SATURDAY’S SONGS OF THE WEEK #40

Norwegian black metal icons Emperor were confirmed for the Mystic Festival 2019 in Poland. More recently, they also announced that they will play in their home country, an exclusive Norwegian show at next year’s Beyond The Gates festival in Bergen! The festival takes place on August 23rd-24th. Emperor are the headliner for their 2019 edition. Their performance will mark 22 years since the revered band last played in Bergen. Symbolically enough during their Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk concert […]

Black metal is already a great genre on it’s own but when kept at it’s rawest form with the cavernous instrumentals, dissonant vocals and just pure aggression, that’s when it is at it’s best. American black metal band Solitary Key has shown us that they can carry the torch that the first wave of black metal and modern raw black metal artists have paved ahead. This is the debut demo from this unknown band and already they have brought forth the […]

Black metal is a genre that always has twists and turns. Bands routinely mess with the style to give their own spin on the genre. The Negative Bias does just that. While they still play black metal, some interesting choices, both in composition and writing make their album “Lamentation of the Chaos Omega” a very interesting and enjoyable album. “Album Medley” opens up this album, and does so with an odd, ambient and vocal centric opening, which leads into some […]