Your black metal album of the decade
by Cosmo Lee The readers of this site have voted Deathspell Omega‘s Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (Norma Evangelium Diaboli, 2004) the black metal album of the decade. I prefer the more fully-formed Kénôse, but the sound of a band finding itself can be thrilling. Odium Nostrum Such was the case with SMRC, which along with...
Assassin (Deu) - The Upcoming Terror
by Franceso Ferorelli Ah, the cover art gamble. The Internet in all its wisdom has yet to conjure up an adequate facsimile of this experience. Sometimes in high school if I had a few extra bucks, I’d buy a tape or CD because it looked cool — the ignorant music fan’s Hail Mary pass. This...