Tag: Black Metal
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Sometimes bands tweak the formula. Maybe sharpen the edges, swap a pedal, call it evolution. Einvigi chose to burn the whole thing to the ground and started again. The Finnish Post-Black Metal outfit return with Stigma, a new single and video that doesn’t feel like a step forward so much as a full-scale rebirth. This…
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Los Angeles extreme metal collective Ashen Horde are edging closer to the release of their fifth full-length album The Harvest, due May 1st, and they’ve just dropped a third taste of what’s coming in the form of Apparition. It follows earlier singles Entropy and Ecstasy and Voids in the Ash, and if those were warning…
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War isn’t subtle. Neither is this. Iselder have dropped Glory, the second single from their upcoming fifth full-length The 38th Division, due out June 1st via Marwolaeth Records. The album leans hard into the realities of conflict, no heroics, no victory laps, just the fallout. Across eight tracks, The 38th Division moves through destruction, collapse,…
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Those of you who have followed my work over the past year and change will know that a couple of months ago I closed down the Black Metal Archives. I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to. It broke my little black heart, but the facts were simple: I was burnt out. And the reason behind…