The work of one selfsame Häxär, concurrently of Ernte, HÄXÄR are a lone torch of Swiss black metal. Now, after two albums in as many years, HÄXÄR present their third album of turn-of-the-millennium nastiness: Teufelskult. Ripped raw and ripping, Teufelskult possesses that dead-but-alive electricity that so earmarked many a Moonfog release as Y2K approached. One could erroneously describe it as "industrialized" or even "robotic," but there's indeed bleeding humanity coursing through every treble-drenched note of HÄXÄR's third attack. More accurately, perhaps, this singed-circuits style of black metal is NECROTIC to the core: harshing out something otherwise polished or polishing something unremittingly harsh, either way arriving at the vintage antagonism of Teufelskult. Above all, the songwriting itself is second-wave classicism sprinkled with a touch of the hooliganism of the modern Teutonic school, or maybe an Alpine analog of Mütiilation's idiom-defining Black Millenium (Grimly Reborn). These references serve not to undercut HÄXÄR's creativity, but rather to underscore the rarefied territory in which Teufelskult is traveling. Get lost like it's 1999!
Dunkle, mystische Melodien weben sich schicksalshaft durch die Kompositionen, verschmelzen mit der endlosen Nacht und lassen die Schatten alter Legenden durch die verlassene, von Nebel umhüllte Landschaft wandern.
The band draws inspiration from the dark and swampy Swedish forests to create a combination of old school black metal and the horrific aspects of Scandinavian folklore
Endlich, RUNENWACHT sind zurück mit einem neuem Album " Das letzte Geleit". Inhaltlich widmen sich die zehn Stücke erneut der nordischen und heidnischen Mythologie. Auch zentrale Themen der Edda – der bedeutenden Sammlung von Götter- und Heldensagen – finden ihren Platz und verleihen dem Album eine tiefere mythologische Dimension.
The War dogs unleash a militant era of Satanic terror! Grim, totalitarian Black Metal from France/ Portugal, featuring Kommanders Noktu (Drakkar Prod.) and Horrendus (Corpus Christi)
Following last year's masterful debut album, Der Wald zwischen den Welten, GRANITADER continue to storm the ramparts with the three-song / 16-minute Schlachtenklang
Across the album's 41 minute (fantastical) landscape are spread lyrics of splendorous mythology, swords & sorcery, vast forgotten realms brought to life through wily, wanderlusting black metal betraying a noble melodicism
Mit „Sankareiden Maa“ feiert das mittlerweile nach Finnland übersiedelte Projekt des Linzers Hugin das 25-jährige Jubiläum und legt dafür nun ein volles Album vor. Feinster Pagan Black Metal.