To have discovered Gateway with their eponymous work six years back was to know that you had stumbled upon a band that could very well entrench themselves into the annals of essential death/doom out of the underground with a next … Continue reading Gateway – Flesh Reborn
To challenge yourself as a creator of any sort of musical material is to set yourself down a path that has no clear ending for it varies from one artist to the next with one being given the limelight with … Continue reading Esoctrilihum – Dy’th Requiem For The Serpent Telepath
It was with 2019’s “Neon Graves” that my eyes were opened to a Flordian death metal band that actually managed to bring forth a staggeringly potent crust influence into their work that managed to elevate the album to become one … Continue reading Goregäng – Long Live the Grime
It can often feel like the world of death/doom for all of its potential excellence and glory to be had within its deeply emotional themes can sound oddly monotone in the wrong hands. It takes true craftsmen to really weave … Continue reading Woe Unto Me – Spiral-Shaped Hopewreck
With all the many different sounds there are in the world, I really do believe that there aren’t nearly enough instances of death and folk metal coming together to deliver us a vicious experience the likes of which truly cannot … Continue reading Stormtide – A Throne of Hollow Fire
If you’re going to even think about talking about the modern state of Finnish death metal, especially when it comes to rising names, you cannot go far without at the very least taking into consideration Sadistik Forest. They’ve been a … Continue reading Sadistik Forest – Obscure Old Remains
It is the in-between realm of death/thrash metal that I feel needs more fleshing out. Oh sure, there are tons of bands within its borders and throngs more when you divide the two, but it’s in that merge area in … Continue reading The Crown – Royal Destroyer
An emotional core is far from a new concept when we take any form of doom metal into consideration, but there are few styles that are able to even hold a torch to the powerhouse of soul-touching heaviness that the … Continue reading Rise to the Sky – Let Men Drown With You
We could sit here all day and have a mostly civil conversation about the pros and cons between modern takes on death metal that aren’t afraid to do something fresh with a modern coat of shine and those that feel … Continue reading Orecus – The Obliterationist
When it comes to extreme metal bands taking influence from wars past, there really does not feel to be any shortage of acts that are able to do the concept injustice. From legends like Bolt Thrower to modern legends-in-the-making like … Continue reading Chainsword – Blightmarch
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