For all that heaviness can bring to the table, it has been made clear many times over that the more psychedelic reaches of the concept has found itself in quite the year with a true menagerie of names coming around … Continue reading Blue Heron – Everything Fades
It’s fascinating all the things that can go into a single album with the very lives and experiences of the band members often playing huge roles in their works. That notion alone points us in the direction of millions of … Continue reading Fleshgod Apocalypse – Opera
It is one thing to take the steps forward through the underground to make yourself known amongst such stiff competition, but it’s another thing altogether to succeed where countless others have struggled or outright failed before you. At any given … Continue reading Isolert – Wounds of Desolation
We could sit here all day and take into consideration all that death metal has brought to the table since its inception decades ago and all that is has accomplished in that time, but there are truths that have been … Continue reading Feral – To Usurp the Thrones
While the once-breakneck rate of technical death metal releases have slowed down as of late, there’s still more than enough madness to go around should one simply know where to look with a little bit of luck certainly going quite … Continue reading Teeth – The Will of Hate
At any given moment, the underground is always ready for the arrival of a new name in black metal that can really inject some life into the sound no matter what the approach may be. Whether it be a straightforward … Continue reading Bloody Valkyria – Kingdom in Fire
When things begin to distort and transform into something nearly unrecognizable from what we normally expect, that’s when things take a natural turn for the progressive where the very bounds of genre lines between to twist and blur. Even as … Continue reading Anciients – Beyond the Reach of the Sun
For all that can still be done within the sprawling confines of the metal spectrum, it’s still not nearly often enough that a modern thrash band can come around and bring to the table something of real interest. Oftentimes, it … Continue reading Odious Spirit – The Treason of Consciousness
It was for years that I felt as though it wasn’t nearly often enough that the possibilities of sludge metal had gone largely unheralded outside of a few key exceptions. Now, I know that the best sludge is the kind … Continue reading Oldd Wvrms – Abysséphale
It’s far from a rare sight nowadays to see black metal take a turn toward sonic territory that’s atmospheric and sometimes filled with light as it’s been a bit of a movement throughout certain corners of the underground as bands … Continue reading Together to the Stars – The Fragile Silence
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