When heavy metal was still in its infancy, before it was even a genre really, it was already assimilating new sounds and pushing its boundaries outward. In 1971, Japan’s innocuously named Flower Travellin’ Band was already subjecting […]
In 2000, Fleurety moved into more ambitious terrain with “Department of Apocalyptic Affairs,” a convoluted genre-spanning event with special guest stars from the Norwegian black metal scene (Maniac, Garm, Hellhammer, et al.). The songs are […]
Min Tid Skal Komme (1995) is like black metal run through a post punk filter, with rock breakdowns surfacing amid long stretches of caustic black metal fury and a groove-oriented sensibility pervading throughout. While Alexander Nordgaren’s […]
Evereve had the misfortune of releasing their first album in an age before the concept of avant-garde metal took off, that brief window in the mid-nineties when metal was starting to get its feet wet […]
With “Vertebrae,” Enslaved present their most ambitious and developed album yet, and one of the most convincing agglomerations of progressive rock and metal to date. Right from the start you know the band has achieved […]
Just in case you ever wanted to know what Bartok-esque symphonic music and brutal death metal sound like in a blender with a few other ingredients thrown in for flavor (nineties techno, EBM, cartoon music, […]
The legendary art rockers Devil Doll (not to be confused with the American rockabilly band of the same name) have influenced just about every weird, theatrical or gothic metal band in Europe, and yet they are still […]
“Focus” (1993) is a kind of milestone for extreme metal. If you wanted ten metal albums placed in a time capsule of Greatest Moments in Metal History, Cynic would be a no-brainer. This website specializes […]
Ah, “Solar Lovers.” Hands down my favorite doom metal album ever, “Solar Lovers” is the gem in the Celestial Season crown. Resting between the too-ornate debut album and the extravagantly drugged excesses of the latter […]
The latest chapter in a series of LPs released by Botanist, the brainchild of Bay Area music savant and naturalism-enthusiast Otrebor, Flora marks a significant step forward for the “black metal with a hammered dulcimer” concept. The […]
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