black metal
Vėlių Namai – Nature’s Ambiance in Mitė and Sound
The dark, ambient artist known as Julius Mitė has spent years creating some of the most unique and unsettling sounds accompanied by nature’s visual anatomy making sounds that might seem wrong in nature’s natural setting and audio pictorials that would make Bob Ross back away from the canvas. Vėlių Namai is the name of Mitės creation. The Lithuanian musician brings sounds out of the laptop and inst...[Read More]
The Convalescence Celebrate A Deranged Decade at Thompson House
Sunday August 15, the extreme metal caravan known as The Convalescence brought their traveling horror show to Northern Kentucky for a night of loud, screaming metal. The haunted halls and walls of The Thompson House shook with decibel-laden vibration, causing spirits to come screaming out of hiding. If only they could talk as loud as the bands. The six-person Northern, Ohio based brood brought a l...[Read More]
The Leviathan Project – In Beast Mode
Florida’s known for many things besides heat, Disney World, rappers and of course the head banging, growling birthplace of death metal. The movement began in the ‘80s with Father Chuck alongside the darkness of Deicide, Obituary and Morbid Angel among several other blasphemers. Previously, no death metal project or sound has had any close, relatable proximity to ‘80s glam metal, (talk about blasph...[Read More]
Electromancy – Soul of a Black Metal Machine
Over the years there have been musicians with extraordinary tales of learning or relearning to play music after major accidents, health issues and physical challenges. Rick Allen became the world’s first one-arm drummer, while guitar virtuoso Jason Becker continues to make music and communicate through eye movement after full body paralysis from Lou Gerighs disease. Diagnosed with Lyme disease in ...[Read More]
Into Pandemonium – Darkest Rise
Straight from the depths and darkest corners of the Dayton, Ohio metal family comes the conjuring of 6-piece extreme band Into Pandemonium. They’ve used guitar strings and drum sticks to paint broad genre-crossing strokes tapping black, extreme and technical death with vocal experimentation beyond growls and screams. The young blood drips like a sacrificial chalice fermenting a new brew from a new...[Read More]
Necronomicon – Unus
The sounds and audio spells from Canada’s extreme music benders Necronomicon have carried into late 2019 with a new stirring opus combing styles, structures and genres molded into their world venturing down new pathways, producing a unique product all their own. They’ve gone Beyond Thunderdome so to speak on new record Unus. They’ve made a career pulling the teeth from traditional death metal usin...[Read More]
Survive – Immortal Warriors
Seven albums into their career, Japan’s long standing riff masters Survive have proven neither time, millage or volume can slow them down. If the sound’s on new record Immortal Warriors are any indication, they’re getting louder, faster and heavier with age with vocalist/guitarist Nemo , guitarist Gaku, bassist Sinjilow and drummer Shintarou blasting out new audio plunder. Blending thrash, new an...[Read More]
Vials of Wrath- Days Without Names
For those who still appreciate classic music mediums and own working tape players, boom-boxes or Walkman’s, Fragile Branch Recordings will release Days Without Names from the one-man operation Vials Of Wrath on deluxe cassette as a limited edition 100 run for an unofficial June release. Originally released in 2015, all vocals, guitars, bass and synth were done by Dempsey “DC” Mills with gues...[Read More]
Belphegor Conjures the Dead in Ohio
Austria’s death, black metal blood-stained blasphemers Belphegor played the Buckeye state Saturday Aug. 28. The foursome performed a blackened ceremony to a packed house at Oddbody’s, full of hot, sweaty, somewhat intoxicated followers and disciples. The show was part of the bands 11th North American raid through the U.S. Guitarist/vocalist Helmuth put together a savage live beating for the crowd ...[Read More]
Banned from Hell- Fall of Humanity
Banned From Hell is an Italian metal band hailing from Florence. Their style is basked in the multi-instrument, genre exploring realms of experimentation, black metal, Nordic styles and what Shadows Fall, Amon Amarth and Lamb of God might sound like morphed in with keyboards and gothic/horror themes and vampiric imagery. In 2015 Fall of Humanity was recorded and made for the impressive ear that a...[Read More]