Reviews

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• Ulver Nattens Madrigal Eight hymns to the wolf in man. Allegedly recorded in Norwegian forests with deliberately blown-out production, Nattens Madrigal is one of the most hostile and…
• My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans The Yorkshire doom quartet at their most devastating. Turn Loose the Swans takes the crushing heaviness of their debut and weaves violin, clean singing, and…
• Darkthrone A Blaze in the Northern Sky The album that defined lo-fi black metal aesthetics for every band that followed. Nocturno Culto and Fenriz made a calculated decision to abandon their death…
• Mayhem De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas The defining statement of Norwegian Black Metal, completed under circumstances so chaotic and violent they have become as mythologised as the music itself.…
• Paradise Lost Gothic The record that invented gothic doom. Paradise Lost took the death-doom template of their debut and introduced female vocals, delicate guitar passages, and a…
• Bathory Blood Fire Death The pivot point in Quorthon's singular vision. Blood Fire Death marks the transition from raw, primitive black metal to the epic, Viking-inflected sound that…
• Possessed Seven Churches The first death metal album, depending on who you ask — and the argument is compelling. Jeff Becerra's vocals are a revelation: a guttural, demonic growl that…
• Celtic Frost To Mega Therion Tom G. Warrior and Martin Eric Ain at their most ambitious and uncompromising. To Mega Therion takes the primitive aggression of Morbid Tales and adds…