Australia's Rebel Wizard employs a lethal blend of fidelity-be-damned black metal and fist-pumping, over-the-top heavy metal that mastermind Bob Nekrasov describes as "the new wave of negative wizard metal." Emerging in the early 2010s, the one-man band issued his debut album, Triumph of Gloom, in 2016, and has continued to pick at the carcasses of icy extreme metal and riff-heavy NWOBHM on subsequent efforts like Voluptuous Worship of Rapture and Response (2018) and Magickal Mystical Indifference (2020).
Melbourne-based Bob Nekrasov, who also operates the long-running monon...