Review: Grave Pilgrim – The Pungent wine of Pride
English: Some bands strain desperately to be original. Others take familiar ingredients and shape them into something that feels immediately recognizable as
Tag: Black Metal
Review: Folteraar – Demo MMXXVI
English: Folteraar is back. After an absence of no less than ten years, K, the man behind an impressive number of bands
Review: Taake – Einstoeingen og Eg
English: Normally, I don’t review standalone singles for Merg & Been. I prefer to wait until a full album is released so
Review: Verletzen – Usurping The Throne Under The Crown of Blasphemy
English: Verletzen, which means “to wound” in German, is a band whose name I had seen floating around before, but one I
Review: Amputorium – Amputorium
English: A new release on Nuclear War Now! from Belgium, but by whom exactly? For now, that remains a mystery. Concrete information
Review: Nachtheem – Waan van de Leegte
English: Where the mysterious Dutch outfit Nachtheem was once accused of being little more than a copy of Vermod, the individuals behind
Old but gold: Embra – Abjection
English: With Merg & Been, we mostly write about new releases. As a dear friend of the founder of this platform, I
Live Review: Afsky/Yoth Iria 2 juni Bibelot Dordrecht
English: On Tuesday 2 June, Bibelot in Dordrecht was transformed into a true underground bunker where emotion and raw intensity came together.
Ethelmer – Departure
English: The EP Departure, released in 2025 by Dutch band Ethelmer, has been available online for several months. Although I make a reasonable
Interview: Walg
English: Walg is now a well-established name in the Dutch black metal landscape. The Groningen-based band will release their new full-length VI