“Arriving Intact is the sound of Elk Hunter growing beyond its origins while staying true to its purpose.”
From the frozen North, Förförare's Pojken i Skogen weaves a frostbitten mythic descent through solitude and shattered identity — a boy, a beast, and an eternal silence beneath the snow. The Color Out Of Space's The Storm That Erases brings Lovecraftian black metal obliteration from the stars, while The Utter's In The Empyrean Loft delivers a raw, bilingual concept album about the wind. Immortal EBT's Pale Sunshine fuses black metal shoegaze with Schoenberg's shadow, and Oskoreien's All Too Human meditates on free will and tragedy through "unrelenting waves" of achingly beautiful melody.
“Arriving Intact is the sound of Elk Hunter growing beyond its origins while staying true to its purpose.”
“A frozen, uncompromising monument of pure second-wave Dutch black metal, captured at a definitive peak when Funeral Winds weaponized itself as a relentless three-piece power trio.”
“Atmospheric black metal from Scotland exploring themes from Celtic and Pictish history, myth and legend.”
“Black metal concept album exploring free will and morality via the tragic story of Charles Whitman”
“The definitive collection of the pivotal 1993-1994 recordings: raw, uncompromising Satanic Black Metal from one of the genre’s most steadfast cult entities.”
“A black metal album about jail. Experimental and sonically adventurous. Psychedelic and shoegaze.”
“Atmospheric black/doom metal featuring guest vocals by Tim Yatras (Austere, Germ).”