Published: January 11, 2025

Oh, Canada! I love our neighbors to the North! Well, I’m from Michigan so some of Canada actually lies South of me, but I love that country. It’s nice to see they got their postal service up and running again! And survived our asshat soon-to-be President saying he wants to take Canada for his own. What a clown. Since I started reviewing again, I have had a lot of Canadian Metal albums come my way. I mean, like a lot. Almost a...

Published: December 20, 2023

The Canadian Rockies seems like a good place to find a Tolkien and darkness inspired black metal band lurking, and wouldn’t you know it, Kings Rot are just that band. Their newest record, ‘At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness’ is out now through Hypnotic Dirge Records, and while their excellent cover art looks like it was drawn from a 70s swords and sorcery novel, their music is a focused spearhead through your mithril chain...

Published: December 10, 2023

It’s been a fairly mediocre year for standard black metal in the House ov Ken. Most of the time, the good stuff hybridized with other things like death metal (Úlfúð), psychedelia (DHG), or power metal (Moonlight Sorcery). Alberta, Canada’s King’s Rot doesn’t quite change that, but they make a valiant effort of it with their sophomore outing, At the Gates of Adversarial Darkness. Its production marks a good start, perfect...

Published: October 16, 2023

Second album from this Canadian band, who play a more melodic variety of Black Metal that has some in common with Slavonic-sounding acts like Groza or even some influences from more epic bands like Inquisition. Not as inventive as that would make that sound, this still has a good production with a lot of depth for the melodies to play in, and the songs keep things interesting with a lot of time changes and key shifts. The riffs are a bi...

Published: October 10, 2023

Canada produces some very atmospheric Black Metal to be sure and King’s Rot have been delivering the cold since 2017. Haunting vocals, catchy melody and large sweeping riffs abound on this their second full length, At The Gates Of Adversarial Darkness.

Opening track Blazing Winds Of Torment set the pace and vibe wonderfully with quiet atmospherics and the sounds of a large ancient door being dragged open and slammed shut again, ...