December 14, 2019
Rodey’s Heavy 20 for 2020
The 2010s were an interesting decade for music with the rise of YouTube sensations, the birth of streaming services, and the resurgence of albums on…
black metal
November 23, 2019
Album Review: Walk Beyond the Dark by Abigail Williams
By Nikita Alekseyevich Khrenov Throughout their 10+ year existence Abigail Williams has consistently managed to reinvent their brand of black metal. From heavy symphonic elements akin…
September 28, 2019
Album Review: Moon and Azure Shadow’s Age of Darkness and Frost
By Nikita Alekseyevich Khrenov When one thinks of influences and nuances of black metal, the last thing they would imagine would be incorporating Japanese film scores…
July 29, 2019
Listening Lately: Cult of Sorrow, Markov Soroka, and Matt Heckler
This week’s edition of Listening Lately is ALL over the place… Opening with audio of a Satanic ritual is one way to make a statement…
June 29, 2019
The Necrosexual Interviews Captain Graves of Advent Varic
By The Necrosexual “Blackened.” It’s a funny word. Great Metallica song, but so many black metal bands these days fall under the moniker. Does “blackened”…
May 31, 2019
It’s My Birthday and I’ll Blog If I Want To: Fumarole, Ghost:Hello, and The Real Batushka
Yep, I am 35 years young today. Still blogging about The Scene… In the words of The Necrosexual, “It’s not a phase, Dad!” First up…
February 18, 2019
Journal of Sorrows: A Review of Saor’s Forgotten Paths
Saor is the folk/black metal one-man band of Scottish musician Andy Marshall. It seems to be quite the labor of love considering the quantity and…