Arde – Ancestral Cult 9/10 Berlins Arde have taken the term of Dense Black metal and built upon it. they have created an album of organic heaviness that revolves around the central concept of ancient cults and goddesses. The struggle of women over time is represented by an album that oozes atmosphere and a penchant for creating utterly heavy music. Sile is the only calm amongst the raging storm a haunting 90 second interlude that features

Autokrator – Persecution 9/10 French outfit Autokrator follow up the acclaimed 2018” Hammer of the Heretics” with the unrelenting Persecution. Autokrator don’t just play brutal death metal for shock and awe, they have intent, intelligence and meaning. It is savage and barbaric in its execution. Couple that with exemplary musicianship, especially that of drummer Kevin Paradis and you have a precise intense musical killing machine t

The Formation of Signs of Tranquility …. “This project started with compositions Justin Davis (Drummer/Samples) had been creating since 2013. Kaylie Haynes (Lead Vocals) and Kevin Shaw (Guitar) joined in March 2019, and the creative chemistry became instantly apparent as we began to work on the music together. Jace Pembroke (Bass) finalized the original line-up, and we went into the studio late that year to start recording our self-titled album. We focused pretty heavily on r

Vahrzaw - The Trembling Voices of Conquered Men 9/10 To label Vahrzaw Death/Black metal you’d be right but also wrong. Very wrong. The opening riff to Vultures is a combination of pure Teutonic/death thrash metal with some excellent METAL solos to raise the hair on your neck! The pure metal they bring to Waiting with the Wolves is mighty headbanging glory along with some neck snapping time changes and glorious tight riffing. The Trembling Voices of Conquered Men is a massiv

Max Johnson (Guitars /Keyboards) ‘’ I started writing music under the name of Noltem in 2003 or 2004. The “Hymn of the Wood” demo came out in 2005. These songs were the result of my first attempts to write music as a solo artist. I had only performed as a guitarist in a couple of local bands up until this point. Noltem disbanded for quite some time. the idea and or inspiration for it to return? ‘’My friend Bob Davis was releasing some really interesting hand-made cassette tap

‘’The idea for the project and some of the material had been ripening for a very long time. For a number of reasons, I did not have the resources for a long time to put everything together and decide to do what I wanted for a long time. I was passionate about my other projects in other genres. And this is a big plus. Over the years, experience, skills and inspiration have grown. The project was born when the optimal time came for it. From me on the debut album composing of al

Velsingard (All Instruments and Compositions) ‘’Having come from a background of primarily death metal, I think these songs came from the in between. After I released what I thought was my last album in 2007, I started to mostly listen to black metal with Naglfar being the gate way drug into the realm of black metal. Prior to that, black metal had no place for me. Fast forward to 2018 when I started writing songs for the new Apostisy album, everything I wrote sounded more lik

‘ ''The sound was inspired by movies I have seen that included horror and fear. I am fascinated by dark folklore and hidden stories. I incorporated this concept into the music, but also somehow mesmerizing the listener (this was most notable on my album "Hypogeum Of The Netherworld") ‘’What inspired me to play Black Metal was from listening to many underground bands since I was 11. I was exposed to extreme genres at a young age. It inspired me to make such extreme music somed

Congratulations on Dahoam. It’s your third album in as many years, are you going through a very creative period? Waldgeflüster: I do not count “Stimmen im Wind” as a regular album. This was just a rerecording that we did on the sideline. It wasn’t a creative project, more a doing project. We did this whenever we had some spare time. So I would say our creativity is no more or less than it has been for the last 15 years. After everything around Mondscheinsonaten settled down