CDs

Ocultan is a Brazilian horde that, whether you, the reader, like their work or not, must recognize as one of the most serious and respectable bands in our scene. Their new album, the eleventh in their discography, to...

Origin: Saxony, Germany 🇩🇪 Genre: Black Metal Once more now as the Autumnal winds sweep their deathly gusts across the land and as Winter’s icy grip begins to harden every soul, Atronos are returning from the fray baring...

Origin: International Genre: Black Metal Asagraum’s ascent to the upper echelons of black metal notoriety has been nothing short of astronomical. Having been conceived by fires of the hottest blasphemy and having propelled themselves under the momentum of...

Origin: Bergen, Vestland, Norway 🇳🇴 Label: Black Metal Norway’s Taake - a staple namesake for any and all black metal enthusiasts who’ve grown beyond the genre’s earliest influences/crimes and who have settled into the notion that true BM...

Origin: Annecy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France 🇫🇷 Genre: Symphonic Black / Death Metal The mind is a universe; one where the individual can hold ultimate authority over the cosmos one minute and fall victim to the black hole of existential...

And behold, in a completely surprising and, most importantly, unexpected manner, the strongest candidate for the best Brazilian Black Metal album of 2023 has arrived. Damn, what an overwhelmingly devastating album, what an unspeakable experience. I'm talking about...

Origin: Brewster, New York, USA 🇺🇸 Genre: Death / Black Metal Profanatica - American depravity done proper since 1990. The band was formed when Paul Ledney decided that Incantation’s aspirations for US death metal domination didn’t align with...

Origin: Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden 🇸🇪 Genre: Occult Black Metal From out of Sweden: home to the international black metal circuit’s most occult-driven scene come Mephorash. It has been this way since the early mischief of one Jon Nödtveidt...

If I had listened to "Cez Ostrie Skal," the third album by the Slovakian Pagan Black Metal band KRAJINY HMLY, at the right moment, it would undoubtedly have secured a spot in my top five albums of 2022....

A Black Metal band with over three decades of experience, fifteen studio albums in their discography, and featuring the iconic members Daniel "Mortuus" Rostén and Morgan Hakansson in their lineup undoubtedly grasp the essence of the genre. They...