Botanist

Demo:listen: Enon Chapel

February 15, 2019

This week’s Demo:listen features the mysterious and macabre black metal of US-based duo Enon Chapel.

Full Album Stream: Lotus Thief – ‘Gramarye’

September 16, 2016

Lotus Thief‘s Gramarye is a beautiful album that draws from some of history’s most renowned texts to create an atmospheric journey through time. Listen to it in full now. 

Botanist’s Otrebor Interviews Pestilential Shadows

December 11, 2014

I consider Botanist to be one of modern black metal’s great “projects.” Germinated by a solitary San Franciscan named Otrebor, it’s a band whose music is both utterly bizarre (floraphilic paeans from a misanthropic hermit, rendered only in drums, voice and hammered dulcimer) and emotionally devastating. This is all to say that when Otrebor tells…