Most of the time, you’ll find me in a folk metal drought as even though I love the style up and down I find myself being incredibly picky with it against my better judgment. Yet, despite that, I’ve been hearing … Continue reading Mongol – The Return
Every now and then, we’re gifted with a black metal act that really knows how to transcend the style in many different ways. From hearkening back to the classic and cold days of black metal to today’s incredibly unpredictable scene … Continue reading Dødsferd – Diseased Remnants of A Dying World
The art of death metal is something that’s not incredibly difficult to imagine as there are so many different influences and acts to draw from with just about every imaginable template available to you ripe for copying or tweaking. But … Continue reading Kåabalh – s/t
The art of the riff is something that a seemingly infinite number of bands try their hand at to all sorts of degrees of success with some coming off feeling lazy and unimagined while others wield the riffs incredibly well … Continue reading Nekromant – The Nekromant Lives
There were few bands that captured my imagination and brought my attention to the world of post-metal than Minsk with their still magnificent 2015 album “The Crash and the Draw”. It’s still my favorite record of the genre as it … Continue reading Minsk / Zatokrev – Bigod
If you’re anything like me, you can easily gravitate towards metal that has a psychedelic edge to it simply because why the fuck not? Black metal has long been one of the styles other than death and thrash metal that … Continue reading Entropia – Vacuum
The concept of making doom or even sludge with a little bit of psychedelia is far from anything new as it’s been done for literally decades, but there’s always a way to keep it interesting even if you don’t do … Continue reading Domkraft – Flood
Much like what I said but two days ago, the pagan metal is something that I’ve always felt partial to but has always favored it more for the folk elements and spirituality above all else as I love that shit. … Continue reading Crystalmoors / Hordak – Árguma / Ophiusa
Extreme metal as a whole is something that has continued to evolve from one generation to the next as each proceeding generation of budding metalheads always tries to make things bigger and better than before. Sometimes it doesn’t work, but … Continue reading Outer Heaven – Realms of Eternal Decay
The majesty and mysticism of the forest is something that I feel a lot of us can lose ourselves in simply because of how wondrous and alluring it can be without even trying sometimes. It’s been well over a year … Continue reading Marrasmieli – s/t
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