thisisblackmetal.com : / Review by Jeger Nokturnal Mortum – Hurt (EP) Record Label: Oriana Music Year: 2026 Rating: 8.5/10 Ukraine’s Nokturnal Mortum! As the decades have passed and as the band has grown through controversy, adversity and a war-torn homeland, it’s been the music that has spoken the loudest. To know Nokturnal Mortum’s discography is … Seguir leyendo “Review: Nokturnal Mortum – Hurt (EP)”

thisisblackmetal.com : / Review by Justin Joseph Misotheist – De Pinte Record Label: Terratur Possessions Year: 2026 Rating: 9/10 The act of restraint is often associated with balance, for it may be shunned to overindulge the senses to achieve a state where one is fully immersed in the essence that entrances the soul. Then there … Seguir leyendo “Review: Misotheist – De Pinte”

thisisblackmetal.com : / Review by Justin Joseph Horn – Apokalyps 1618 Record Label: Northern Silence Productions Year: 2026 Rating: 9/10 A simple sensation can evolve into an ineffable experience, no matter how miniscule it may seem, for once a connection is formed, the mind fans this ember into a raging flame. For it is like … Seguir leyendo “Review: Horn – Apokalyps 1618”

thisisblackmetal.com : / Review by Rick Eaglestone Failure – Dulling the Razorblade (Demo) Record Label: Independent Year: 2026 Rating: 7/10 Depressive Black Metal has always been the most solitary corner of an already isolationist genre — a music made alone, in bedrooms, for reasons that rarely announce themselves. Failure, the sole work of a UK musician … Seguir leyendo “Review: Failure – Dulling the Razorblade (Demo)”

angrymetalguy.com : Exumer are probably viewed as a footnote in the Big Book of Germanic Thrash. After all, they only managed to release 2 albums in the Golden 80s, and only one of them really epitomized the raw, unhinged nature of the Teutonic terrors launched by acts like Sodom, Kreator, and Destruction. Their Possessed by … Seguir leyendo “Exumer – Death Mask Messiah Review”

angrymetalguy.com : Given its proclivity for scathing speeds, tough turnarounds, and blistering double bass, death metal contains a surprising number of drummer-vocalists. There’s Chris Reifert’s foundational feats in Autopsy, Mike Browning’s total-body tour de force on The Key (Nocturnus), and Max Klebanoff’s cookie-monstered kit-mashing in Tomb Mold. Add Andrea Feltrin of Miscreance to the list … Seguir leyendo “Miscreance – Reminiscence Review”

angrymetalguy.com : I love me an honest promo blurb. In a world where every advertisement promises more brutality than a 20-year exclusive diet of doughnuts and American cheese, and more emotional trauma than walking in your parents whipping you up a sibling, there are points to be earned for labels real enough to simply tell … Seguir leyendo “Agonanist – The Spirit of Gravity Review”

angrymetalguy.com : A little over a year ago, my dear friend and roommate visited her home country of Norway for a month. Obviously, I insisted that she visit Neseblod Records, the infamous record store originally opened by Euronymous (as Helvete) back in the 90s, located in Oslo. While she was there, frightened by its certainly … Seguir leyendo “Triosphere – Oceans Above, Stars Below Review”

angrymetalguy.com : Enroll Crimson Glory in Vacation Bible School, and you get Sacred Warrior. Releasing a string of high-quality, God-honoring prog-power from ’88 to ’91, Sacred Warrior shredded and wailed in seriously glorious fashion on underground hits like Wicked Generation and Master’s Command1, led by the guitar heroics of band leader Jonathan Johnson. But as … Seguir leyendo “Glory of Kings – Roots of the Past Review”

angrymetalguy.com : Kamelot should need no introduction, but this is an article, so they get one anyway. The US-based group have dominated at a crossroads between power, progressive, and symphonic metal for much of the thirty-one years since their debut. I can personally credit Kamelot with breaking me out of my Nightwish-shaped early impression of … Seguir leyendo “Kamelot – Dark Asylum Review”