Posted by Miguel Rozo on June 22, 2020
Dutch metal-horror maestros Carach Angren are back with one of their most ambitious works yet. Their new album titled Franckensteina Strataemontanus is a 12 track record filled with gruesome and bloody-soaking songs based on the life of Johann Conrad Dippel, a German Alchemist that was obsessed with the idea of eternal-life and that legend says it was […]
Posted by Jeff Podoshen on January 2, 2018
If you thought Watain was going towards a slightly mellower, softer sound after releasing 2013’s The Wild Hunt… you were wrong. 2018’s first major black metal release, Trident Wolf Eclipse, is not soft, nor mellow. It’s not even a little quiet. Instead, we see Watain head towards a filthy, mean, aggressive and downright nasty sound that […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on June 2, 2016
We could debate until the cows come home exactly which bands deserve the ‘underrated’ tag. Within each sub-genre there are literally dozens upon dozens of bands that the metal consensus cries foul about not getting their due. One such act in the black metal world who has been criminally overlooked lo these last two decades […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on May 26, 2016
They say seven is a lucky number. There’s also supposedly dark magic behind the number seven. Seven years of bad luck for a whole host of reasons, so say the superstitions. Maybe it’s the fact that it has been seven long years since their last full-length, studio album, but we should certainly count ourselves lucky […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on May 19, 2016
It’s been written at length, even in this space, about the varying long, strange trips that many US black metal musicians insist on taking the genre, often with mixed results. While the overt atmospherics and genre-bending can, at times, prove to be interesting and thought-provoking, it can also prove to be exhausting. Sometimes, especially where […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on May 13, 2016
Black and death metal have been kissing cousins for longer than anyone would probably care to admit. Even when the corpse painted legions of Scandinavia took over as the underground’s flavor of the month in the early to mid 90s, while death metal seemed to, in general, take the proverbial back seat, the two genres […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on May 5, 2016
Worshiping of the sun has been practiced for literally thousands of years and across various regions of the globe. The Ancient Egyptians obviously saw a large chuck of their religion revolve around that big, fiery ball in the sky. Various Native American tribes in North and South America held the sun in high importance, including […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on March 18, 2016
Spain may not be the hottest of metal hot beds, but the once former champion state of all things Catholicism has spat forth their fair share of musical blasphemy. However there may be no Spanish bands more blasphemous, none more downright savage in their musical leanings as the relatively new outfit, Suspiral. Fresh off the […]
Posted by Nick DeSimone on October 29, 2015
Amplified is a weekly column focusing on new and emerging artists. Got a band that fits the bill? Email amplified@metalinsider.net. It’s almost Halloween! Given the spooky time of year, throw on some corpse paint and listen to a little black metal. Today’s Amplified band is Finland’s Endzeit with their EP Years of Hunger. This is very Emperor-influenced […]
Posted by Chip McCabe on October 23, 2015
We all know the old, existential adage about a tree falling in the woods. It still makes a sound, even if no one is around to hear it. But what about the sound of pure evil? What if pure, unadulterated evil made a sound? Would we hear it? The answer to that question, if you’ve […]
