SONG OF THE WEEK: Mayhem – Life Eternal
Though their past is rife with violence, murder, suicide, Nazism, and more, they are undoubtedly one of the creators of the sound we now call black metal.
Aenaon – Hypnosophy
Hypnosophy brings to mind the gods of old, risen again to walk the earth and to have their final vengeance on usurper man.
Khaos-Dei – Opus II: Catechism
Only the glare of red flames give any glow and it is a dark malevolent glow indeed.
Calligram – Demimonde
Calligram is a consuming fire raging across the landscape to destroy all who are unworthy with their brand of blistering hot blackened crust.
SONG OF THE WEEK: Vermin Womb – Age of Neglect
This song, and the album from which it relentlessly crawls forth like an invading creature of spiteful violence, are among the most brutal, hateful, bile-filled creations I have ever heard.
Anagnorisis – Peripeteia
Musically, Peripeteia is has grown immensely from Beyond All Light. Pablo Picasso once said, “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” Beyond All Light is the band’s masterpiece after learning the rules of black metal as an art form. It is darkly beautiful, full of vile, pent-up aggression and ceaseless rage. Peripeteia is where Anagnorisis begin to break the rules like an artist.
Astral Blood – Astral Blood
The two songs and the interlude sandwiched between are ominous, destructive, and diabolic while also taking the listener on a dark, dimensional journey.
Discarnatus – Awakened Through Pain
Discarnatus is like a re-animated corpse with blackened, putrefying flesh layered over a skeleton of death metal.
Interview with Andy Schoengrund of Feral Light
[I’m] just taking the Icy black metal parts a bit further and the melodic parts a bit further.
Wolves in the Throne Room/Cloud Rat at Lee’s Palace – September 24th, 2016
Cloud Rat is always amazing and Wolves in the Throne Room was near transcendental.