Thecodontion is an italian band that extracted all guitars from their musical creation, preferring to present a stronger and much more present, bass guitar… in a way, it gives their sound the strength they try to pass on, to the audience, with the name, for example. The band extracts creativeness from the following: "Thecodontia (from Ancient Gr...

02/05/2019

Music can be seen as a gateway to dimensions where your mind is driven to higher levels of pleasure. Harsh, Gentle, Punishing... A ritualistic adoration of a deity, a tribute to a superior existence. Music has always served the will of its creator. Through music, many musicians expose the general audience to their beliefs, their ideals - be it g...

24/04/2019

Sarcofago are one of the most important names in extreme metal music history (“INRI” is, until this day, seen as a quintessential, when it comes to bestial black metal). They passed on, to others, the rules and guidelines of what is suppose to be the most extreme fringe of black metal, later on caught up by the likes of Blasphemy (are these the REA...

11/04/2019

Black metal’s main core still is, in my very modest opinion, the ATMOSPHERE the musicians are able to project into the one listening. It is not hollow in terms of substance and it leaves a mark in every single person that touches it and is touched. It will never be an easy genre to listen to, and with that idea in mind, I can almost accept when the...

31/03/2019

These Germans’ quest began in 2017. With the single "In die Freiheit", Ferndal presented the band’s offering on melodic black metal, with the addition of a not very predictable instrument, when it comes to the dark realms of black metal: the cello. Drinking from their motherland’s folk tradition and fusing it with black metal structure, adding the...

28/03/2019

Supernatural forces gather in communion with nature and the cosmos. sounds, senses. The fusion of man and beast. More than just music, any band that is part of the Black Twilight Circle carries, as a close element of their quintessence as musicians and people, their ancestral heritage and their inherited beliefs. Huitzilopochtli, better known as...

25/03/2019

Culture is a characteristic of societies since the beginning of time. We associate certain elements, or various cultural expressions, to a specific culture/civilization or, in this case, Countries. Music is no different from other forms of Culture, and each country has its own music, its own folklore. And when it comes to music, to focus on heav...

01/03/2019

From the necro raw lo-fi recordings of Sarcófago, to the folkish sounds of Taake or the symphonic creations of Emperor, black metal has come a long way. It has evolved as a genre, it has taken to its sphere elements that, in the beginning one would never imagine having a place in such a “hermetic” genre. Abruptum (“Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectère Me...

05/02/2019

I will be totally honest with you: I had never heard this band Funereal Presence before. I was aware of the name, true, but had never felt the urge to take some time and give them – or him, in this case – a go. Oh boy, I was in for a treat, was I not? In a way, yes. The bastard creation of Bestial Devotion, drummer for Negative Plane. I never ga...

16/01/2019