Truthfully speaking, I haven’t been the world’s biggest black metal fan since the shenanigans of the Norwegian scene in the ’90s. However, over the past couple of years, there have been more and more bands taking the hateful blueprint of the genre, twisting it up and spewing out albums that have piqued my interest. One of this new wave of bands is post-black metal troop OAR who may come from the sunshine state of Sydney, Australia but, trust me when I say there is nothing sun-kissed about the cold heart that pumps life through their The Blood You Crave debut. This album kicks off in suitably dramatic fashion with the sprawling, eleven-minute title track. A relentless onslaught of harsh black metal that will be familiar to devotees of the genre, this feral delivery is interspersed with the ...