Normally, after a band puts out a near-legendary split that is a masterwork in its own right, you’d expect both bands to maybe take another year or two when that split consists of enough material to make for two full-lengths … Continue reading Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm
If you were to look into the many rising acts that grace the world of doom, you would come across that certainly stand out and I truly do believe you can’t talk about young up-and-coming acts in doom without mentioning … Continue reading Acid Mammoth – Caravan
There truly is no shortage of death metal out there that is absolutely wreathed in awesome power the likes of which cannot be found in any other style across the entirety of the world of music, and it’s even then … Continue reading Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed
The world of gothic metal is one that I’ve always had a hard time really tapping into since it can often feel like there are far too many bands with a pretentious feel to their material or it’s simply not … Continue reading Moonspell – Hermitage
It’s every now and then that we can receive a body of work that perfectly encapsulates so much of what the modern state of the given style is capable of, and even that can take on many different forms. That … Continue reading Kråkslott – The Witchhammer
Any time I sit down to listen to anything tagged with “pagan”, mostly pagan black metal, it always feels like it’s hit or miss when it comes to the overall enjoyment of the record at hand since it can often … Continue reading Helgrind – Return to Motherland
Infusing your work with comedy is always a tricky thing by nature since humor is absolutely a subjective thing since it may work for you but not someone else, and it’s a damn hard task to pull it off when … Continue reading Empire Bathtub – 2 Looney 2 Moons
Bringing any sort of psychedelia into the world of black metal is an undertaking like extremely few others since it’s extremely difficult to bring those kinds of flavors into a style that is ferocious and constantly on the offensive the … Continue reading Spire – Temple of Khronos
It’s not terribly often by any standards that we can come across an album, instrumental or not, and feel like it can actually be the soundtrack to a film. Whether it’s the entire body of music for a short film, … Continue reading Cortége – Chasing Daylight
Melody has long played an important part in all music whether it be an immense focus on it or its stark absence, and it often feels like it’s the latter of the two that seems to find its place in … Continue reading WinterMoonShade – s/t
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