Norway is the promised land of the so called avantgarde black metal movement. Nowadays it actually seems that it’s harder to find traditional black metal from Norway than some kind of a weird jazz-pop-electronic-you-name-it influenced stuff. In Lingua Mortua was formed in 1999 but "Salon des Refusés" is just their second full-lenght album. Even though…
Vitsaus’ black metal has a Finnish trademark sound. The band’s like a bit boring version of Horna, raw and simple black metal. The interesting lyrics and the great inhuman vocals make this album worth checking out, but I’ll still rather listen to Horna when I need to get my daily dose of genuine Finnish black…
This French band includes members from such bands as Deathspell Omega (DsO’s ex-vocalist Shaxul) and Sael, so you can expect nothing but high-quality stuff from Annthennath. Unluckily the album isn’t too fascinating, it’s actually quite typical, melodic and fast black metal. Not bad at all, but just too typical. Hopefully the next album will be…
Oh boy, another USBM-band with N. Imperial on vocals! What a surprise! Seriously speaking, what makes this album interesting is that John Gelso, the Profanatica/Abomination/Contrivisti-madman has wrote the music and played all the instruments for RAB, so it’s not a wonder that I have an album full of strong and primitive death-ish black metal in…
A bunch of drunk Italian punks playing thrash metal with strong crust punkish touch. Expect nothing but constant d-beat, cheap riffs and boring songs. This has been done so many times and so much better before, so what for do we need this band? There must be the "Approved by Fenriz" -sticker on the cover…
I’ve never heard of Valoton before, and neither have you, I suppose. The reason is very simple: Valoton is a new black metal band from Finland and it’s built around a bunch of anonymous members. The band wasn’t obviously gathered for money and fame, but to spread their Satanic message in the deepest black metal…
