Published: August 29, 2013

Black Metal has an ample range of sonorities inside of it, being almost a self-style out of Metal. If VENOM guys could look at this back in 1978, they would be proud of their creation. And another son of the English team comes to the light (please, no ironic puns here), the North American group OBSIDIAN TONGUE, with their second coming, “A Nest of Ravens in the Throat of Time”.

In the very same vein of ABIGAIL WILLIANS and WO...

Published: August 26, 2013

The majority of the time one-man black metal bands are just a bad idea. Massachusetts based band, Obsidian Tongue, has their roots as originally being formed as Brendan Hayter's one-man band, but more than likely realizing his limitations and silliness of using a drum machine, drummer Greg Murphy stepped in before the band even released their first recording. 2010 marked the bands lone demo, which was followed by their debut f...

Published: August 25, 2013

*Google translation of German review

It's time again for a tip. Not only does it to "A nest of Ravens In The Throat of Time", the second album by the Americans OBSIDIAN TONGUE not a single review in German is - even otherwise should the duo from Massachusetts fewest music listeners on our side of the Atlantic, a term be. And that's a shame drum. OBSIDIAN Although TONGUE indulge many of their countrymen the endless expanse of Cascadian black ...

Published: August 17, 2013

Obsidian Tongue come only a year after their debut album "Volume I: Subradiant Architecture" with a new disc into the record. And this album gives me enough reason to enthusiasm again, because the duo has refined its Trademarks and made ​​a few subtle changes. Inspired me already feeling the depth of its predecessor, Obsidian Tongue end up with this year's output of a direct hit. There is, fir...

Published: August 3, 2013

Obsidian Tongue is a band that I wasn't aware about until it was sent to me as promo from the staff of Hypnotic Dirge Records.  Hell, I am glad they sent it because in the end, it was a great album to listen to.  Hailing from Massachusetts, the band started as a one man by Brendan Hayter (Blood of the Gods, Thrawsunblat, and ex Woods of Ypres).  Later in 2009, the sampled drums were replaced by a real drummer in Greg Murp...

Published: August 1, 2013

Say what you like about the U.S. black metal scene, they know how to make so much out of so little. The number of American bands taking black metal in its arguably most minimalistic form and taking it in much more ambitious directions with long and winding song structures is quite staggering. But when you consider the roots of the black metal scene in the US, and the opus that made arguably the biggest impact on it, it doesn't seem so...