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The True Werwolf Releases a Black Metal Showcase of Heathen Fury

There is a delicate balance to black metal, a dichotomous dance of traditionalism and exploration - of maintaining the old, and yet exploring new horizons. Such an introduction may seem pompous, yet this is the very nature that I would use to describe The True Werwolf, and certainly the new full-length offering from Hell's Headbangers, The True Werwolf's "Devil Crisis". Having a decade-spanning career in underground prominence, the artist known as Graf Werwolf (Satanic Warmaster / Horna) is no stranger to this very methodology, and in fact, is one of the mainstays in the underground black metal presentation.

Daniel EdenfieldApril 14, 2020The True Werwolf, Werwolf Records, Hells Headbangers, Black Metal, Metal, Extreme metal, reviewsComment

Black Metal Titans Avslut Bestow Another Black Metal Assault

Not content to rest upon their thorny bed of thrash-laden black metal, Avslut return with their second offering, Tyranni.

I first discovered Avslut by accident last year while perusing black metal tags for some gym music, and was immediately enamored with this band's delivery of tight, thrashy black metal in their album, Deceptis. Not content to rest on their laurels, Swedish metal outfit Avslut return with yet another black metal offering, tightening their visceral assault into an even sharper musical design.

Museum of Macabre MediaDaniel EdenfieldApril 13, 2020black metal, Osmose Productions, review, Black Metal, MetalComment

Bütcher's "666 Goats Carry My Chariot" is the Best Metal Album of 2020... So Far.

666 Goats Carry My Chariot is the second album from Antwerp, Belgium’s Bütcher and it’s a Speed Metal masterwork. This band combines all the best parts of Show No Mercy-era Slayer, Mercyful Fate, Diamond Head, Motörhead and Judas Priest with a generous dash of Bathory and Dissection for good measure. There isn’t a single wasted track on the album, it’s all prime cuts, from the second the intro track fades into the Ace of Spades-inspired “Iron Bitch,” to the final note of the somber, acoustic “Exaltation of Sulphur.”