Creating an ambient album is a very daunting task if you don’t have the experience or knack for it. You have to be able to keep the listener engaged with whatever means you have at your disposal, like all music, … Continue reading Gaetir the Mountainkeeper – Norðr
If you look close enough to any sort of media from paintings to video games to movies to music to literature, you will find the irrefutable influence of H.P. Lovecraft popping up all over the place. The man’s legendary universe … Continue reading Eighth Tower Records – In Tenebris Scriptus
Last year, the spacial entity known as Progenie Terrestre Pura took us on yet another trip across the cosmos. It was beautiful, intense, and an absolute joy to listen to that still permeates the album to this day. The band had … Continue reading Progenie Terrestre Pura – starCross
It’s a slight bit of a rarity to come across bands that can bring together the worlds of doom and folk metal in such a way that the ensuing material can truly be labeled as an engaging experience. Agalloch and … Continue reading Arkveid – s/t
There are very few instances where I would ever label a band as underrated simply because I know how often the term gets thrown around. It really gets annoying sometimes, but if there is any single act out there that … Continue reading Veldes – Storm Borrower
Any metalhead head who’s worth his or her own salt has specific taste when it comes down to it. Sure, we can appreciate all if not most styles, but many would say they like death, doom, or black metal the … Continue reading Lurk – Fringe
The black metal scene of Bandcamp as a whole is truly thriving more than it ever has, and the style that easily takes the place as the most saturated style has to be atmospheric black metal. I’m not sure if … Continue reading Trees, Clouds & Silence – Let Me Die On Your Roots
One of the genres that I’ve been meaning to spend more time in than anything outside of metal is the world of ambiance. It’s such a rich, complex style from the likes of dungeon synth to dark ambient to noise … Continue reading Moloch Conspiracy /Araphel / Veiled Monk – Trinitas Sanctus
It’s a key thing for music in general that people pour their hearts and souls into the music they’re pouring forth. Showing emotion is far from a rarity in metal, and black metal isn’t always the first thing people think of … Continue reading Ezkaton – Plague for the Empires: Time
There are simply some bands that refuse to stay quiet or even keep things the same for too long. I’ve come across countless bands that change their style over time as their debut album could be one style while later … Continue reading Abstracter – Cinereous Incarnate
