Tag Archives: Black Metal

Artist: Plague Weaver Album Title: Ascendant Blasphemy Label: Independent Release Date of Release: 26 February 2021 It’s funny how there are albums you’ll start listening to and you’ll think early on ‘this really isn’t my thing’ and yet, half an hour or more later, you find that you’re still listening. And, what’s more, you find  Continue Reading »

Artist: Einherjer Album Title: North Star Label: Napalm Records Date of Release: 26 February 2021 Judging by the number of big names and big albums that are coming from the Napalm Records stable, they must be considered one of the biggest players in the metal world these days. The next in a seemingly endless stream  Continue Reading »

Artist: Humanity’s Last Breath Album Title: ‘Välde’ Label: Unique Leader Records Date of Release: 12 February 2021 I feel like I have been misled a little regarding this particular release. I had never heard of Humanity’s Last Breath until a few weeks ago. However, their new album popped into my inbox and, seduced by the  Continue Reading »

Artist: Forhist Album Title: Forhist Label: Debemur Morti Productions Date of Release: 26 February 2021 Another day in 2021, another self-titled album to bring you. This time, it is the turn of Forhist to find itself front and centre of my gaze. I generally find that there are two reasons for an album being self-titled;  Continue Reading »

Artist: Empyrium Album Title: Über den Sternen Label: Prophecy Productions Date of Release: 26 February 2021 I have a soft spot for Empyrium, so much so that I splurged a great deal of money on the box set ‘A Retrospective…’ a few years ago. Starting out as more of a melodic black metal band, the  Continue Reading »

Artist: Tribulation Album Title: Where The Gloom Becomes Sound Label: Century Media Records Date of Release: 29 January 2021 I may not be as well versed as many of you out there in the ways of Tribulation, having only ‘discovered’ them in 2018 via ‘Down Below’, but news of a new a new album still  Continue Reading »

2020 was a rubbish year, but a killer one in terms of new music. Unperturbed by events around the world, many artists brought their ‘A’ game to the studio to record excellent new music, music we all hope we’ll hear from a stage at some point in 2021. Fingers crossed. To underline my point about  Continue Reading »

Having now completed my Album of the Year 2020 Top 30 Countdown, I thought I’d briefly turn my attention to the best individual songs of the year. As with the Top 30 series, this is a list of my personal favourite songs. They might not be the most technical, clever, or complicated songs of the  Continue Reading »

Welcome to day ten of my 2020 ‘Album of the Year Top 30 countdown’. I’m now one third of the way through my series, and there’s no sign of fatigue or boredom from me. In fact, the longer this goes on, the more excited I become as we get closer and closer to the top  Continue Reading »

  Artist: Mörk Gryning Album Title: Hinsides Vrede Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 23 October 2020 I happen to be one of those that really love the debut from this Swedish black metal band. The name of that debut was ‘Tusen År Har Gått’ and I discovered it via a compilation album that  Continue Reading »