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Sacral – Three of Cups

Make no mistake. This is legitimate black metal music. It just chooses to follow a different path than the grim, corpse-painted, spike laden creature of the night that so many black metal musicians cosplay as.

Terminalist – The Crisis As Condition

These songs are catchy, brutal, and groovy all at the same time.

REVIEW + INTERVIEW: Dismal Aura – Imperium Mortalia

Though the album is explosive, there is plenty of room for nuance

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Yatsu – Appomattox

It’s a scathing powerviolence attack with elements of grind, death metal, groove, and noise filtered through a lens of pure, unadulterated rage.

Cavalcade – Evergreens

There is genuinely never a dull time on this album.

Białywilk – Zmora

This is one for the dark hours.

REVIEW + INTERVIEW: Nixil – From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire

“Calling ourselves antifascist by no means takes away the ferocity of this music. Our teeth are just bared in a different direction, and dripping with different blood.”

Dethklok – Dethalbum IV

…beautifully crafted riffs, brutal vocals, and tight, clean recording quality.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Warcrab – The Howling Silence

I’m a pretty huge fan of the band’s output to date, but this track tops the pile for me.

Witches Forest – Sitting on Stardust

Witches Forest is a perfect example of someone who was actually showing indigenous musical characteristics.

Iskandr – Spiritus Sylvestris

I really love songs that sound like they’d work as a pop songs too and this absolutely does. Bravo!

Ushangvagush – Pestmo’qon

Musically, Pesto’qon picks up where Mntu left off, and then builds from there.

Auriferous Flame – Ardor For Black Mastery

while fundamentally it is black metal as we know and love it, it’s turned and tweaked and reshaped in small ways that leave it sounding fresh and vital.

Bergfried – Romantik II

It really threw me off on first listen, but it’s so well executed that I couldn’t help but fall in love with it.

Feast of the Witch – Under a Sinister Moon

Azaketh has crafted five tracks which feel genuinely powerful.

RORCAL – Silence

When leagues of black metal and sludge bands continue to narrow themselves into smaller and smaller niches in genres that are already well-trodden, sometimes a band scrambles the assumptions of genre enough to keep everything interesting. Rorcal is one such band.