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
In the modern digital age that we find ourselves in, it is all but effortless for bands to find themselves mixing styles and genres together intentionally and unintentionally to create efforts that can just as easily be fresh as they … Continue reading Glacier – A Distant, Violent Shudder
When you spend enough time in the underground, you begin to realize that even though there are countries that are more active and reliable than others across the world when it comes to delivering quality metal like America, England, Germany, … Continue reading Partholón – The Ocean Pours In
Often enough have the many different realms of doom metal received a psychedelic gloss in recent times with there being several acts coming out of the woodwork to show us what can still be done with the concept, but it’s … Continue reading Ainu – s/t
As we traverse the many different sides to the vast underground with its vastly different scenes and hundreds of thousands of inhabitants, if not millions, it’s only natural that we get some bands that manage to not just do their … Continue reading Million Moons – I May Be Some Time
The very notion of being expansive and imaginative by name is something that few realms are able to incorporate into their very being as well as what instrumental rock has done over the years. Through tons of experimentation, soul-searching, and … Continue reading Goodbye Meteor – We Could Have Been Radiant
When we’re in the company of extreme metal, things tend to be dark and very aggressive in more ways than one. There’s nothing wrong with that as that has been the basis for an endless number of fantastic albums that … Continue reading Ba’al – Soft Eyes
Oftentimes do we see plenty of acts come around trying to bring some sense of atmosphere to metal with there always being varying levels of success even when we’re dealing within the veins that tend to have more luck in … Continue reading Leaving – Liminal
There’s are multiple reasons why many fawn over bands like Neurosis, YOB, Pallbearer, and others that walk those same lines, and it’s due to in no small part being better at the craft than practically everybody else. Very few other … Continue reading Subterraen – In the Aftermath of Blight
I have been well beyond impressed with the representation that 2024 has already given us in many of the different styles across the underground with there seeming to be at least one or two albums in each broad vein to … Continue reading Vnder a Crvmbling Moon – II: Aging & Formless