NO CLEAN SINGING

(written by Islander) As many of you will know, I usually post a column at NCS on Sundays with recommendations in the expanding orbit of black metal. I wasn’t able to do that last Sunday due to leaving home on the early side of the day for what turned out to be a cool birthday

(Erstwhile NCS writer TheMadIsraeli returned to us with a review earlier this week, and he’s already back again, this time writing about a new album by Brazil’s Nervosa that was released in April by Napalm Records.) I know the band we’re reviewing today is Nervosa, but I just need you guys to take a detour

(written by Islander) By this point the Bay Area grindcore miscreants Deathgrave probably need no introduction to the kind of miscreant listeners who visit our site, but there’s also a chance someone just awoke from a long coma or just recovered from a debilitating mental disease, so we’ll make a quick one. Originally formed in

(Andy Synn tries to beat the heat with three more home-grown recommendations) It’s another hot one here in the UK right now, and people are definitely looking for something to take their minds off the oppressive heat. And in the absence of any particularly icy Black Metal to cool us down, I thought I’d instead

(written by Islander) Today we have the pleasure of helping announce that in October Pagan Records will release a new album named Time Obliteration by The Black Thunder from Poland, and to help build anticipation for that event we’re also premiering a video for the album’s first single, the genre-bending “Verification of Wounds“. If you