News — Black Metal

Another year, another horrible attempt at keeping up with everything. Admittedly I just end up finding old releases/bands and falling head over heels with 'em (big ones this year for me was Sibylle Baier, Mulatu Astatke and Pharoah Sanders). That said, there were some great stuff this year, and here's a playlist of the new releases (and singles!) I've been enjoying. Shout outs to these releases that are also worth your time: The Caretaker Everywhere At The End Of Time (Stage 1) [Ambient]; Meg Baird Furling [Folk]; Thoom Fantasy For Danger [Pop/Electronica]; Colin Stetson When we were that what wept for the sea...

Another year and I’ve been horrible at keeping up with releases for this one – but I definitely have my favourites. Want to give shout outs to other great releases that came out this year including Earl Sweatshirt Sick! [Hip-Hop]; Dälek Precipice [Experimental Hip Hop]; Abduction Black Blood [Black Metal], Lord Mantis Tormentor [Sludge/Death/Black Metal]; Lustmord The Others (Lustmord Deconstructed) [Experimental/Drone]; Boris W [Alternative Rock/Metal]; Sault Angel [Classical]; Infinity Knives/Brian Ennals King Cobra [Experimental Hip-Hop]; Gnod Hexen Valley [Experimental/Noise Rock]; Your Old Droog YOD Presents: The Shining [Hip-Hop]; The Body/OAA Enemy Of Love [Electronica/Industrial]; Blackbraid Blackbraid I [Black Metal]; Viagra Boys Cave [Noise Rock]; Thraa Into Earth [Drone] and Adwaith Bato Mato...

Hard choices this year for top 10. It’s my first time doing this also. Not all of them are metal, which is different... [Shane also runs his own metal label: MSH Music Group!] 10. ABBATH - DREAD REAVER Genre: Black MetalSongs: The Deep Unbound, Dream Cull, Acid Haze. Let’s start off with Abbath’s attempts at being solo. For me, it’s basically Immortal with a twist. Instrumentally a lot more in your face than Immortal and it’s just a rage from start to finish as you’d expect. However, it’s hard for me to not be impressed. Top track The Deep Unbound –...

It’s this time of year again. I’ll admit I was fairly horrible at keeping up with new releases this year and found myself taking comfort in familiars, plus finding undiscovered loves from the past (especially John Prine and Karen Dalton – cheers Matt!). I want to give these artists/albums a shout out too, these are other releases I’ve really enjoyed and returned to repeatedly, all of these you might have heard in the shop while I’ve haunted it: Underdark Our Bodies Burn Bright On Re-Entry [Atmospheric Black Metal]; Armand Hammer Halam [Hip-Hop], Flying Lotus Yasuke OST [Electronica]; Alice Coltrane Kirtan: Turiya...