Tag Archives: blackgaze
Bizarrekult – Den Tapte Krigen – Album Review
Artist: Bizarrekult Album Title: Den Tapte Krigen Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 27 January 2023 The only problem with pacing myself with my reviews, is that I have to apologise a lot more, for delays in getting them written and published. If I go hell for leather as I did in 2022, I Continue Reading »
Sylvaine – Nova – Album Review
Artist: Sylvaine Album Title: Nova Label: Season Of Mist Date of Release: 4 March 2022 Whenever Season Of Mist drop a promo into my lap, I find it rude not to dive straight in for a listen, even if it is for an artist about which I previously knew very little. They are a label Continue Reading »
The Best Songs of 2021
As in years before, I wanted to round off 2021 with a quick look at some of the best individual songs that I heard during 2021. As with my recent 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 »
Album Of The Year 2021 – Number 5
Welcome to Day 26 of my Album Of The Year 2021 Top 30 Countdown series. So, here we are. After more than three weeks, I have arrived at the final five – the five best albums of 2021 as far as I’m concerned. Trends and peer pressure be damned, these are the five records that Continue Reading »
MØL – Diorama – Album Review
Artist: MØL Album Title: Diorama Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 5 November 2021 The very thought of black metal being uplifting and positive is pretty much heresy, certainly if you listen to those that consider themselves to be ‘trve’ black metal fans. And yet, here I am, listening to ‘Diorama’, the second album from Continue Reading »
Mariana’s Rest – Fata Morgana – Album Review
Artist: Mariana’s Rest Album Title: Fata Morgana Label: Napalm Records Date of Release: 12 March 2021 I’ll admit that Mariana’s Rest are a new name to me despite this 2021 release entitled ‘Fata Morgana’ being their third full-length offering. But when you’re presented with a doom-infused melodic death metal album from Finland, which features the Continue Reading »
Empyrium – Über den Sternen – Album Review
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 »
An Autumn For Crippled Children – All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet – Album Review
Artist: An Autumn For Crippled Children Album Title: All Fell Silent, Everything Went Quiet Label: Prosthetic Records Date of Release: 1 May 2020 If ever there was a band with a name that is the equivalent of shooting themselves in the head, it is this one. An Autumn For Crippled Children (henceforth referred to as Continue Reading »
Pure Wrath – The Forlorn Soldier – EP Review
Artist: Pure Wrath Album Title: The Forlorn Soldier Label: Debemur Morti Productions Date of Release: 6 March 2020 Consider this to be yet another excellent new discovery at the beginning of 2020, a year of some already great new discoveries. Before I received this EP, entitled ‘The Forlorn Soldier’, I had no clue as to Continue Reading »
Alcest – Spiritual Instinct – Album Review
Artist: Alcest Album Title: Spiritual Instinct Label: Nuclear Blast Date of Release: 25 October 2019 I have been a long-term admirer and fan of Alcest; their blend of black metal and shoegaze struck an early chord with me and I’ve loved them ever since. I’ve always been a sucker for heavy music that’s extreme but Continue Reading »
