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  The Siberian atmospheric black metal wizards come back with their darkest, an album of the year contender and you will find yourself on a frozen planet where only ogres, trolls live. Overall: 92/100 Music | Grima (bandcamp.com) Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews Beginning with blasting drums and wicked, amazingly produced vocals ‘’Cedar and Owls’’  will surprise you how the folk elements were magnificently used. Emotionally rich solos continue to expand the feelings and give strong chills. Keyboards provide the emotions that the moment when you came face to face with Hydra at dark rotten root basin. Coming with no mercy ‘’Mourning Comes At Sunset’’ has evil black metal riffs that bring the darkness and an incredibly played epic chorus part. Along with masterfully crafted symphonic elements following from wicked solos. Drums sounds fascinating as well. The next one takes the pace to the most mysterious Russian forest. Folk elements stand out again at the half...

Hold your breath and get ready to release your inner self with another masterpiece for the symphonic black metal scene and this time the symphony mostly about keyboards and it is masterfully crafted. Mysterious Finnish symphonic black metal band Gloomy Grim will take you to the darkest corner of the World with Agathon’s evil vocals. Standouts: The Hermit, To The Death I Have Sworn, Third Eye Opening Overall: 90/100  Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews The Hermit hits your face with the classical harsh, vicious black metal riffs. Agathon vocals carry these riffs to the peak of frozen alps and snow-like keyboards make the atmosphere truly special. Continues with tearing guitars which leads the way into an emotionally rich, slow tempo, Darkthrone-like patterns. ''Master Inside'' takes the pace from the Alpes to Everest with speedy crushing black metal riffs, takes the power from heavy blast beats. The bass breaks down the song at the half and turning this into a ...

  Legendary French progressive death metal band Gojira releases their new effort Fortitude after an emotionally rich record Magma. Fortitude represents mixed feelings including tracks that not only reminding their old crushing stuff but also ones refers the new type of Gojira to explore. Standouts: New Found, Sphinx, Grind  Overall: 75/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews The album kicks in with The Way of All Flesh and Magma’s daughter ' 'Born for One Thing'' Starts with crushing a typical Gojira riff while Mario smashing his drums again. Chorus has some Magma feeling with Joe’s machine-like vocals. Continues with rich melodies. Representing the saving of the Amazon forest, ''Amazonia'' approaches the way as Sepultura did at the Roots . Has tribalistic elements, drums go in perfect harmony with the riff. But the duration of the song feels kinda long and leaves a dull taste towards to end. However, everyone should congratulate them for t...

  Lithuanian death metallers Crypt of Despair puts out their finest, darkest, creepiest work with All Light Swallowed and they have no intention to give you any time to breathe. Darkness will hit your face like a truck and get ready for this wicked trip to the World full of bloody rats. Overall: 86/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews We’re opening the manhole with ''Being–Erased'' heavy, and crushing death metal riffs welcomes us, continues with high-speed wicked riffs in-company with rotten vocals that lights the path in this sewer. Going to the darkness again with slow-tempo death metal riffs that circuit around like shadows. Soul-crushing drums take the song to peak and end it. Continues with the fastest as light, guitar riffs and blasting drums of '' Anguished Exhale'' which are getting cut at the half of the song with a mourning scream. Everything slows down and takes the atmosphere to another deeper level. Melodic riffs pass through li...

After their chaotic Gnosis Kardias, Czech Avant-black metal band Inferno returns with their new material taking from halls of Hell. By ‘’Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)’’ things get sicker, doomier,  catchier than they have ever been.    Overall: 90/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews Darkness surrounds and starts to decay your hearth with ''Decaying Virtualities Yeam for Asymptopia'' , slow-paced but heavy drums come along with ambient chants. The strongness of the bass guitar gives us a hint from torturing Methods of hell. The pace gets fast as the flames with '' The Waiting Horizon'',  Shadows running through the walls with heavy speedy riffs, almost jazz-like drum patterns get the things enjoyable in this darkness. Heavy and gloomy growls set the atmosphere under deep the ground, to the near of Nameless things. Strong and crushing bass performs like a demon who wants your soul. Mourning screams from the '' Descent I...

  The 2010s one of the best Depressive Suicidal Black metal band Ghost Bath put out a great follow-up with Starmourner after their crushing masterpiece, Moonlover. Lay on a rock at the seaside, close your eyes, and be prepared for a journey from brightest to darkest stars.   Standouts: Celestial, Luminescence, Cherubim Overall: 88/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews First, you will encounter the star, ‘’Astral’’ It embraces you with calming piano melodies. Gives heat to your heart and prepares you for this wonderful journey from stars to stars. You can sense, not only the joy you will feel but also a lot of pain, depressiveness that may come to your hands. Your mind blows away with the star you landed, ‘’Seraphic’’ opens with a great riff that you won’t be easily forgotten. Magnificent bass tune welcomes you alongside deep, soul-crushing vocals. Till it ends, emotions, musical joy, epicness continues repetitively. Deadly sins you committed, fears you felt get ...

