Keepers · 03/02/2024
Hellripper aka James McBain is currently touring with Abbath and Toxic Holocaust. He was in Hamburg just a couple of days ago. Had I listened to this album a bit earlier, I might have gone and bought myself a ticket just to see the support act. Hellripper is a one-man band from Scotland formed in 2014. Since 2014 McBain has released three studio albums, two EPs and various splits. His third and latest studio album Warlocks Grim & Withered Hags was released in February 2023 and met with...
Keepers · 18/12/2023
DSBM 101: French misery, 10-minute looped riffs, and the kind of vocals that sound like your soul clawing at the walls. Let’s talk Reflections of a Sad Soul.
Genre Tourism · 17/11/2023
Black metal has long flirted with taboo — but where’s the line between provocation and poison? This article digs into NSBM, ideological red flags, and why doing your homework matters more than ever.
Keepers · 14/11/2023
Ah, melodic black metal. Just got to love it, right? Seriously, there is not much music I can enjoy quite as much as melodic black metal (apart from Type O of course, they are unmatched so far). After Mgła's Exercises in Futility got me back on track, I decided to continue down this road for now and from Mgła it is not far to UADA from Portland. UADA was founded in 2014 by Jake Superchi who is also the vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the band and the only remaining founding member today. So...
Keepers · 10/11/2023
It's been quiet on my metal blog as I've been quite occupied with my other writing project. I'm still totally batshit crazy about Type O Negative and listen to hardly anything else most days. My friend's husband decided it was time to hustle things along and sent me his favourite metal albums. This resulted in an impressive Spotify Playlist of 24 hours and 22 minutes. As a girl has to start somewhere, I picked the band whose name I couldn't pronounce at first: Mgła. Mgła is a Polish black...
Keepers · 13/04/2023
111 days till W:O:A 2023. I am staying in Iceland with Sólstafir. It was impossible for me to pick one album for the sake of this blog article. I've been all over the place with Sólstafir and I love everything I've heard so far. And I think this is part of Sólstafir's secret power. Their music is less about being contained to one album, one concept, one story. Their music is about atmosphere. About feelings. It is music to think to, to let your mind wander, to flee to other realms.
Keepers · 09/01/2023
Well, this album totally caught me off guard. By recommendation of a friend, I picked out A New Generation of Vampiric Conspiracies (2021) by Californian black metal band Old Nick. It was the first album I listened to in 2023 and BOY did it blow my mind.
Keepers · 05/01/2023
I stumbled about this album by chance. I played it once. I played it twice. I've been listening to it all day. It is one of those hidden gems I keep finding during my journey through metal. It is the answer to the question "What do you like about black metal?"
Keepers · 12/11/2022
262 days till W:O:A 2023. Carpathian Forest - a prominent name in black metal that even I've come across more than once during my research. Formed in 1992 by Nattefrost and Nordavind they are part of the second wave of black metal and have been around for 30 years by now. However, it has been quiet around Nattefrost and Carpathian Forest withing the last decade. Carpathian Forest's last studio album was released in 2006. In 2018 they have released EP Likeim, announcing a new album to be...
Genre Tourism · 07/11/2022
268 days till W:O:A 2023. Abbath - not a name I was familiar with until recently, but certainly one of the big names in black metal. Ole Eikemo aka Abbath Doom Occulta or just Abbath was a founding member of legendary Norwegian Black Metal Band Immortal, but also played a part in several other metal projects. One of those projects was "I", formed in 2006 and their to this day only album Between Two Worlds which I came across by chance a couple of weeks ago. I instantly connected with the epic...