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Kvlt Kolvmn // 2020 In Review

Jonathan Adams
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020, Kvlt Kolvmn
2020 felt in many ways like a perpetual winter of the soul. Thus far, 2021 feels little different. But time is a lie and black metal is forever. What a delightful truth that is. Below you will find our coll... Read More...

Heavy Blog Yearbook // Our Favourite Articles of 2020

Karlo Doroc
January 25, 2021
Best of 2020
Since 2017 we’ve been wrapping up our end-of-year coverage with a Yearbook encompassing our favourite articles from the year, pieces we can be proud of and look back on in the years to come as very best of wha... Read More...

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

Eden Kupermintz
December 7, 2020
Deep Dive
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...

Kvlt Kolvmn // November 2020

Jonathan Adams
November 9, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. Much has transpired since we last entered the ice walls of black metal’s highest quality tundra, so let’s get right to it.  Out... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

Jonathan Adams
October 5, 2020
Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn
Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. The weather is beginning to turn, leaves are falling in droves and the first pricks of cold are seeping into the air. It’s finally here... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog
August 7, 2020
Editors' Picks
We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn – July 2020

Jonathan Adams
August 5, 2020
Kvlt Kolvmn
Another month, another addition of the frostiest column on the planet. Kvlt Kolvmn has been having a field day in 2020, with some of the most trying circumstances globally being met with some thoroughly amazin... Read More...

Release Day Roundup – 7/17/20

Scott Murphy
July 17, 2020
Release Day Roundup
Editor’s Note: Longtime reader Remi VL is a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts! He submitted several of the albums listed below. Join his Facebook group for more recommen... Read More...

Mystras – Castles Conquered and Reclaimed

Eden Kupermintz
July 2, 2020
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Why use lo-fi production today? Sure, back in the day when black metal was starting out, lo-fi was less of an intentional thing and just a sign of the times and the means by which the people making the music m... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Get Ready To “Storm The Walls of Mystras”

Eden Kupermintz
April 1, 2020
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Listening to black metal can be frustrating in many ways but sometimes, the ways in which it is frustrating can also be very rewarding. For example, the element of obscurity and persona involved in black metal... Read More...

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