Endlessly fascinating it is to witness just how far someone can take their craft. No matter what sound we’re dealing with or what time period we find ourselves in, there are always a good number of bands out there in … Continue reading Ikitan – Shaping the Chaos
To set yourself apart such that you stand out quite a bit from the crowd is an exceedingly hard thing to do. Given the sheer breadth and depth that the underground has to offer, it can seem downright insurmountable to … Continue reading Nothing – The Self Repair Manifesto
Evolution is something that many of us love to talk about, yet it is a tricky thing that is extremely hard to accomplish even for the most talented of musicians. It’s the sort of accomplishment that sets the truly talented … Continue reading Gigafauna – Eye to Windward
As we find ourselves amidst an age of innovation where it seems to be that bands new and old are seeking to carve out new corners of their respective sounds, it remains a substantial constant that it doesn’t oftentimes feel … Continue reading Sykofant – Red Sun
The very fringes of what metal can still become is something where truly anything feels possible. As long as an act has an imagination and the capacity to bring it to life, it can oftentimes be the case that there … Continue reading Sarmat – Upgrade
Growth is something that is simply mandatory for any band looking to make their mark. Whether that mark is upon its listeners or the genre at large, it takes something exceptional to deliver one performance after another that defies typical … Continue reading Vokonis – Transitions
A band’s evolution can oftentimes be the most exhilarating part of watching one go from an unknown underground entity to a massive presence that cannot take one move without throngs of people taking note. While there’s always plenty of room … Continue reading Blood Incantation – Absolute Elsewhere
Having found myself in the midst of a brief surge of progressive greatness in the last few days, there is always room in a style like this for that wow-factor that catches you off-guard. While I’ve found myself becoming one … Continue reading Kingcrow – Hopium
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
It’s as they say: variety is the spice of life. It’s one thing to take your sound and twist it in different forms into all sorts of twisting directions in order to take your own spin upon your style of … Continue reading Mammoth Volume – Raised Up By Witches
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