Starting out with a keyboard intro track, Dark Amusement is a concept album which tells the story of Jollybean, a clown. Don’t let that scare you away though. The themes are used more for a creepy atmosphere than as a gimmick.

I was almost hesitant to listen to this. For the past few years, Gorgoroth has been more or less a circus. The only thing more annoying than the members of Gorgoroth were the fans (and also those who dislike them and say so loudly and often).

Because my musical tastes are notoriously inbred, and because I am saddened by the delay of the new Blodarv mini CD, I hunted this down, a Danish raw black metal band with two of the members of Blodarv (Hugin and Huul) which I have heard terrible things about (again, I am a glutton for sonic [...]

The first time I listened to this I had a massive fever and was on all sorts of cold medicines, and I just could not figure out what was up with this band. Having heard some of their other songs before this, this seemed rather slow and weird to me. Based on the death of [...]

Blodarv is one of those bands I used to sort of feel like I shouldn’t like at all, yet I find them terribly charming to such an extent that I now consider them to be among my favorite bands. It’s partly the style of black metal that I feel I should take offense to, while [...]

I recall reading a blurb describing this band somewhere, saying it was like some band or another, I forget who, on crack. Yeah. That pretty much describes Blodarv though. Black Metal on crack. I love it. Well, much of it; “love” would be too strong a word to use for various of the ambient and [...]

What a fucking excellent split! I don’t usually start a review that way, but what the hell, this is good stuff. I’ll start with the Blodarv half beacause I like it slightly better. “A Thousand Wounds on my Body” sets the mood ith some samples, sounds of rain, and spoken lyrics, but things don’t actually [...]

This was a bit harder to review and get into, I have to say, due to the inclusion of female vocalist Isaz, and while on one hand, when people bitch about female vocals based just on their being female, that makes me want to punch such people in the face, on the other hand, I [...]

I’m reviewing old stuff again, but I don’t give a damn. Anyway, Having finally gotten copies of this and Mysteriis, I now own and have reviewed every single Blodarv release except the Baalberith split, but I understand that it is the same as Mysteriis anyway. Anyway, my work here on earth is complete now [...]

Starting off with “Forseglet forevigt,” this seems slightly more guitar-based than Murder in the Name of Satan. Rather different versions later appeared on the Heksen 7,” Deamonis and Soulcollector. Despite some great songs having been on Murder…, this does seem to show a progression in the songwriting quality, in that it doesn’t really have [...]