2020 - Hessian Firm

Some brief thoughts on Brutality and Monstrosity: twin gems from the Floridian underground

When a genre becomes as crowded as metal, the need for rigorous selection inevitably arises as a necessary mechanism to unearth the truly outstanding voices, and in that process certain…

By Raphael Alecto December 29, 2020Analysis

Analysis

Analysis: Graveland – “The Night of Fullmoon”

Graveland was the most high spirited of the many bands who took the pagan warfare theme as its core inspiration. While displaying bombastic pretensions from the beginning and by the…

By Raphael Alecto December 24, 2020Analysis

Label News Podcast

“Hessian Scrum” podcast, first entry: Goatcraft

Hessian Firm has just launched on its youtube channel the first episode of the podcast "Hessain Scrum", dedicated to the discussion of music and related topics with artists directly involved…

By Raphael Alecto December 21, 2020Label News, Podcast

Label News

Asgardsrei – “Dark Fears Behind the Door” up for pre-order

The full-length album "Dark Fears Behind the Door", by Phillipine black metal band Asgardsrei, is now on pre-order at Hessian Firm and will be released on the 29th of December,…

By Raphael Alecto November 30, 2020Label News

Review

Beherit – Bardo Exist (2020)

Legendary underground heroes Beherit return for another dark ambient work that builds on the unique style they presented on “H418ov21.C” and “Electric Doom Synthesis” but tempers it with a vast…

By Raphael Alecto November 16, 2020Review

Analysis

Analysis: Celtic Frost – “Dawn of Meggido”

Celtic Frost are universally recognized as one of the best and most influential extreme metal bands, having achieved in the seminal “To Mega Therion” one of the genre’s primary landmarks…

By Raphael Alecto November 7, 2020Analysis

Analysis

Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson are the archetypal Heavy metal singers, combining shrill tenor voices with prolonged mixed voice screams that still sounded very full and present despite the ascension…

By Nicholas Mkhl October 29, 2020Analysis

Analysis Lifestyle

The Silver Age of Metal

Among the most elitist circles of metal fans it is quite common to hear, for some time now, that nothing is as good as it was in the first era,…

By Guest Writer October 24, 2020Analysis, Lifestyle

Interview

Interview with Danny Cinicolo of Maleficarum

Italian art is known for being very emotional and dramatic, this comes through in Maleficarum’s music, was this by design or subconscious? Well in the period that I composed the…

By Nicholas Mkhl October 23, 2020Interview

Interview

Interview with Daniel Lake, Author of USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal

Decibel Books just announced their newest tome, ‘USBM: A Revolution of Identity in American Black Metal’, which will be released late November. For the first time, someone has interviewed innumerous…

By Guest Writer October 17, 2020Interview