Two years after previous album, one man project from Los Angeles returns with fourth album. The project was created in 2004 in South Korea, where Reaver (by the way, a native of Kansas City), the only participant, served in the army (there was nothing to do there, people played black). By the way, if you look closely, the project is not one man. Drums, bass and even cello prescribed session, which only played in favor of the album. It came out fast, atmospheric and very beautiful. For me, he flies off to possible candidates on the spot in the top of the year.
Atmospheric Black Metal Art (Exclusively) for dreamers and lone wolves alike: GREVE are handily creating their own niche within an already exclusive niche. Föllo af Svavel, Lifvets Dimridå is their latest monument by which to launch journeys to the stars and/or into the self.
An aptly titled record no matter the language, Naturmystik brings together two modern stalwarts of mystical black metal. HÄXANU - whose acclaimed second album, Totenpass, was released last year by AMOR FATI - is the duo of multi-instrumentalist Alex Poole (Chaos Moon, Krieg, Skáphe, Ringarė, etc) and vocalist/lyricist L.C. of Lichmagick.
Hier kommt Black Metal aus Deutschland. Im Ankündigungsschreiben zum zweiten Album von FULLMOON RITES wird erwähnt, dass der Kopf hinter dem Projekt bereits in mehreren Death-Metal-Bands aktiv ist und war. Namen, die mir allerdings gänzlich unbekannt sind. Das tut der Sache jedoch keinen Abbruch, denn „Ad Lucifer Aeternum Gloriam“ spricht für sich selbst.
This is the very first album released by true Norwegian black metallers Emperor. As one of the founding fathers of the symphonic wing of the genre, Emperor have a highly dramatic sound, balancing melodic dark synth melodies with ferocious howling forward movement. 'In The Nightside Eclipse' is reissued via ICARUS.