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Manowar – Battle Hymns (1982)
Still largely handheld by Judas Priest, Manowar shows us the budding epic power metal style we know and love them for.
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Celtic Frost – Monotheist (2006)
In many ways, Monotheist is the album that should have followed To Mega Therion if we lived in a perfect world, in a world where we could change past errors, erase our frivolous missteps and focus completely on the eternal work at hand.
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Celtic Frost – Into the Pandemonium (1987)
Upon reading the album’s title, and being acquainted with the previous one, To Mega Therion, we brace for a hellish adventure more harrowing and transforming.
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Celtic Frost – To Mega Therion (1985)
Celtic Frost makes a strange breakthrough with To Mega Therion. For one, they are faithful to the developments in Morbid Tales that come right out of Hellhammer and impose a more coherent form on it.
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Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales (1984)
While the music here is already streamlined as opposed to the jigsaw method of Hellhammer, chaotic energy still suffuses the way the instruments are played.
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SAMMATH – Zwaardbroeders Bij De Bergengte (1996)
Unlike the so-called third wave of black metal, the mid-to-late-90s wave of black metal showcased underground metal music at its purest and most essential. Bands like Sammath, Old Wainds, Setharial,…
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Ysyry Mollvün – Ysyry Mollvün (2022)
True to black metal’s interest in the archaic and what it can reveal to the onlookers of the present, Ysyry Mollvün turn to the distant past (and the remnants that…
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Elytron Frass & Charlse N. – VITIATORS
I would like to start this review of VITIATORS with a disclaimer. Manga does not figure as part of my reading. Not just my usual reading, but any reading at…
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Hastur Evocation – When Bestial Moans Compose a Sweet Symphony (1996)
Italy's scene of gothic infused extreme metal has given us a few classics over the years but also a large number of bands that would show some potential before disbanding…
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Regurgitation – Tales of Necrophilia (1999)
Guest Article by Malus After the death of the classic death metal scene, more extreme and experimental types of death metal were arising in the late 90s and early 00s.…