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Fighting Fire with Fire, Part II – Metal and Transgressive Love

December 7, 2020

Chrome marks "transgressive" as a spelling mistake. Or at least it did, I think I've since added it to its dictionary. This is a good indication that a term only seems "correct" to me because I picked it up du... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen To Forêt Endormie As They Visit “Les champs négligés”

Eden Kupermintz

July 3, 2020

Premieres

It's not every day that I get to premiere a classical music project sung and named entirely in French and also featuring some of my favorite voices in black metal adjacent spaces today. And yet, here we are. F... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn – June 2020

Jonathan Adams

July 1, 2020

Kvlt Kolvmn

Welcome to Kvlt Kolvmn. Another month of hell, another month of premium black metal. Our favorite places may be unsafe to visit, but icy soundscapes of death and evil are always a healthy substitute. Hope your... Read More...

Kaatayra – Nascido Sob o Signo Incivilizatório

Jordan Jerabek

December 5, 2019

Reviews

The sultry flora of Brazilian rainforests may not immediately come to mind as a focal point for incensed black metal, but Caio Lemos’ one-man project Kaatayra is well on the way to changing that. This project ... Read More...

Exulansis – Sequestered Sympathy

Eden Kupermintz

November 25, 2019

Reviews

"Arresting" is a word which should be used for music more often. That is just a convoluted way of saying that I wish more music was arresting. Since music accompanies me pretty much during everything I do, the... Read More...

Hey! Listen to Ashbringer!

Eden Kupermintz

November 11, 2019

Listen To This!

Technically, I could have made this post one of our Heavy Delinquency posts. Not because so long has passed since Ashbringer released their most recent album, Absolution, but because it's really too damn good ... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // July 2019

Jonathan Adams

August 7, 2019

Kvlt Kolvmn

I had my cursor hovering over the “Purchase” button for tickets to The Dark Knight Rises the night of the Century Aurora shooting. I grew up going to that theater, as it was about ten minutes away from my chil... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2019

Heavy Blog

August 6, 2019

Editors' Picks

July! What a terrible, awful month it is for anyone who suffers from the heat like I do. Actually, I've looked back on my previous two Editors' Picks from July and I complained about the heat and the summer th... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 7/19/19

Scott Murphy

July 19, 2019

Release Day Roundup

Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But wh... Read More...

Falls of Rauros – Patterns in Mythology

Eden Kupermintz

July 5, 2019

Reviews

One of the most elusive skills, a skill in dire need in metal especially, is the ability to balance between tension and release. It is in short supply everywhere, to be sure, since nailing the very subtle mome... Read More...

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