What is black metal anymore? Does the label have any meaning left? When it comes down to it, the music we celebrate here at Nine Circles is loud, abrasive, and marches to the beat of a rebellious heart. People get caught up in categorization and labelling, under the impression that pigeonholing something gives them some sort of power over it. Eigenlicht is having none of that on debut full length Self-Annihiliating Consciousness, a towering monolith of sound that pushes against the constraints of the genre, refusing to bow before something as devoid of meaning as “black metal” even as it uses some of the building blocks of the movement in its nebulous and far-reaching shape. Continue reading
