A Certain Taste

 EP Review  Artist: Lore  Title: Psychotic Trance of the Black Nights Release Date: 22/05/2026 Label; Death Prayer Records  Score: 8/10  There are moments in this underground where something crawls out of the murk that feels genuinely, defiantly alive — not polished, not packaged, not angling for a Bandcamp algorithm — just four tracks of raw, obsidian intent, dripping with the kind of conviction that makes you sit up straight and pay attention. Psychotic Trance of the Black Nights , the long-awaited follow-up from UK solo black metal entity Lore, is exactly that kind of moment. What separates Psychotic Trance of the Black Nights from the endless tide of bedroom-recorded black metal that floods the underground is a sense of genuine thematic purpose. This isn’t black metal by rote. These four tracks immerse themselves in ancient pagan mysticism, ritual darkness, and a vertiginous, almost hallucinatory obsession with the cosmic — the void not as cliché, but as fe...