Part one Astral Noize’s Albums of the Year for 2019.

Part one Astral Noize’s Albums of the Year for 2019.
Expansive, genre defying grandeur from the French veterans.
Our first round-up of 2019 takes on everything from innovative blackgaze to underwhelming doom.
Black metal is a genre often characterised by its brutal simplicity, but in the hands of these artists, it’s so much more.
Formed amidst the strife of the second wave of black metal in the 90s, Blut Aus Nord’s debut Ultima Thulee took the black metal world by storm in 1995. If there’s one thing to say about […]
Transcending their genre through intelligent experimentations that seldom miss their mark, Blut Aus Nord offer up increasingly more punishing sonic stylings as they obliterate the notion of genre on Deus Salutis Meae.