In any given year, decade, century, or whatever frame of time you feel like using, there are always a set of performances that people were particularly fond of with a subsidy of them truly standing the test of time. When … Continue reading Spectral Voice – Sparagmos
On occasion when we see a split album come into being, it can be all too easy that the bands in question put forth material that are little more than B-sides or rarity tracks for the acts to bring out … Continue reading Ommnus / My Pitbull Lucifer – split
Structure and consistency is something that we all crave for in one form or another with music absolutely being a big piece of our lives that almost always benefits from a rigid structure. In certain reaches of what music has … Continue reading Myælin – Naesekhnaetri
There’s nothing that can denied about the uncompromising and outright homicidal extreme metal that doesn’t even try to hide its dark nature, constantly inviting the listener deeper into its chasms where only traps await them along with their naive souls. … Continue reading Abyssal Rift – Extirpation Dirge
It would be crass of any of us to try and deny the impact that psychedelia has had upon the human experience over the course of thousands of generations with modern music, in particular, one of the fields that greatly … Continue reading Gula – Birds of the Apocalypse
There are simply some albums out there that you need more time with. I have been doing these reviews for a good number of years now, but it is every now and then that I still find myself coming before … Continue reading Morag Tong – Grieve
Of all the styles out there in the sprawling spectrum of metal, not many are able to easily bring forward a melancholic sound that easily takes into account a macabre beauty right alongside unyielding intensity without overpowering the other either. … Continue reading Convocation – Now Dawn for the Caliginous Night
The ancient texts of mostly forgotten lore have played important roles in the crafting of the world as we know it today with some aspects more commercially known while others continue to spend millennia mostly in the shadows of obscurity. … Continue reading Broken Pillars – Of Pillars and Primordial Myth
Hundreds of thousands of times have we see new acts spring from the woodwork of the metal undergrowth to make their claim for glory be it to climb their way to the very top or to simply craft their own … Continue reading Banished Realm – Impious Rumination
Given the extremities which the many different styles of metal tend to inhabit, it’s not uncommon to see bands from the outer reaches come together in a demented union to show us what happens when their powers are combined with … Continue reading Dominion of Suffering / Phobonoid – split
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