The first thing I noticed about the album was the massive booklet that came with your new album, ‘Contra Rationem’! The lyrics are laid out in a very cryptic manner, tell us about the design and how it fits the ‘concept’, if you will, of ‘Contra…’! The way the lyrics are printed is to make
Israthoum have been lurking around in some form or other since roughly ’92 and definitely carry their experiences and ways of olde in terms of sound and substance, wiping their shit splattered asses with the faces of the new generation of the phony elitist carcinogens that simply cannot pull it off. This new release, Black
Nachvorst are a highly underrated band and I’d like to help change that as much as I can. I really enjoyed their 2009 album Stills (Black Devastation Records), which was their first full-length and am equally impressed with their sophomore full-length, Silence. This time around they are less of an atmospheric black metal band as
“Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus” That’s Latin for “With blood and whip, we worship the dark”. Of course, I have to wholeheartedly concur. Gnaw Their Tongues is a classic Italian horror film and Sade novel come to life and the audial equivalent to hell’s beckoning scraping at your ears. Lovingly doling out pain through sheer dissonance
Amidst the sea of breakdowns, pig squeals, and all things core, comes a band that’s traditional and non-conforming. Bodyfarm, named from the institutions that examine and study the deceased and decomposition of dead flesh, is a straight up no BS death metal project with pure energy and substance. Along the same lines as Vader, Vomitory,
No God – No Satan: The slogan of the French Black Metal band, Otargos. Still they have songs about God, and waved around a bible during the show. The band, smeared in dirt, gave away a good performance. They were active on stage and tried to create interaction with the audience. Sometimes it worked, while some other
Dutch duo The Beast of the Apocalypse made their presence felt with the release of their debut, ‘A Voice from the Four Horns of the Golden Altar’ on Transcendental Creations. I recently had the opportunity to speak with H.T. and find out about this extremely heavy, black and occult ritual as well as their upcoming
