Michael "Strider"

Raw black metal from Iraq lights a spark from the past for Strider. Check out his review here.

Strider is surfing the metaphysical waves off the coast of Portugal with Ethereal Wound's new album. Check his review here.

Strider has checked out new Finish entity Withering Emptiness, and here is his report on their new EP.

If Finland wasn't bleak enough for you; Strider dug up some Suomi DSBM. Check out if his wrists made it through this short demo.

Strider gets caught in a transcontinental whirlwind that is the american and russian atmospheric black metal duo Aedelgard. Read about his thoughts of their debut here.

Gyves gives Strider the chills, in all the right ways. Read his take on this swedish one man atmospheric black metal debut here.

Strider explores french one man medieval themed black metal this time around. Je ne sais quoi, read the review to find out more.

Canadian norse themed folk black metal sounds awesome. So we sent Strider into the snow covered forest to check this out.

One man atmospheric black metal? Strider ventured far into the russian forests to discover this project, read all about it here.

Strider goes to Italy to check out this new one man atmospheric black metal project's debut. Check out the full review here.

Strider checks out Urisk's debut full length. Does this german atmospheric black metal duo deliver the goods?

Strider took a detour to Finland and came back with this, the second album from one man melodic black metal project Bloody Valkyria. Check out his full review here.

It's underground and it's raw. The kind of black metal that Strider enjoys. Does this one man band deliver the goods? Check out the review to find out.

Drudensang released their new EP Geysterzvvang, Michael dove in and is ready to share his thoughts on it in this review.

Strider says "très très bien" when listening to one man band Souillé's debut. Read all about what else he has to say about this french atmospheric black metal opus.

Strider gets lost out in the wilderness in Milwaukee and is rescued by a group of corpse painted lunatics. Check out his review of their debut EP here!

Strider digs deep and discovers US atmospheric BM duo Føsphene's debut full length. Join his discovery here.

Bötes Void blends ambient music with their cosmic inspired atmospheric black metal. Let Strider guide you through to the other side of this black hole in his review here.

Strider tries to learn Bulgarian as he reviews latest EP from atmospheric folk black metal outfit Svarrogh.

Strider wanders out in the forest and stumbles upon a purple castle on the hill. Is this Dissection, is this Emperor? No it's Hekseblad casting their first full length spell and Strider is ready to be enthralled..