Best New Bands » Black Metal http://www.bestnewbands.com News, Reviews and Interviews Wed, 07 Feb 2018 02:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 Deafheaven – New Bermuda http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/deafheaven-new-bermuda/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/deafheaven-new-bermuda/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:32:51 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=27578 Los Angeles – There’s really no point in rehashing Deafheaven’s controversial status among the pantheon of “black metal” bands; that conversation has been had a million times over, a ubiquitous addition to every review, interview, or feature on the San Francisco-based band. Listening to metal fans talk about Deafheaven is a perfect lesson in confirmation

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/deafheaven-new-bermuda/feed/ 1 Liturgy Test The Faithful With ‘The Ark Work’ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/liturgy-test-faithful-ark-work/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/liturgy-test-faithful-ark-work/#comments Wed, 25 Mar 2015 23:55:02 +0000 http://www.bestnewbands.com/?p=22866 New York – Liturgy was a different sort of metal band from the start, when their debut album Renihilation came out in 2009. Renihilation sounded like a black metal album, with its witch’s howl screaming and torrential tremolo guitars and shotgun-blast drumming, but there was something else happening as well; it sounded transcendent, like someone

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]]> http://www.bestnewbands.com/album-reviews/liturgy-test-faithful-ark-work/feed/ 0 Black Breath, Keeping it Metal http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/black-breath-keeping-it-metal/ http://www.bestnewbands.com/interviews/black-breath-keeping-it-metal/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:00:00 +0000 Seattle’s five-piece Black/Thrash Metal band Black Breath has recently announced their first European tour since forming in 2005. Their rush onto the international scene has a lot to do with the outstanding success of their 2008 EP Razor to Oblivion, which alternated between sounding like1990’s-era early black metal (alla Bathory) and, sporadically, punk—especially in its

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