Circle of Salt – Suffer the Cold
Adhering fairly tightly to the supposed rules of black metal, Circle Of Salt manage to also convincingly pull elements from other parts of the heavy metal universe and assemble them expertly.
Arallu Interview
Hayduke interviews Butchered, founding member of Jerusalem based Arallu.
Top Black Metal EPs by I.Gos
My top album of the year and top EP of 2017 is Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Hermaphrodite.
Cadence Calling – Dark Sentiment
The heaviness is definitely strong in this one.
George’s Best of 2017!
This year saw a lot of releases by bands that I am already a fan of, and as such, my list this year has more in common with Rolling Stone than with, let’s say, the Quietus.
Diarchy – Here Lost We Lie
This album shows how versatile this band can be, all while sticking to a sound they’ve made as their own.
Hamferð- Támsins likam (Review and Interview)
“This is a sign of a band being in no hurry to make hollow statements but taking the time they need to create and shape their art before presenting it to the rest of the world.”
Centripetal Force – Eidetic (EP)
Will make what I predict to be an unprecedented play garnering the praise of thrashers far and wide.
Pakasteet – Pula
Then, add in the sound of someone destroying your mother’s kitchen.
Malokarpatan – Nordkarpatenland
The result, for this listener, is a dark journey of madness where you are occasionally allowed to see some moments of brightness.