Tag Archives: black metal

Situated along the Oder River, once part of Bohemia, long fought over and now residing partly in Chezoslavakia but more so Poland is Silesia and where a band called Devilpriest hail from. The band features Tom Hermies on guitars and vocals, Durtal Tot on guitars and bass and Necro Docre on drums, and on 10th November they release their debut ...

The metal word owes a lot to black Norwegian metal progressive leviathans Enslaved for their 26 years of service. 14 albums in and there still doesn’t seem to be an end to their limitless well of creativity. E certainly marks a milestone in the life and times of Enslaved, as they surely head towards the pantheon of immortality.

In Twilight’s Embrace will release their fourth full-length, Vanitas, on 22nd September 2017 through Arachnophobia Records. It is being described as the band’s darkest material to date, both lyrically and musically. “Having confronted several deaths of family members and friends, made me realise the true weight of mortality,” confessed vocalist, Cyprian Lakomy. “The realisation paved the way for reflections which would ...

Dom Zly release their self-titled debut EP through Unquiet Records on the 13th October. Dom Zly translates as “Bad House” in Polish, and it’s from Pulawy in that country where the band formed in autumn 2016. Featuring Krzysztof D (vocals), Grzegorz N and Lukasz W (guitars), Mariusz A (bass)and Grzegorz K (drums) who are also members of bands like Kaldera, ...

Almost two years since the release of Anxiety Never Descending their debut album, death metal act Kult Mogil return with a new EP Portentaque. Scheduled for release on 29th September 2017 through Pagan Records and featuring artwork by Jose Gabriel Alegría Sabogaland and layout by Mentalporn. It will be available on CD, 12” vinyl (45 rpm) and Gabriel Alegría Sabogal ...

Texas sludge/noise metal group Crawl bring us their latest opus, This Sad Cadv’r. This Sad Cadav’r is made up of three tracks, each simply titled ‘I’, ‘II’ and ‘III’. Maybe because it doesn’t need to go any further –  the songs easily speak for themselves. This EP is dark, dank and depraved. It is roughly 30 minutes of heavy, slow, ...

It was over two decades ago when black metal began to take a hold on the music scene in Poland. Bands such as Behemoth, Lux Occulta and Sacrilegium came to the forefront, as Thy Worshiper whose 1997 release Popiól (Introibo ad altare Dei) is being reissued by Arachnophobia Records. Remastered by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio with new design work, the band are still active ...

Listening to many new albums as I do from RAMzine, I always find myself reviewing more foreign bands, maybe that’s because I love hearing various languages sung to some of my favourite genres, not the fact I have to give Google Translate a visit, as half the time it doesn’t give a good translation but at least it points you ...

Mord’A’Stigmata release Hope, a follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed Ansia album on 17th February 2017 through Pagan Records. Originating from Poland’s ever-blooming black metal underground in 2004 and helmed by guitarist, composer and main visionary, Static, the band has maintained a reasonable distance from the main routes extreme music has followed, forming its identity year by year. Recorded at Studio 67 and featuring cover artwork by Bartek ...

Furia, pioneers of nekro folk, a blend of black metal and European folk music, have released their fifth album Ksiezyc Milczy Luty – that roughly translates as “Moon Silent Severe” – on Pagan Records. Two years since their previous full length release, Nocel, the six tracks that encompass Ksiezyc Milczy Luty were recorded at Czysciec Studio and mixed by the band’s ...