Sorcier des Glaces: Un Monde de Glace et de Sang (2020) 2020 is an even number. As such, we were due a new Sorcier des Glaces album. Their rise from obscure one-time hitters with 1998’s ‘Snowland’ to one of the most celebrated pillars of Canadian black metal has been a slow and steady march. A... Continue Reading →

Beherit: Bardo Exist (2020) 2020, a year that will be remembered for its global pandemics and aging black metal artists offering up ambient albums no one asked for. And much like Burzum’s aptly named ‘Thulean Mysteries’, Beherit’s ‘Bardo Exist’ lands with little fanfare or preamble. It is a habit of these mysterious misanthropes from the... Continue Reading →

The Kryptik: Behold Fortress Inferno (2020) Straight out of Rio de Janeiro comes the best Swedish black metal album you’ve heard all year. This forty-minute-long EP offers some of the best melding of epic riffcraft with bracing symphonic atmospheres to be heard in a long time. Channelling the spirit of Dawn or Vinterland, The Krytpik... Continue Reading →

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