Published: July 24, 2017

At last some proper grown up black metal from the UK. No clown-shoes and corpse paint in evidence here and it’s a welcome relief as I seem to have been hearing too much of that sort of stuff lately. It’s like the old teenagers in peril stalk and slash film, you can enjoy it on one level but you hunger for something a bit more adult and mature. There’s just too much in the UK as far as this sort of music is concerned and here it’s ju...

Published: July 11, 2017 

Au royaume du black metal, heureux soit l’apeuré, car il donne du crédit à la musique qui le touche au plus profond de son être. Voici comment nous pourrions résumer avec plus ou moins d’évasion ce qui nous fait aimer ce genre musical. Le black metal cristallise certaines de nos peurs les plus prenantes. Kassad aussi. Loin d’offrir un ouvrage dont l’effroi qu’il inspire résiste à tous les artifices, la formation brit...

Published: July 10, 2017 

Lorsque je reçois des albums en promo je me fais toujours un mot d’ordre d’écouter tous les titres qui se classent dans la catégorie Black Metal. Pour la plupart du temps, on a droit à des clones ou à des albums frôlant la médiocrité. Alors le travail acharné qu’est de départager le bon grain de l’ivraie est un labeur qui requiert une grande patience. Le projet solo londonien qu’est Kassad, fera paraître son prem...

Published: July 5, 2017

Il y a des groupes dont on se sait que peu de choses, souvent par choix de ou des artistes qui se cachent derrière un projet qui se veut personnel. C'est le cas pour Kassad, dont les infos ne sont pas légions. Que sait-on ? Un minimum mais l'essentiel : un groupe de Black Metal britannique (probablement un one man band), un EP en 2016, Humans, et un longue durée, Faces Turn Away, l'objet de cet écrit. 

Faces Turn Away est un albu...

Published: June 17, 2017

Kassad  are  a  solo  project  from  the  United  Kingdom  that  plays  an  atmospheric form  of  black  metal  and  this  is a  review  of  his  2017  album  "Faces  Turn  Away"  which  will  be  released  in  July  by  Hypnotic  Dirge  Records.

Clean  playing  starts  off  the  album  before  going  into  a  very  fast  and  raw  musical  direction  that  uses  a  great amount  of  blast  beats  and  tremolo  picking  as  well...

Published: June 16, 2017

Black metal is one of those genres that does its best to overwhelm the listener, though how a particular band reaches that point varies wildly.  In the case of London based Kassad, the one man project achieves this through dense layers of instrumentation that have a warlike feel and cold industrial undertone alongside sprawling introspective soundscape...

Published: February 15, 2017

The one man black metal project known as Kassad is currently unsigned and independent AND managed to release this album! At first with a name like Kassad, the Klown expected Middle Eastern influences to go along with the sounds of black metal. The Klown was initially expecting Kassad to have Middle Eastern elements to his metal much like the Mesopotamian Bl...

Published: February 13, 2017

I have starkweather to thank (as I have in the past) for bringing this next release to my attention. It’s the debut album of the one-man London-based black metal band Kassad. Entitled Faces Turn Away, it was released on February 5 (digitally and on tape).

This album isn’t my first exposure to Kassad. Almost exactly one year ago I enthusiastically ...

Published: February 5, 2017

In the course of trying to memorize the names and other identifying characteristics of all fifty of my undergrads this semester, I’ve forgotten a few details from older articles published here on the hallowed bowl. Hopefully I can be forgiven for not recalling that our little toilet’s first introduction to cold, binary black metal act Kassad was on ...