Symphonic Black Metal

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated April 10, 2026 4472 1 2

I don’t listen to black metal nearly as often as I did 15–20 years ago, but every so often an album emerges that demands attention. Tales of Othertime, the latest offering from Denver-based Stormkeep, is one of those rare records. Firmly...

NIGHT CROWNED Impius Viam Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 2423 1 2

Black Metal hasn’t featured on my menu too often the later years to be honest, but there are of course exceptions and I can still appreciate well produced symphonic black metal once in a while. Although Night Crowned probably is a relatively new name...

DRAGONLORD Dominion Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 2598 1 2

To be honest I can´t remember having heard Dragonlord before, but to my defence it has to be added that black metal haven´t exactly been my main focus in the later years. Howerver, Dragonlord is the black metal side project of Testament guitarist Eric...

DIMMU BORGIR Eonian Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated September 09, 2021 3199 2 2

Norwegian symphonic black metal veterans Dimmu Borgir are returning to the limelight with their long awaited 10th studio album which also marks the bands 25th anniversary. The album is entitled 'Eonian', which means something like 'Everlasting' and the lyrical theme deals with how humans...

IMAGES AT TWILIGHT Kings Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen December 01, 2015 6462 0 1

The idea of what was later to become Images At Twilight was born in the late nineties by founder Andre Aaslie, but it was not until 2010 he felt the software technology was good enough to create the symphonic and orchestral aspect he was...

THULCANDRA - Ascension Lost Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated February 04, 2015 5063 1 1

Thulcandra was founded back in 2003 by Steffen Kummerer (OBSCURA) and Juergen Zintz with a clear intention of composing music in the vein of acts such as Dissection, Sacramentum and Unanimated, a celebration of old-school Swedish blackened death metal as the band states on...

VESANIA Deus Ex Machina Hot

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Album EK Even Knudsen Updated December 04, 2014 3826 1 1

It has been a long wait for the follow up album to the excellent 2007 effort from Vesania, ‘Distractive Killusions’, but now it’s finally here. Featuring present and past members of Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir and Decapitated it’s impossible for Vesania to avoid the ‘Super...


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