black metal
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From Watershed between Earth and Firmament, the debut album from Italian black metal artist The Clearing Path (Gabriele Gramaglia), out July 11 via Avantgarde Music. I appreciate the soupçon of Converge-esque metalcore in the mix.
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M by Myrkur Danish atmospheric black metal artist Myrkur (Amalie Bruun) is releasing her full-length debut M August 21 via Relapse Records. We have pretty high hopes for it after being impressed last year by the demo track “Skaði” and finding out Ulver’s Garm was co-producing the album. Up
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Sweden’s Tribulation comes through with a melodic, eerie black metal record with heavy metal undertones.
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Leviathan comes through with what’s surely to be one of the most dense, grand, experimental, and hellish black metal albums this year. I’m also talkin’ this album out with Dead End Hip Hop’s Myke C-Town.
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Romania’s Negură Bunget returns with a new album, continuing to fuse folk music from their home country with the grim musical stylings of black metal.
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The Richmond, VA-based trio Unsacred have just released their debut LP on Forcefield Records, and you can stream it in full above. While the band channel a few different styles of heavy music throughout the album, they don’t really blend them together as much as transition back and forth
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Normally, I wouldn’t make such a big deal over a demo, but this new track from the one-woman black metal project known as “Myrkur” comes with a pretty interesting announcement: Not only is the cut embedded above going to be featured on the forthcoming Myrkur LP on Relapse Records
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UK singer-songwriter and musical oddball Dean Blunt releases an album that’s difficult to put into words. While simple in composition and sloppy in execution, the album still manages to draw up some real feelings of isolation, melancholy, and frustration.
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III by Spectral Lore A long, winding black metal epic from Spectral Lore on their latest album here, III. Stream it via the embed above, and take in the gargantuan crescendos, tender acoustic interludes, and incredibly hellish vocals.
