–By Brendan

We’re living in an age of very “un-black metal” black metal. Wolves in the throne Room meld post-rock and shoe gaze with their deep and nature-influenced flavor of black metal;  Nachtmystium plays psychedelic infused blackened rock;  and Deathspell Omega deploys a barrage of paranoia-inducing polyrthymic and disharmonious riffs.  Simply put, black metal is evolving and growing. And because of that, so too are the people listening to black metal, and therefore the people making black metal. We now have just as many pretentious ‘hipster’, “post-whatever genre” bands as we do “trve” (pronounced ‘true’) bands. As much as all those face-paint wearing, satan worshiping cvltists (pronounced ‘cultists’) would have you believe, this is not a bad thing. Case and point: Deafheaven’s Roads to Judah EP. [Read more...]