by Janet Willis
ATF is not your average USBM band by any stretch of the warped imagination, it’s vigilant and bestial archaic black metal with some melody and brooding , sometimes outright violent atmospheres that completely cover all classic ideals of black metal in its raw and natural form.
The following selections should give a slight [...]

By Isiamon of Immolith
Alright, I’ll be honest.  This was intended to be a review.  But instead what follows most likely qualifies as a rant more then a review.  So if you just want to hear the review part, you should skip ahead to the last paragraph…
Normally when I mention bands [...]

by Janet Willlis
Forged in similar flames of past glories and lost cultures as the Scandinavian hordes, this Quebec based trio blazenly sets their own black flames to their heritage through epic and majestic black metal. The usual descriptors: dense, foggy, foresty, atmospheric, mystical, epic, cold, frosty, grim…blah blah apply here, but there’s a Hell of [...]

by Brian Krasman (Meat, Mead, Metal)
Here goes one we’re just flat-out late in bringing to you, that being the sophomore effort “Murder the Mountains” from Red Fang. This band has been one that always had the chance to break out but for some reason hasn’t to this point. Maybe this effort, as well as that [...]

by Janet Willis
Flat out, this is some serious disturbed, perverted, sadistic and psychotic shit!!!!! I have yet to have been seriously convinced of someone being able to convey their experience of inflicting something so terrifying in audio that it could honestly be a Freudian slip of their sociopathic homicidal delusions taken beyond the point of [...]

By Isiamon of Immolith
Last September I interviewed an esoteric black metal band Rêx Mündi,  who had released their debut full length album through the French label Debemur Morti Productions.   This month I decided to review the latest offering from this label by another band that many might characterize as esoteric black metal, In Bondage to [...]

by Ray Henry (www.mouthforwar.net)
Man, I don’t think these dudes could have chosen a better moniker or style of death metal to play. The shit that oozes from Into the Grasp of the Starving Dead not only sounds like it was played from the depths of some deep, dank crypt, but it damn well feels it [...]

by Janet Willis
Bleeding Fist is for the serious old-school black metal fan with their own vile mixture of the first and second waves of black metal that’ll scorch the scalp right off your skull. Bleeding Fist is a refreshing return to form, back when the spirit and soul of the bands were to spread and [...]

By: Mike Abominator
These Southern California maniacs in Sanguis Imperem have been making some of the heaviest doomy AND grinding death metal that we have ever heard for quite a few years now. They remind me of some bastard child of Satan, Bolt Thrower and early Grave. The riffs are totally crushing and pulverizing. There is [...]

by Janet Willis
Every time this album comes on in my “reviews” playlist it reminds me a lot of the Finnish female solo act Cold who released that harsh and primitive scratchy black metal album “Anguished” last Winter on Hammer of Hate. The similarity is in the shriek of the vocals, it’s somewhere between a banshee [...]