existence and longevity come from quality and excellence. Releasing album after album with diabolical precision has been the Rotting Christ ethic throughout their career, since 1988 when they were a Grindcore band and then transitioning to Black Metal in the early 90s with 1993’s Thy Mighty Contract, they have forged and put together […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Rotting Christ, Season of Mist
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › I on Monday, March 4th, 2024
I don’t know if Ihsahn’s new album qualifies for one of my most anticipated of 2024 because I received the (streaming-only) promo slightly before it came out. It still hit me out of nowhere. I will confess to being a fan, but his solo works haven’t done much for me on the last few records. […]
Tags: 2024, Atmospheric Black Metal, Candlelight Records, Ihsahn, J Mays, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, November 21st, 2023
I kinda dug, These Nameless Worlds, the debut EP from this atmospheric/melodic black metal duo from Sweden. Despite the light-less moniker, it was a cosmic-themed, uplifting, bright take on the genre with some very pleasant melodies in the vein of Ghostbath, Vinland, Numeron, and Vallendusk. Well here is the full-length debut on the very fitting […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Lion Records, Erik T, Lightlorn, Melodic Black Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023
I grabbed the prom for this Swiss one-man project as the moniker, album title and French song titles screamed Antiq Records-styled medieval, epic, and atmospheric black metal (i.e Passéisme, Veheménce). And I wasn’t too far off. The brainchild of one Marc Dalton (also of the solid melodic black metal band Tyrmfar, who released a fine […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Aural Music, Code666 Records, Erik T, Félonie
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › P on Monday, October 16th, 2023
In the end, how do you want to be remembered? Will you be remembered at all? The ultimate weight of our own legacy hangs like a formless specter, bearing down on us with every waking moment, growing heavier and more gnarled with every step towards this life’s inevitable conclusion. And that’s kind of a bitch, […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Folk Metal, How It Ends, Metal Blade Records, Primordial, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Thursday, October 12th, 2023
I didn’t discover this French one-man (Ardraos) melodic black metal project until the third album in 2019, Hic Regnant Borbonii Manes. However, I really enjoyed it (honestly, I’m not sure how it didn’t end up on my 2019 year-end list) and I have been eagerly awaiting its follow-up. The mix of completely over-the-top, busy, shredding, […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Debemur Morti Productions, Erik T, Review, Sühnopfer
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Thursday, October 5th, 2023
I usually check out almost all of the Purity Through Fire promos we get, as I usually know what I am getting; frosty or raw, or some sort of decent to excellent quality old school or second-wave inspired black metal, usually from Germany or Scandinavia. The likes of Eisenkult, Kryptamok, Mavorim, Noidva, and such have […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Depressive Black Metall, Erik T, Purity Through Fire, Review, Wooden Throne
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › P on Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
It still amazes me, even 2 years later, 3 Russian death metal dudes (all three are in the HM2 worshipping Wombripper) delivered one of 2021’s best black metal records in Eminence. And it still stands up there with label mates Véhémence as Antiq Records’ very best releases and bands. Well, the follow-up is finally here, […]
Tags: 2023, Antiq Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Passéisme, Review
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, July 17th, 2023
Anyone who’s paid any attention to the world of metal music in the last two years probably needs no introduction to Blackbraid at this point which, in and of itself, is pretty astounding. In fact, we’re not even a full two years removed from Sgah’gahsowáh (AKA Jon Krieger) unleashing the one-man project’s first two blistering […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackbraid, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › F on Monday, June 26th, 2023
Fathomage is a one-man, Australian, self-confessed Orthodox Christian who goes by the name of ‘Akul’. But don’t let the orthodox Christian thing put you off, as his music isn’t preachy ‘white metal’ at all but rather a Summoning (he has dabbled in Tolkien themes for prior album Minas Morgul – The Nazgûl Awaken) inspired take […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Fathomage, Northern Silence Productions, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Thursday, June 8th, 2023
Indonesia Vallendusk is one of my favorite atmospheric black metal bands, so when I heard that Numeron was from also Indonesia, played the same style of black metal, AND have a concept album based on Norse mythology, I had to check it out. And while not quite as good as Vallendusk, they are still really […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Numeron, Review, Tragedy Productions
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Wednesday, March 8th, 2023
Carathis is a one-man project helmed by one, Erech Leleth, who also serves in Grandeur as well as Ancient Mastery, Narzissus, and Golden Blood. He’s been pretty prolific since 2021 with a hand full of splits and EPs and Personal Records has taken two of his latest EPs, The Amethyst Fortress and The Moonstone Temple, […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Carathis, Erik T, Personal Records, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
It’s been 9 years since the Australian one-man project (aka D.) Woods of Desolation dropped As The Stars, one of 2014’s more critically acclaimed black metal albums that leaned hard into the Ghostbath, Vallendusk, Alcest, Spectral Lore, Mare Cognitum, Deafheaven style of atmospheric/post-black metal. Well, again assisted by Drudkh’s Vlad on drums and keyboards, D. was […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Review, Season of Mist, Woods of Desolation
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, January 13th, 2023
A late 2022 release that I got my hands on even later in 2022, Lunar Mercia is a post/atmospheric black metal band from Birmingham in the UK, and resides in the same dark, dreamy, melodic, jangly space as Ghost Bath, Wolves in the Throne Room, Woods of Desolation, Harakari for the Sky, Alcest and such. […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Lunar Mercia, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Wednesday, December 7th, 2022
Germany’s Pagan/Black Metal act, Firtan return with their third full-length album – Marter. I am new to the sounds of Firtan and the Pagan/Black Metal influences are something I am starting to enjoy, the more I hear bands playing this style of music. This review is for the 8 song album, but the physical copy […]
Tags: 2022, AOP Records, Atmospheric Black Metal, Firtan, Frank Rini, Pagan Black Metal, Review
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › W on Monday, December 5th, 2022
I heard a couple of great Summoning inspired bands back in 2021; Norway’s Urdôl Ur and their debut, Seven Portals To The Arcane Realms and Withered Land‘s The Endless Journey. But nothing so far in 2022. Enter Hungary’s duo WitcheR, Lélekharang (‘Soul Bell’) which is unfortunately not based on the Andrzej Sapkowski books or Henry Cavil […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Filosofem_Records, Review, Witcher
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Friday, November 11th, 2022
With a name like Lightlorn ( ‘having no light’ or ‘bereft of light’) you’d think the debut EP from these Gothenburg atmospheric/post black metallers would be a truly grim, depressive affair. However, the 4 lengthy songs that comprise this EP are actually some of the most delightfully uplifting, melodic black metal I’ve heard in a […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Erik T, Lightlorn, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Tuesday, October 11th, 2022
In 2020 I reviewed Seattle’s atmospheric black metal band- Izthmi’s impressive debut The Arrows of Our Ways. The band had only released a prior demo and I had never heard of them before and was blown away by the debut album. Album #2 Leaving This World, Leaving It All Behind sees the band progressing in […]
Tags: 2022, Atmospheric Black Metal, Frank Rini, Izthmi, Review, Satanik Royalty Records