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There’s some highlights for sure

Dark Medieval Times is the debut of Norwegian Black Metal band Satyricon, and it’s a little underwhelming all things considered but still shows signs of quality. Why is it underwhelming? Well there’s a good chunk of things here that’s just kind of a track, let’s just get what’s probably my most controversial take about this album out the way; the first song on this album is really boring and is okay at best, it completely ... read more

Very catchy Black Metal!

Exercises in Futility is not Mgła’s first Black Metal album, but it definitely is their most popular and well received one to date, and it really isn’t that hard to see why. From the first track this album gives you this slow introduction before it jumps into your more typical Black Metal song, melodic guitar riffs, an incredibly atmospheric chorus, crazy drumming, all the standards. That’s not to say it’s bad though, the entire album more or ... read more

And that's another 10/10 for the books baby!

Rain Without End is a melancholic and emotional disaster, I've genuinely never heard Death Doom that sounds so sorrowful and soul crushing, the "Melodic Death Doom" if you will sounds absolutely fucking amazing and is clearly influential to plenty of later acts down the road. I so wish that Jonas Renske could go back and make more music like this, but I get that he really can't because of his health as well as him just ... read more

Abigor's debut offers some great Black Metal with melodic hints spread about!

Abigor is a band that I'm well aware of at this point from when I listened to Nachthymnen (From the Twilight Kingdom), and it eventually became one of my favorite Melodic Black Metal albums of all time! So it's needless to say that I was more than excited to check this out after I heard from numerous sources that it was decently similar to their sophomore release. Would it have made sense if I listened ... read more