A cozy take on extreme music one brutally honest review at a time.
I may not look it, but I’m a metalhead with a soft spot for blast beats and bold opinions. Here you’ll find reviews of black metal and avant-garde albums that skip the hype and get straight to the gut. Spoiler alert – I like it weird. Whether you’re deep in the scene or just curious, you’re welcome here—no gatekeeping, just riffs.
Album Reviews and Ramblings
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Krallice’s Scour Order Tears Through the Dimensions to Reorder a Style That Bleeds Through
I first heard Krallice in ’09 with Dimensional Bleedthrough. I mainly gave it a listen because of how cool that cover is. The art on this one? I’m not as… Read more ⇢
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One goblin’s kazoo-powered descent into dementia during the Night of the Jick Beast ushers in Eggleston’s blark metal
I think the only way to describe this is one guy documenting his own downfall into insanity through music, mainly using a kazoo and channeling his inner goblin. Or he… Read more ⇢
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Lykhaeon’s Tanz der Entleibten remaster disembodies itself to dance with the dead.
2015 was a while ago and I was too busy to pay a lot of attention to new music. This popped up in my bandcamp feed… a remaster of and… Read more ⇢
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I’m a Willing Ally of Ædel Fetich’s Perverse Behaviors, and the Noble Fetishes that Produced Their Self-titled Album
This is fun. It’s punk, it’s folk, it’s black metal, and in a few spots calls on some glam (in the best way possible) and the genre crossing doesn’t feel… Read more ⇢
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This Tragic Theophany Feels Like a Pop Epiphany in Crystalline Thunderbolts Pierce the Sacred Mountain’s Angelic Realm…
This might be the happiest black metal (?) record I’ve ever heard, and it’s also one of the most grating. In the message from Gnaw their Tongues promoting it, it… Read more ⇢
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There’s an Agitating Tension for Something so Constant, as Little Stillness in Gorrch’s Stillamentum Is Mostly Momentum.
It’s good old blackmetal with lots of speed and style. Lots of stillness and momentum? Stimulation and tormentum? I’m sure there’s some meaning to the title, I mean I’m not… Read more ⇢
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A Disorienting Listen for Something So Familiar, as Eldjudnir’s Self Titled Remaster Abrades the Cleanliness in Favor of the Grime.
I came across Eldjudnir randomly a few years back. I don’t often find new albums that I put on repeat, but the 3rd album, the first I’d heard which is… Read more ⇢
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The invitation to Now I’ve Done It’s An Ill Guest was lovely, but I had to excuse myself early.
Do you like musical theater, Tim Burton movies, black metal and clean vocals? Then I have a new album for you. An Ill Guest by Now I’ve Done It will… Read more ⇢
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Put down the thesaurus because spouting adjectives does not make an album review.
I hate reading album reviews. They’re awful and at best, cringy. They don’t tell you much about the music but instead, drown in adjectives and strained metaphors, things like “a… Read more ⇢
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Ingurgitating Oblivion’s Ontology of Nought Promises Nothing but Delivers Everything
I’m pretty sure I saw and listened to a bit of this album when it dropped a few months back, but I skipped it. Likely I wasn’t in the right… Read more ⇢
