Gerald Robinson - Swallowed In Black

“LIKE A STRIKE OF LIGHTNING, IT AWAKENED AND OPENED SOMETHING IN ME” – WRAATH (RITUAL DEATH)

Celebrating and evoking the inevitable fate that awaits us all, Ritual Death’s deliriously-decadent and predictably-self-titled debut full-length reeks of necromancy

Interviews

“BLACK METAL IS ABOUT SPIRITUAL LIBERATION FROM THE SHACKLES OF THE DEMIURGE” – SEMJAZA (THY DARKENED SHADE)

November 28, 2022November 28, 2022 Gerald Robinson Thy Darkened Shade, SamaeLilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn, Thy Darkened Shade interview, Semjaza interview, Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya

Profusing promethean fire, channelling chaos and advocating adversary in His name, inimitable initiates Thy Darkened Shade deliver epic, elevated third

Interviews

“SOME HAVE FEAR, OTHERS EMBRACE IT WHEN IT COMES, SOME ARE AT PEACE, SOME WILL PRAY FOR MORE TIME” – MkM (ANTAEUS)

October 5, 2022October 7, 2022 Gerald Robinson Antaeus, Antaeus interview, MkM interview

Like some surreal viciously-pulsing severed artery of sonic excess, Antaeus sprayed forth from the gushing sewers of Paris a bloodletting

Interviews

“I SEE ‘REDEMPTIO’ AS THE GREAT BEAST THAT ARISES ABOVE EVERYTHING WITH DIFFERENT VOICES AND FACES IN ONLY ONE FURY” – LORD NATHAS (FUNERAL HARVEST)

October 12, 2022October 12, 2022 Gerald Robinson Redemptio, Funeral Harvest, Funeral Harvest interview, Lord Nathas interview

How apt in these days of spiritual destitution that Funeral Harvest should strike vengefully with debut full-length, ‘Redemptio’, swinging their

Interviews

“SINCE WHEN SHOULD BLACK METAL BE SMOOTH AND HARMLESS MUSIC, A ‘SAFE SPACE’ FOR WEAK PEOPLE?” – NOKTURN (AUTARCIE)

October 3, 2022October 3, 2022 Gerald Robinson Autarcie, Autarcie interview, Apogée. Ivresse. Agonie.

Evoking a uniquely rich cultural heritage by revisiting glorious bygone epochs from France’s illustrious history, Autarcie’s powerfully nostalgic and emotive

Interviews

“TO EXIST AMONG THESE MENDACIOUS MASSES IS THE REAL HELL” – GRÀNT (GRÀB)

October 8, 2022 Gerald Robinson Gràb interview, Gràb, Grànt interview, Zeitlang

Transfused with an importation of Ingvaeonic blood, Gràb returns from its temporary resting place in the silent, peaceful Bavarian grave

Interviews

“LIGHT IS THERE TO SHINE, BUT WITHOUT IMMENSE DARKNESS IT CANNOT BE SEEN” – DEACON D (HETROERTZEN)

September 11, 2022September 11, 2022 Gerald Robinson Hetroertzen, Phosphorus Vol I, Deacon D interview, Hetroertzen interview

All-consuming darkness permeates ‘Phosphorus Vol I’, the seventh full-length sacrament of Hetroertzen, wherein this mystical and mysterious vampiric coven also

Black Metal Reviews

SATANIC WARMASTER / CLANDESTINE BLAZE – CLANDESTINE BLAZE / SATANIC WARMASTER LP (Northern Heritage Records)

November 12, 2022November 12, 2022 Gerald Robinson Clandestine Blaze, Satanic Warmaster, Northern Heritage Records, Clandestine Blaze / Satanic Warmaster’

Twenty years ago, Mikko Aspa and Werwolf joined forces to create one of the Black Metal underground’s truly great split

Black Metal Reviews

THY DARKENED SHADE / AMESTIGON / INCONCESSUS LUX LUCIS / SHAARIMOTH – SAMAELILITH: A CONJUNCTION OF THE FIREBORN 2LP (World Terror Committee)

November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 Gerald Robinson World Terror Committee, Thy Darkened Shade, Shaarimoth, SamaeLilith: A Conjunction of the Fireborn, Inconcessus Lux Lucis, Amestigon

The cursed history of Black Metal is embellished with many outstanding examples of exceptional splits and the immense four-way collaboration

Black Metal Reviews

DIABOLI – PAGAN GODS RISE (Darker Than Black Records)

November 2, 2022November 2, 2022 Gerald Robinson Diaboli, Darker Than Black Records, Pagan Gods Rise

Arriving without warning, the ninth full-length recording of cult Finnish force Diaboli marks 30 years of spreading uncompromising underground art

Black Metal Reviews

FÖRGJORD – RUUMISSAARNA PT. I (Werewolf Records)

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Gerald Robinson Werewolf Records, Förgjord, Ruumissaarna Pt. I

Förgjord’s forensic exploration of the darkest aspects of humanity continues unabated on sixth full-length, ‘Ruumissaarna Pt. I’, where conceptual mastermind

Black Metal Reviews

RUINS OF NIMRUD – FORGOTTEN REALMS PART I LP (ASRAR)

October 28, 2022 Gerald Robinson ASRAR, Forgotten Realms Part I, Ruins of Nimrud

Dwelling very much in the land of noisy, raw Black Metal, ‘Forgotten Realms Part I’ is technically a demo, apparently,

Black Metal Reviews Death Metal Reviews

HARVEST GULGALTHA – ANCIENT WOODS (Godz ov War Productions)

October 27, 2022October 28, 2022 Gerald Robinson Godz ov War Productions, Harvest Gulgaltha, Ancient Woods

Fittingly, it is with neither hype nor fanfare that Harvest Gulgaltha re-emerges from the deepest recesses of the underground armed

Black Metal Reviews

RITUAL DEATH – RITUAL DEATH (Regain Records)

October 15, 2022October 15, 2022 Gerald Robinson Regain Records, Ritual Death

Nidrosian necromancy and Satanic servitude abound on Ritual Death’s (appropriately) self-titled full-length, which delivers 32 minutes of Black Metal Terror

Black Metal Reviews

GRAND BELIAL’S KEY – KOHANIC CHARMERS LP (Weltenfeind)

September 24, 2022October 1, 2022 Gerald Robinson Grand Belial's Key, Kohanic Charmers, Weltenfeind

Typically brilliantly monikered, ‘Prayer Shawl of the First Born Donkey’ provides a suitably supreme opening to the first Grand Belial’s

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