Brooklyn-based experimental black metal outfit Tombs is one of those bands that it seems like everyone loves, but I’ve never quite been able to get into. For me, the problem has always been that Mike Hill and [...]
One of the perks of doing a site like the Vault is how much music I’ve been exposed to that likely never would have otherwise popped up on my radar. For example, my familiarity with Belgian metal pretty much began and [...]
If you’ve ever wondered what it might sound like if a melodic sludge band like Torche suddenly decided to go black metal, have I got a band for you. That actually might be something of an oversimplification, but on [...]
Perverted Ceremony’s Sabbat of Behezael was recorded on the same eight track recorder that the band recorded their demo on. It is definitely a lot more refined than the demo and perpetuates the ideas that they [...]
I’ve probably mentioned this at some point before, but I’m an English teacher in the real world. I bring this up because I love language and the way that it functions. One of my favorite things is portmanteau – taking [...]
The first full length from Swedish death metallers Tehom is a little weird, for while The Merciless Light is still primarily a death metal album, at times it crosses over to the abyss of black metal, especially in [...]
Cleveland-based one-man outfit Endless Voyage X is a great example of what I like to call a ‘not quite’ band – they’re a band that straddles a couple of genres without fitting very neatly into either, and I generally [...]
Blackened death metal. War metal. Bestial black metal. Whatever your preferred name for the subgenre, there’s certainly a lot of it out there these days. Unfortunately, a lot of it isn’t very good. Don’t get me wrong [...]
