Year: 2020

If I were a director (or as the French say: metteur en scène) I’d use each song of this album for the following scenes (in different movies). Fortunately I am not Michael Haneke, who is […]

Namedroppin’ anyone? Say “yes” and visit the Termo Records page. Say “no” and go on reading. “Salon Des Refusés” by Norwegian all “star” band IN LINGUA MORTUA is out now and there are various details […]

Continuing the trend of Finish avant-garde black metal from last week’s Oranssi Pazuzu, this week we present to you with the similarly placed, similarly skilled and similarly styled quintet of Ikuinen Kaamos. The idea of […]

Ihsahn is a man that needs no introduction, especially in within the (black) metal realms. His solo project picks up from the progressive pathway he had stopped with Emperor’s Prometheus – The Discipline of Fire & […]

A new Ihsahn album is always something of an event. By the time Emperor had reached their last album, the band was basically an extreme vehicle for the musical avenues Ihsahn had explored with Thou […]

I suppose there is much controversy going on about Ihsahn: Whether you are true/untrue to like/dislike PECCATUM, whether EMPEROR ceased to exist after or before “IX Equilibrium”, whether or not he is a genius composer […]

Just a short noise, and straight to its hyperkinetic business. It sounds like symphonic black metal battling it out with technical death metal. Only when the vocals kick in (a misanthropic rasp) that the black […]

There isn’t really much that can be said about this album that you can’t read out from the cover artwork. Look at it. A muscly-armed iguana-fish-man with moth wings, in deep red flames, slicing open […]

I cannot see how anyone into the post-black/avantgarde metal scene of the 90’s – the Norwegian one in particular – could not find this long forgotten gem quite the thrilling experience, even if the music […]

A rich synth starts out the album. It dives right into the meat of “Blood Tears”, which is a dark and extremely heavy slice of eerie classic sounding death metal. The sound is sculpted in […]