While I always saw Eivør close to metal imaginary with parts of its roughness, I would not have bet her getting closer to this genre following her Covid-era album Segl. Segl represents to me very well part of her Scandinavian musical heritage which is pop, seemingly heavily influenced by her American adventure and the connections … Continue reading Album Review: Eivør – Enn
Author: Eduinaluca
The label Season of Mist had a bunch of newcomers this year and among them are the accomplished Faroe Islander Eivør. She does not composes metal but she definitely speaks to the community in many ways. While she did perform in a couple of metal festival such as Midgardsblot and Wacken Open Air, her … Continue reading Eivør announces new album and single
After all these years, I still discover new joys about reviewing albums. Well in this case, it was more about the final step: getting to publish a one month work, wanting to notify the band about it and find out that you may do this again with a shorter deadline. It looked kind of discouraging … Continue reading Album review: Bergrizen – Die Falle
Bergrizen. I saw them from afar at the Metal East in their native land, Ukraine, back in 2019. When I checked the band, I saw it was all about the classic aesthetics of black metal with black and white everywhere, album names in German as well a muscled singer wearing corpse paint. If you look … Continue reading Album review: Bergrizen – “Orathania”
Well, it seems that after the Covid and the beginning of the war, I finally have come back to write. Numen, also know as the pretty much only active black metal band from Basque Country, playing in the far side of nowhere is the bite I found to eat. This far side of nowhere happens … Continue reading Gig Review: Numen – Buru Beltz Fest, Suhescun, (15th September 2023)
Українська версія рецензії: Daily Metal. And so, here we are. Despite this discreet, insidious mayhem going on with the pandemic, nothing seems to stop the Ukrainian black metal scene and it's good to see not everything is falling apart. I mean, almost not. So far and just this year, there was Goatreich's first release which … Continue reading Album Review: Khors – Where the Word Acquires Eternity