On a cold November Friday, Budapest's Blue Hell club was the host of a true underground concert, an event for all the true die-hards out there. Xalpen, the Chilean black metal band co-fronted by Alvaro Lillo from Watain was doing a couple of shows in the region and eventually, to my delight, they made it... Continue Reading →
A few days ago I discovered in my mailbox the promo material for the band Countess Erzsebet which apparently is a one woman band hailing from the States. The main character behind this project is going by the name of Rachel Bloodspell Moongoddess (she also played in Xasthur at some point) and on the 28th... Continue Reading →
A Watain concert is always an extra sensorial experience that needs to be fully embraced with all your senses. The smell, the visuals and the music all create a portal through which one can travel into unknown dimensions far from this wretched world. On the the 7th of May Watain stopped in Budapest for the... Continue Reading →
I have to admit that I've never been too familiar with Australia's black/death metal scene, somehow it didn't attract me as much as the European one. I only knew some bands like Horde (sic), Destroyer 666, Sadistik Exekution, Anatomy or Drowning the Light but for some reason I did not dig deeper into the Aussie... Continue Reading →
I don't remember when I wrote my last concert review, so I assume it must have been a long time ago. What better moment to resume this activity than the last minute show of Norway's Carpathian Forest which took place in Budapest last Saturday in Instant-Fogas Komplexum ? Many thanks to Planetnoir Industries for organizing... Continue Reading →
When it comes to music, I can honestly say that at least for me, 2022 has been quite a good year. While suffering from a slight form of nostalgia, throughout this year I focused my listening habits mainly on old school bands, like stuff I grew up with or listened a lot during my youth/teenage... Continue Reading →
"Alpha Hunt is a unique mixture of old-school, mid-tempo black metal and heavy metal with a strong emphasis on the dark, hypnotic and menacing atmosphere".
Bran is a small village near Brasov, Romania. Bran is also a medieval castle that many (Bram Stoker included) have mistaken for Dracula's castle. But BRAN is also the name of a new black metal band which hails from the Czech Republic. And on the 31st of October AB they will release their first debut... Continue Reading →
Almost one year after Krvna's fantastic debut album "Sempinfernus" has been dissected here on Scrolls, the Australian one man band crawls out again of its remote grave with the sophomore album "For Thine is the Kingdom of the Flesh". This new record will come out on the 12th of December as a joint coop between... Continue Reading →
The Vessel from the German obscure entity that is Boarhammer has been very kind to share some insight on this new band that really made a strong impression on SoD. If you enjoyed the review we did for their demo tape "I: Cutting Wood for Magickal Purposes", then the below interview will answer some of... Continue Reading →
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