“Most experimental Black Metal acts try and take the genre further and further into the future. This album somehow manages the opposite of that, by taking the genre to a long time ago when Black Metal ...”

“Well, as you may know, the origin of Black Metal was rooted in Venom's Motörhead Speed Metal worship, and Motörhead was heavily influenced by the punk bands, so it's not a very original idea ...”

“Bestial Black Metal / War Metal is probably the most primitive and obscure type of Black or Death Metal. It becomes more obscure if the band in question is from more troubled parts of the world. Here ...”

“if you like old school War Metal acts like old school Beherit and Blasphemy, you MUST listen to this EP here! No other way around it! Abysmal Lord's incredibly primitive and dirty approach to Black ...”

“The Black/Death formula that existed since the late 80s is probably one of the most over the top and extreme forms of Extreme Metal in general. These New Zealand boys started to add some more ...”

“Ah! Sorry Quorthon! Sorry Fenriz! Sorry Varg! Sorry Euronymus! (the list goes on...) It's not a surprise that they made a poppy, accessible and practical album for everyday use by housewives and our ...”

“After the somewhat mediocre "All Shall Fall" album and Abbath's departure from the band, I said my goodbyes to this legendary act and prayed that Demonaz wouldn't do anything stupid, like reforming ...”

“Warning! These next few lines that I'm about to write may sound like just an opinion instead of a full review, and that's absolutely right! Personally, I like most of the Summoning albums, but I ...”

“The Greek Black Metal acts of the late 80s and the 90s were probably the only scenes that didn't copy any of the usual stereotypes within the Scandinavian Black Metal scenes. There should definitely ...”

“Arghhhhh! It's albums like this that give us hope! You can't kill the underground when bands like this exist! If you take the mad dramatic vocals of King Diamond, and mix it with the gritty, dirty, ...”

“The combination of Thrash Metal and Black Metal existed right from the early 80s. These genres co-existed in the times of Venom's proto-Thrash days and beyond. When these two started to be separated ...”

“A great, raw album, with a lot of minor chord riffs which contain lots of emotion. All the tracks are really good, and the insane vocals and the awesome riffs are the strong points of this album. In ...”

“Extremely good album from an extremely good band from Ukraine. The atmosphere on this album is awesome, walking in the woods while listening to this is an insane sensation that really makes one feel ...”

“An absolute masterpiece, made by some extremely brilliant musicians. All of the albums made by Fluisteraars are insanely good, but this one surpasses all the others. The ambiance, the riffs, the bass ...”

“Well, it's official! The number of new bands coming out of Norway is out of control! Every week (almost every day!) we hear about a new Norsk Black Metal band on a label and they pretty much all sound ...”

“This band started as a very interesting Symphonic Black Metal band, but after some great albums, they started to ditch most of the symphonic elements, and went for a mediocre late-90s sound! This ...”

“I'm not gonna waste too much of your time on this one. People, this album is simply bad! It hurts me to say this as a massive Forest / Branikald fan, but this album disappointed me! It almost sounds ...”

“if you judge this album by it's cover, you should be ashamed of yourself! I'm gonna go straight to the point, this demo is one of the best releases in recent times! If we had to invent a new ...”

“Although Noenum hasn't released many albums (in fact, they have only released this EP!), they have captured the melancholy of early Burzum in a majestic way. Fans of Burzum (especially the first four ...”

“Blutrache was one of Werwolf's many projects that didn't pass the demo level and broke up immediately with only one release, but what a release! What a forgotten gem! Like many of the early Finnish ...”

“When people think of the first wave of Black M, they mostly remember the obvious names, and some raw Thrash Metal albums from Germany, Brazil or the United States (well, not for that many U.S. bands, ...”

“Malokarpatan are arguably the best example of the Eastern-European "obscure music" revival that's been happening in the past few years. It's not that difficult to realize that these guys were obsessed ...”

“Argh! Vlad Tepes always had problems with the production, but good God this is on a whole different level. How can a microphone / recorder be this bad?! It's a shame, since this final demo showcases ...”

“Well, in my previous reviews for other Vlad tepes releases, I talked about the general aspects of the band and its releases. Like the previous stuff, the biggest problem here is the production. You ...”

“When I first listened to the War Funeral March demo, I never thought "boy, I wish they made a more brutal and even rawer version of this!", but it turns out they had a thought like that. So, they ...”