Interviews - Swallowed In Black

“CHOOSING BABYLON OVER JERUSALEM IS A METAPHOR FOR CHOOSING THE CREATED WORLD OVER THE TRANSCENDENT HEAVEN OF THE CREATOR” – MALACH ADONAI (DØDSENGEL)

May 30, 2023May 30, 2023 Gerald Robinson Dødsengel, Bab Al On, Dødsengel interview, Malach Adonai interview

For a score of years less four, inimitable occult oddity Dødsengel has harvested an uncannily nourishing bounty of obscure, illuminating

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“HUMANITY NO LONGER ACTS ACCORDING TO LOGIC, BUT TO WHAT THE AUTHORITIES AND THE MEDIA SAY” – ADRASTOS (TOTAL HATE)

March 14, 2023March 14, 2023 Gerald Robinson Total Hate, Total Hate interview, Adrastos interview, Marching Towards Humanicide

With their ferocious fifth full-length offensive, ‘Marching Towards Humanicide’, unforgiving Franconian Black Metal insurgents Total Hate deliver a trademark incendiary

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“THIS IS WHERE WE BELONG AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO PRETEND TO BE SOMEONE WE’RE NOT” – GRINDAK (ETERNAL ROT)

March 11, 2023March 11, 2023 Gerald Robinson Eternal Rot, Eternal Rot interview, Grindak interview

Lurking undead within the foulest cesspools of the underground, the contaminated cadavers of Eternal Rot have refreshingly regurgitated a noxious

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“HUMANITY SHOULD STILL SOMEHOW SUFFER TREMENDOUSLY, UNPRECEDENTEDLY, BEFORE IT CEASES TO EXIST” – NUMINOUS

February 21, 2023February 22, 2023 Gerald Robinson Numinous, Numinous interview

In faithful servitude to divine evil, Numinous wages war on the contemptible creation of the enemy and invokes the destruction

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“THERE’S A LOT I HONOUR ABOUT THE ORIGINATORS OF BLACK METAL AND WE WOULDN’T BE HERE TODAY IF IT WEREN’T FOR THEM” – D.G. (MISÞYRMING)

February 14, 2023February 22, 2023 Gerald Robinson Misþyrming, Með hamri, Misþyrming interview, D.G. interview

At once revisiting and reimagining the raucous belligerence of ‘Söngvar elds og óreiðu’ whilst expanding upon this trailblazing Icelandic enigma’s

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“WE FIND IT IMPORTANT TO TRY AND FOLLOW OUR OWN PATH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OTHERS ARE DOING” – NAMELESS VOID (NEGATIVE PLANE)

January 27, 2023January 27, 2023 Gerald Robinson Negative Plane, The Pact, Negative Plane interview, Nameless Void interview

Weaving together a sinister sequence of nefarious deeds perpetrated on consecrated ground, Negative Plane’s ground-breaking third full-length, ‘The Pact…’, is

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“THE RETURN TO THE TRENCHES OF THE WESTERN FRONT WAS AN INTENTIONAL DECISION THAT TAKES THE BAND BACK AROUND, FULL CIRCLE, TO WHERE I BEGAN” – KRIEGSHAMMER (MINENWERFER)

January 25, 2023January 25, 2023 Gerald Robinson Minenwerfer, Feuerwalze, Minenwerfer interview, Kriegshammer interview

Bathed in the eerie crimson glow of the Somme, riddled with lice, hobbled by trench foot, malnourished, sleep-deprived and with

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“THE HOPES OF YOUTH HAVE BEEN DROWNED IN THE TEDIOUS, DISCOURAGING AND UNSURPRISING EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIVESTOCK” – OUTRE-TOMBE (AKITSA)

December 5, 2022 Gerald Robinson Akitsa, Sang Nordique, Akitsa interview, Outre-Tombe interview

A score of spirit-sapping, soul-destroying years has passed since Outre-Tombe audaciously lit the touchpaper for Québécois Black Metal by issuing

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“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

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“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

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“NOWADAYS IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTHING IS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN AND LIED ABOUT” – PETRI ILVESPAKKA (DIABOLI)

December 12, 2022December 12, 2022 Gerald Robinson Diaboli, Pagan Gods Rise, Petri Ilvespakka interview, Diaboli interview

The living embodiment of an uncompromising underground artist, Petri Ilvespakka has been crafting authentic Black Metal art under the Diaboli

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

November 30, 2022December 3, 2022 Gerald Robinson Ritual Death, Ritual Death interview, Wraath, Wraath interview

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

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“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