Beyond any generic definition, this is extreme. Extreme metal, extreme music, extreme humanity. Although the impression given at times, of gauntness and plainness of black metal, Bethlehem’s music contains the most fragile and utter low […]
Betlehem’s masterpiece “Sardonischer Untergang im Zeichen irreligiöser Darbietung” (in short: S.U.I.Z.I.D.) from 1997 is one of the strangest spawns, which ever arose from the German extreme metal underground. Thousands of bands (not worth the bytes […]
What’s this? Avantgarde-Pagan-Metal? Can’t be! That’s what I thought when I read the description for a new BERGTHRON-album. The former albums of one of the – at least in my humble opinion – few interesting […]
The idea to invite the ghost into my tiny apartment came from out of nowhere, yet with deadly consequence. I prefer spectres and spirits to common folk, at least as long they have manners. The […]
When one begins his departure towards death, this journey is bound to open in deep silence, of reckonings to come. Cleaning mind and soul is highly necessary before diving into this faraway yet incredibly close […]
As someone who has heard many a strange band in my time, there are few who can make me sit up and really think “Okay, what the hell just happened there?”. Behold…The Arctopus are one […]
“Blood on Ice” is one of the essential metal albums, being both the termination point of black metal and the beginning of Viking metal, years before either sound became full-fledged genres. Some might argue about […]
“Starfire Burning” was my first foray into the pulp fantasy universe of Bal-Sagoth. Somehow a college radio station in Las Vegas got a hold of a promo and put it into heavy late-night rotation. And […]
In my opinion (which counts for a lot in some parts of rural Honduras), “Battle Magic” remains the crown jewel of the Bal Sagoth filmography. I say filmography because Bal Sagoth albums are multimedia experiences […]
Lo and behold! The Britonic war-gods do descend anew, to grace us once again with their mighty and epic sagas of gloriously cataclysmic battlefields, arcane scriptures of ageless unnameable horrors, the fall of aeon-old civilisations… […]
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