All posts by Prateek Kulkarni

Ihsahn’s musical journey over the years has been more evolving than meandering because there is a certainty in the choices he has made over the last decade and a half, whether it is the experimentation, the presentation, or the production. The [...]

Imperial Triumphant may have gotten their breakthrough via their popular 2018 album ‘Vile Luxury’, but their equally groundbreaking release ‘Abyssal Gods’ in 2015 was the defining album for the band, and it shaped the path for [...]

Being one of the most renowned post-90s black metal bands, Watain’s orthodox style that has influences from Swedish black metal melodies and Norwegian riffing has very well captured a sound that is both ferocious and catchy. Watain released some [...]

When Voivod burst into the thrash scene in the early ’80s, the seemingly naive thrash metal drenched in hardcore punk they put out already had buds of idiosyncrasy that would perk up a careful ear. With ‘Killing Technology’, the buds [...]

Before their hiatus, Dutch death metal stalwarts Pestilence released four influential albums of high quality and established themselves as a classic. Starting off with the more thrash-y death metal style, Pestilence moved on to a more technical and [...]

Dutch legends Asphyx have been around for over 30 years now and their early 90s gems are still considered to be among the best and as landmarks in death metal. Asphyx’s style of doomy pulls before the nasty grimy death metal punches have been a [...]

Out of the cornucopia that was the Swedish extreme metal in the 90s, Mörk Gryning emerged with the melodic black metal sound made more popular by bands like Dissection and Sacramentum, but Mörk Gryning had the seeds to the identity separating it [...]

Death metal stalwarts Incantation have been an influential force in the genre for about 30 years now. The sound they developed grew into the popular ‘cavernous’ blueprint seen in death metal in the last decade or so. The band has been fairly [...]