Black Metal

The picture I have in my head of Ireland is an isolated, yet calming, place by the sea.…

I first became acquainted with stoner rock while attending college and skiing in Salt Lake City. Whether carving…

Since coming to prominence as the guitarist and primary songwriter of Angelcorpse in the 1990s, Gene Palubicki has…

When he’s not dealing in the Slime and Punishment of Municipal Waste or pissing off the neighbors with…

The mystic, the subliminal, the macabre: the fixings of good black metal and the bread and butter of…

As a massive fan of anything that creeps, crawls, horrifies, or shocks, I enjoy no season more than…

There’s a distinctive quality about French black metal that hints at its creators’ origin—and I don’t mean the…

We’ve all been told, once or thrice, not to judge a book by its cover. As a species,…

In neither of his two prior Wode reviews did El Cuervo pose the question, what is a wode,…

The occupational hazard of reviewing music is a fixation on novelty. At a certain point, you have heard…

Like a specter emerging from the mist, Æl-Fierlen is a brand new post-black metal act that materialized in…

It has always overwhelmed me just how much music is out there, ceaselessly being recorded in studios and…

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