Silencer - Death - Pierce Me
Given my recent review of Diagnose: Lebensgefahr, I thought I’d revisit Nattramn’s previous project, the legendary Silencer. This Swedish band only had one album, Death – Pierce Me (Lupus Lounge, 2001; reissued by Autopsy Kitchen, 2006), but it’s a touchstone of depressive black metal. Death – Pierce Me In addition to the music’s general high...
Ensepulchred - The Night Our Rituals Blackened the Stars
Also on Autopsy Kitchen (2006) is The Night Our Rituals Blackened the Stars, by Indiana’s Ensepulchred. The song titles are similarly ridiculous: “Embrace Your Decaying Children and Weep”? “Along Paths Where the Infected Lurk”? They seem to have come from a black metal song title generator (1,2). Beneath Frozen Fields I really should hate a...