Black Metal
Black Metal · 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...
Black Metal · 18/12/2023
I sometimes find myself shying away from writing articles about certain music. Mostly music I am not sure how to describe. Totally the case with Nocturnal Depression's album Reflections of a Sad Soul. But as I've listened to this album on repeat for over a week now, there is now way I cannot write about it. So here we go. I came across Nocturnal Depression when researching the black metal subgenre Depressive Suicidal Black Metal (DSBM). DSBM is an umbrella term for an arrangement of metal...
Black Metal · 17/11/2023
This is a difficult article to write, because it is a very sensitive topic and yet I felt the need to write it. I started this blog nearly two years ago and while I have recently mostly written about certain albums I enjoyed or concerts I've been to, I had originally looked into the history of metal as well. And as I've been listening to various black metal bands in the last year, there is one topic that kept creeping up on me. As much as I've tried to push it aside, it needed looking into and...
Black Metal · 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...
Black Metal · 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...
Black Metal · 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.
Black Metal · 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?"
Black Metal · 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...
Black Metal · 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...
Black Metal · 07/09/2022
After Cradle of Filth's Midian totally blew my mind, Dimmu Borgir was only a stone's throw away. Cradle of Filth and Dimmu Borgir are probably two of the most disputed black metal bands, dismissed and scorned by die-hard black metal fans and vastly successful with the general public. Dimmu Borgir was formed in 1993 by Silenoz (lead vocals, rhythm guitar) and Tjodalv (lead guitar). Shagrath (then on drums) joined the band soon after in 1994 together with Brynyard Tristan (bass) and Stian Aarstad...