Review: Boarhammer – III: Instruments of Fungal Intent

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 31st October 2026 We’ve followed mystic German black metallers Boarhammer since their debut EP in 2021 (the superb ‘I: Cutting Wood for Magickal Purposes’, reviewed here) and their debut full length ‘II: Chemognosis – A Shortcut to Mushrooms”(also reviewed here), and I’ve always enjoyed just how their proto-black metal sound is forged within a haunting, psychedelia drenched atmosphere. Well, the band have returned with the follow up to that debut, their sophomore effort ‘ III: Instruments of Fungal Intent’, which they have just self released on the most suitable day of the year for it, Samhain. Well, when else would you release an album that revels in its old school, woodland mysticism and psych riddled black metal? The hooting owl, the ghostly keyboard, then the grinding old black metal riff; ah, this is Boarhammer alright. They’ve always had a delightfully old fashioned sound, preferring Venom and Hellhammer to Darkthrone and Mayhem, but ‘Forest…