Swedish Black Metal Archives

Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeJune 3, 2022

Heavy metal encompasses so many vastly different subgenres – from the sparkle of Glam, to the grotesque of Grindcore. One less often traveled path, and in a mainstream very misunderstood, comes Black Metal. Interestingly, in the European Black Metal culture there are a few spinoffs ... Read More

Dark Funeral – We Are The Apocalypse (Album Review)

Lisa BurkeLisa BurkeMarch 14, 2022

While the first wave of Black Metal had its day with bands such as Venom and Bathory, the second wave brought some gemstones to the scene as well, including Marduk and Dark Funeral. Today, just a bit shy of 30 years after their establishment, Dark ... Read More

Wormwood – Arkivet (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoNovember 10, 2021

One of the more underrated members of the Scandinavian Black Metal horde, Sweden’s outstanding collective Wormwood returns in 2021 with their third full-length album. Entitled Arkivet, and coming to the masses on August 27th via Black Lodge Records, the group looks to build on their ... Read More

Mörk Gryning – Hinsides Vrede (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoOctober 21, 2020

An absolute monument of Swedish Black Metal, Mörk Gryning began their infernal assault way back in 1993 during the genre’s heady formative years. After a ten year span which included five high-quality full-length albums, the band took a break for about a decade. Luckily for ... Read More

Interview – Andreas Nilsson of Naglfar

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoMay 22, 2020

Keeping an underground Metal band going strong for thirty years is not an easy task. Doing so without compromising the artistic vision one bit is an even bigger challenge. For Guitarist Andreas Nilsson of Naglfar, however, following the heart was the only path he could ... Read More

Naglfar – Cerecloth (Album Review)

Nicholas FrancoNicholas FrancoMay 4, 2020

The Swedish Blackened Death Metal scene was just one facet of the nation’s fertile treasure trove of extreme sounds to develop back in the early 1990s. Many of those bands either faded away, morphed into more melodic territory, or came to violent ends. There are ... Read More

Swedish Black Metal

Watain – The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain (Album Review)