Author: Iain Landles
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Black Metal: The demise of ‘True Cult’, 1996/97
The years 1996 and 1997 produced some of the greatest black metal albums of all time. So, for example, we have, Burzum: Filosofem, Emperor: Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk, Satyricon: Nemesis Divina, Enslaved: Eld, Gorgoroth: Antichrist & Under the Sign of Hell, Ulver: Nattens Madrigal, Immortal: Blizzard Beasts, Sacramentum: Far Away From the Sun, Vinterland: Welcome My Last Chapter, Blut aus Nord: Memoria Vetusta I: Fathers…
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KIR – L’appel du vide Review
Right off the bat for those who want to get down to business: this is an excellent album and yes, you need to buy it. KIR is a duo from Kraków, Poland, consisting of Ferment (Poroniec and all instruments except drums), Harvest (vocals), and session drums by Krzysztof Klingbein. Their debut album, L’appel du vide, (I believe…
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The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (The Deeper Cuts) Part 2
Continued … I hope you enjoyed engaging with the first five bands in these articles. Stand by for the next five. As before, these bands are alphabetically listed and not ranked – I’ll leave that to you guys. Four of these bands are, mostly, unknown to the average fan, but one at least will, probably,…
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The New Wave Of British Heavy Metal (The Deeper Cuts) Part 1
Beginnings The New Wave of British Heavy Metal (hereafter NWOBHM) was heavy metal’s first sub-genre. It was primarily a British movement but that is not to say that good heavy metal wasn’t being produced around this time elsewhere. AC/DC and Accept are good examples of this. The music was initially influenced by what we…
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Satan – Songs in Crimson Review
Formed in 1981, Satan were, for a brief period, the hardest and fastest of the NWOBHM bands releasing, in 1983, the magnificent Court in the Act. The promise the band showed back then was off the scale and many a young metal fanatic, myself included, assumed that they would be ‘the next big thing’. However, like…
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Winterfylleth: The Imperious Horizon Review
Winterfylleth are an English Atmospheric Black Metal band. They have in the past called their music English Heritage Black Metal and certainly use England’s rich history as inspiration for their music, as well as England’s beautiful countryside, particularly Cumbria, in Northern England. The Imperious Horizon is their 8th album and the first one in four years,…
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The First Wave of Black Metal… or was it?
Beginnings I remember the day well. An incredibly cold, steel grey day, Tuesday, 1st, December, 1981. I had struggled on to a freezing bus, faced a wind chill factor of -4C on the ferry, and then a twenty minute walk against the piercing wind. My purpose? To buy Venom’s Welcome to Hell on the day it was…