Atmospheric Black Metal

Post-metal, doom-laden, atmospherical, shoe-gaze. Goth-streaked black metal tinged with ambience. You can't pin this shit down - and why would you want/need to?

Blimey! I'm almost literally drowning in an oily sea of quality black metal at the moment.

Sometimes I have trouble making a distinction between atmospsheric and melodic black metal; quite often it seems to be only the depth and amount of synth used that distinguishes the two.

Darkspace is an experimental black metal trio from Switzerland and have consistently managed to be one of the most unique, interesting and overlooked black metal bands to have emer

When it comes to brutal subject matter, there are few which can compete with the Eastern Front in the Second World War.

The first impression that comes to mind when hearing Autumn’s Dawn debut album, Gone, for the first time, is how beautiful it is.

The creative force behind Burzum, Varg Vikernes, seems to have no limits and after three excellent “come back” albums, and a compilation of re-recorded songs, now he abandons his b

Àrsaidh’s debut album Roots arrives in distortion, filtering through the grey thickness of a rainswept day.

Straddling the precarious boundary between Art and Music, haunting flutes and Belarusian poetry define the mut

Everybody knows that nowadays Aussie metal is some of the best to be found worldwide, and that’s not even patriotism because I’m not an Aussie, but I do love Aussie Metal (or do you thi