  Have you ever wanted to be alone in an ocean? Silence, long, dark but calmy waves… Stars lighting the way while the moon shines and reflects the light from the other worlds.  Drop everything, take your headphones and come to this big ocean valley within Ice Fleet. Overall: 96/100  Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews After their successful record Kaiho, Post Rock masters Kauan drops a masterpiece again. This time you will go through from the big waves to big warships.  From calmness to chaos, there is no hurry and it builds everything slowly. The instrumental work is all at its best again. Calmy guitars and ambient sounds creates a perfect mood to switch off a little bit and get away with real-world problems. Although there are some moments that can be felt repetitive, it is not as much as the previous one. There a lot more metal moments, heavier guitar and drum tone, and full with post-metal growls. Also, 40 minutes listen time is coherent to finish off ...

  One of the greatest band of this generation returns with their fresh, energetic outcome ‘’Where the Gloom Becomes Sound’’ Get ready for this wonderful musical journey, fasten your seatbelt and be ready to get hypnotized among magical notes . Standouts: Hour of the Wolf, Elementals, The Wilderness Overall: 83/100  Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews Gloom starts with  ‘’In Remembrance’’ , which has some melodies that feel like you are in a horror movie. The ''Hey!'' spreads this gloom everywhere on our headphones. Drums kicks in like a war-chant theme, Johannes’s genuine vocals taking you from the real World to in this horror movie. Follows with great guitar works will feed your Tribulation hunger. You will be encounter with the werewolves at the band’s new masterwork  ‘’Hour of the Wolf’’ , as, like the band’s previous work Melancholia, this one also hits you with fascinating riffing techniques. Low tempo, headbanger guitar riffs follows with a fascinati...

Egyptian Black metallers Osiris, offers to your soul an emotional journey from the black deserts to the top of pyramids with their comeback album Meanders A Soul…  When you will be in need of a little bit of water, wind, or direction to find a path; some fascinating melodies, solos riffs in the Meanders of Soul will serve your purposes.  Standouts: Self Destructive Nature, Our Essence, Endless Sands Overall: 87/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews Our journey begins with  Seasons of Flooding Chaos (Akhet Nw Isfet) , some '’poo-tee-weet?’’ noises then symphonic melodies greet the birds with some war-chant drums. But as we said this journey is not about full of joy, you will be aware that when you hear some mourning screams. Great interlude from beginning to end.  Crushing riffs welcomes us alongside great vocals in  Of Hate, Passion, and Eternity , high tempo riffing continues with some moody piano melodies. As with its name, the song divides itself...

Be aware! Hell is coming to your headphones and it is uglier, vicious than the year 2020.  After Infernal Decadence (2015) Canadian Black metallers feed our  Diabolic Thirst  and put an album that has the potential to be the best black metal album of the year. Standouts: Soul Destroying Black Debauchery, Mausoleal Drift, Diabolic Immanence Overall: 95/100 Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews The Hell's first-child  Imperial Saison Noire  blasts our ears with fast, vicious, melodic riffs and the vocals of Jonah’s which puts all the elements one level above. You can feel the heat, freshness at every second. Unlike the black metal’s repetitive side, repetitiveness is not a subject throughout the album. Almost every minute on every song you can hear a new incredibly well-written riff that blows your mind.  Soul Destroying Black Debauchery  apart from its wonderful name can be a national anthem for all those Canadian Black Metal scenes. It is one ...

Violence imagined, seen, heard. And here all we heard... Death Metal Masters did it one more time with Violence Unimagined. It may consist even one of the best tracks they did since the 2010s. Lots of standouts moments with incredible guitar works and Corpsegrinder’s significant vocals. Standouts: Condemnation Contagion, Inhumane Harvest, Follow the Blood Overall: 88/100       Our new, official site:  FullBlackReviews The album opens with the vicious, fast killer track  ‘’Murderous Rampage’’  as we hit the play button, the track welcomes us to the Cannibal Corpse territory with sick riffing, blasting drums, and vicious vocals.  After this strong opening, territory expands with ‘ ’Necrogenic Resurrection’’ , which gives us to momentum to discover the album’s bloodbath with a neck-breaking riffing and drums.  T hen, one of the classics of their discography surrounds our headphones,  ‘’Inhumane Harvest’ ’, not only viciousness continuo...