Abyssvm – Poizon of god MMIX (2021)
Originally revealed to the public in 2008, a remastered edition of Poizon of god has been released in 2021 by Abyssvm under the auspices of The Black Flame (Northwind). The new…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Vocal Analysis: King Diamond
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…
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,…
On the purpose of modernism and the place of heavy metal
On his study on aesthetics titled Beauty, English philosopher Roger Scruton outlines the most noble mission for modern art to accomplish, if it does wish to attain greatness: "Moreover, there…
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The majestic beauty of Morbid Angel – “Desolate Ways”
In our previous analysis of "The Rack" by Asphyx, we noted that sometimes complexity paradoxically presents itself as elusive simplicity: the ascetic attempt at communicating as much as possible through…
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Arrangement Analysis: Asphyx – “The Rack”
Asphyx’s debut album is on the whole an undisputed classic of death-doom and underground metal in general, but for this time we’ll focus on the title track that finishes the…
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Arrangement Analysis: Sinister – “Awaiting The Absu”
On the band’s third full-length effort “Hate”, Sinister dropped their phrasal and maniacal approach to Death Metal and went for a more streamlined and focused work while still preserving extreme…