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Reviews for Hellripper - Coagulating Darkness

What is it with one man armies in the past few years? Seriously, how can one guy make something that will blow everything that legends like Destruction or Venom put out? This band is arguably one of ...

12th Jun, 2021
Score:
91% 4.6 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Këkht Aräkh - Pale Swordsman

As one can guess from the sole member's name (Crying Orc), this band is another among the thousands of Old School melancholic, monotone Black Metal bands that worship Burzum, and the myriads of bands ...

10th Jun, 2021
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Helleruin - War upon Man

After releasing some promising EPs and demos, Helleruin finally released their awaited debut earlier this year. The final result was pretty much as anyone can expect after listening to the EPs and ...

10th Jun, 2021
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Stormruler - Under the Burning Eclipse

I encountered this album on YouTube and immediately assumed that this was a Swedish band. When I checked out their Metal-Archives page I was a bit shocked to find out that this is actually a band ...

8th Jun, 2021
Score:
89% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Ancient Mastery - The Chosen One

Based on a recommendation, I had the pleasure (or displeasure!) of listening to this band's debut full-length (titled "Chapter One: Across the Mountains of the Drämmarskol") a while back. ...

8th Jun, 2021
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Forteresse - Thèmes pour la Rébellion

Years ago, I came across this band's debut album, "Métal Noir Québécois", and I absolutely loved the old school 90s sound on it. I especially liked the way they created this old ...

7th Jun, 2021
Score:
86% 4.3 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Forteresse - Thèmes pour la Rébellion

A pure masterpiece, this is what this album is. I have never heard something like this before. The first time I listened to this, I was shocked. I was like, how is it possible to make something this ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
Warblackmetal666
Reviews for Wayfarer - A Romance with Violence

After the excellent "World's Blood" released back in 2018, I was eager to hear the follow-up for that album with high anticipation. And although this album showed a bit of a shift away from the ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
91% 4.6 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Wayfarer - World's Blood

In my previous reviews for the first two Wayfarer albums, I mentioned that this is one of the best albums that captured the essence of great U.S. Atmospheric Black Metal bands, such as ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
93% 4.7 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Wayfarer - Old Souls

The second Wayfarer album pretty much continues where the debut left off. The lyrical themes, the vocals, the rhythm section, are all pretty much the same as before, however; there are some minor ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Wayfarer - Children of the Iron Age

Fact: There are more American Black Metal bands than in the Scandinavian countries combined! But out of all these countless bands, there has never been a proper distinguishable movement from the ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
86% 4.3 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Varde - Asgaardsreien

Varde is sort of a Black Metal mini-supergroup, formed in 2017 (well, two of the three members were session musicians for some well-known bands, such as Tvangeste and Dødheimsgard). Alright, ...

6th Jun, 2021
Score:
89% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Dark Funeral - Where Shadows Forever Reign

First of all, let's start this review with a fact check; if you have read any of my reviews on this website, you can easily realize that I'm not a reviewer, and you will be right! I'm not, and I'm ...

5th Jun, 2021
Score:
91% 4.6 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure

I'm going to be honest, this album is good, but it is overrated a lot and, in my personal opinion, it is far from being the best black metal album. I'm going to explain you why I think that. Firstly, ...

4th Jun, 2021
Score:
80% 4.0 star rating
Review by
Warblackmetal666
Reviews for Portal - Avow

Portal was one of the major influencers of expressionistic guitar techniques used in Death Metal of the 2000s and 2010s (this experimental approach can be compared to that of Deathspell Omega). ...

3rd Jun, 2021
Score:
90% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Obskuritatem - Hronika iz Mraka

You don't need a PhD to understand the music of Obskuritatem on any of their releases. It's very primitive, very raw, very ugly, with a huge amount of feelings attached to it. Their previous albums ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
87% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Deogen - The Endless Black Shadows of Abyss

Symphonic Black Metal is arguably the biggest divisive little moment in Black Metal history. The veterans and the fans have always been telling us that this progression with added keyboards and added ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
90% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Akhlys - Melinoë

The second Black Metal offering from Akhlys continues in the same manner of complementing Melodic / Symphonic / Atmospheric ideas with more intense and extreme Black Metal approaches. As a whole, the ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
89% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Akhlys - The Dreaming I

Akhlys started out as an ambient band, however, after releasing one mediocre ambient album, they ditched the idea of full-on ambient music and incorporated that ambient background into a unique ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
92% 4.6 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)

You can't talk about Austrian Black Metal without mentioning the name "ABIGOR"! This band is arguably one of the first pioneers of the more technical side of Black Metal that we have today. Their 90s ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
88% 4.4 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Slutet - Love & Beauty

After releasing a bunch of extremely obscure, psychedelic influenced demos, Slutet finally released their debut last year. Although most people regard this as an Avant-garde release, I find this album ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
91% 4.6 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Mamaleek - Come & See

Mamaleek is a band currently based in the States, but has an unknown Middle-Eastern origin. It consists of two brothers as its members (the identity of which is unknown too!). Having this sort of ...

2nd Jun, 2021
Score:
89% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Fuath (GBR) - II

II

I was a big fan of the first Àrsaidh album, and the 2016 Saor album was a fine album indeed. I didn't much dig the first Fuath album though, it was too "melodic" for my taste! After seeing ...

1st Jun, 2021
Score:
83% 4.2 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for Cruel Force - The Rise of Satanic Might

When you first start to listen to this album, and you hear that Venom-like chant on the first track, you immediately realize that this was made by people who were obsessed with Old School Black Metal ...

1st Jun, 2021
Score:
89% 4.5 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
Reviews for The Ruins of Beverast - Rain upon the Impure

Prior to listening to this album, I listened to this band's previous effort years and years ago (as a result of being exposed to Nagelfar). After the first listen to that album ("Unlock the Shrine"), ...

1st Jun, 2021
Score:
100% 5.0 star rating
Review by
PeaceThroughAnarchy
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