Altari – Kröflueldar
Putting all of these experimental tendencies together, we have an album that you will return to regularly.
Putting all of these experimental tendencies together, we have an album that you will return to regularly.
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.
Though the album is explosive, there is plenty of room for nuance
This is one for the dark hours.
“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.”
Witches Forest is a perfect example of someone who was actually showing indigenous musical characteristics.
Musically, Pesto’qon picks up where Mntu left off, and then builds from there.
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.
Azaketh has crafted five tracks which feel genuinely powerful.
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.