Welcome once more to Kvlt Kolvmn. It’s that time again. The year has shed its final layer, curling itself into a corner and awaiting its imminent demise. Though, thankfully, not without plenty of bite left. It’s been a doozy of a year for all things metallic, with black metal being…
September was a damn good month for all things frostbitten and evil. Showcasing the genre’s insane breadth of style and influence more than in any month in recent memory, black metal showed up in a big way as the multi-faceted beast we’ve always known it was. The releases featured here are in majority some of our favorite of the year, and we hope you will share that sentiment. So feast your eyes and ears on the ridiculous bounty that was the month in black metal.
Listen: it’s no secret (because we choose not to make it a secret) that a vast majority of the writers and editors here at Heavy Blog belong to the left side of the political map. There are exceptions and there is variety; “the left” is not some monolithic, featureless plateau…
Black metal has reached a critical point in development and rapid expansion through the past decade that introduced interesting sonic experiments to an otherwise insular and esoteric genre. Artistic waves came and went, and what was once avant-garde became commonplace in the genre. For instance, Deathspell Omega’s dark and twisted approach…
There are few things in the world of music — for musicians, critics, and fans alike — that are as much equal parts necessary and frustrating to the point of being counterproductive as genre labels. We use them because they form a convenient shorthand, a way to categorize and file away the…
Three months deep into 2015, and it’s apparent that black metal is absolutely thriving. Many of the year’s best records thus far have been deeply rooted in the genre’s bleak and frozen tundra, and many more dotting the landscape of forthcoming records that are bound to be amazing. The beauty…
A Forest Of Stars are one of the most talented black/folk/progressive/whatever-you-want-to-call-them bands out there. Their last album A Shadowplay For Yesterdays received praise across the board, and much of our staff agreed that it was definitely an album you’d not want to miss. Now the band are gearing up to release a…
Welcome to the fifth part in our ongoing series of Heavy Blog Is Heavy’s “Best Of” selections where we explore a genre of music and each of our dedicated authors picks a favorite album to share a personal experience with. After mixing things up a bit with the previous list, we’ve decided…
A Forest Of Stars A Shadowplay For Yesterdays 01. Dimensionless Resurrectionist 02. Prey Tell Of The Church Fate 03. A Prophet For A Pound Of Flesh 04. The Blight Of God’s Acre 05. Man’s Laughter 06. The Underside Of Eden 07. Gatherer Of The Pure 08. Left Behind As Static 09.…
English black metal seems to be on the up lately. With bands like A Forest Of Stars, Fen, Old Corpse Road and Winterfylleth holding up the underground, it looks like we can all start getting over the fact that we were responsible for the creation of Cradle Of Filth! Jabs aside, Mancunian four-piece Winterfylleth return…
