Thantifaxath

Toronto's Prepare the Ground Festival Gets Liturgy, KEN Mode, Mares of Thrace, Burning Love, Orchid for Inaugural Edition

PUBLISHED Dec 5, 2023

Prepare the Ground organizers have announced that the brand-new heavy music festival is ready to scream into Toronto for its inaugural edit...

Thantifaxath Plunge into the Depths on 'Hive Mind Narcosis'

PUBLISHED Jun 2, 2023

Hive Mind Narcosis is an album of dueling identities. On the one hand, the album features bleak and cold elements of black metal. On the ot...

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Void Masquerading as Matter

PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2017

Looking back on its origins in raw and primitive sounding bands like Venom and Bathory, it's staggering to think of how far black metal has...

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Hard Luck Bar, Toronto ON, November 2

PUBLISHED Nov 3, 2017

On Thursday, November 2, Toronto experienced perhaps the strongest extreme metal show of 2017.   Kicking things off was Guelph, ON troupe t...

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Sacred White Noise

PUBLISHED Apr 15, 2014

Much has been made of black metal's dissolution into a broader pool of post-y daintiness in recent months, with lines in the sand being dra...