One of the styles that helped ease my way into liking metal is unquestionably straight heavy metal. It’s got a real charm to it that varies from band to band, and I love to discover new acts bring new takes … Continue reading Night – Raft of the World
Throughout my years as a maturing metal head, I’ve fallen in love with many corners of extreme metal as they’ve so much to offer that sound good to me, but two styles that have for the most part eluded me … Continue reading Gutslit – Amputheatre
Black metal is the sort of thing that’s so multifaceted it can take on an infinite amount of forms and be transformed into many different, distinct styles and it’s brought many bands great success through experimentation. But sometimes simplicity is … Continue reading Devil’s Emissary – Demiurge Asceticism
In my experience, there are fewer things that go well with doom quite like a good level of fuzz added to the mix because not only does it bring an interesting dynamic stylistically it also allows the listener to hear … Continue reading Cities of Mars – Temporal Rifts
For about the past year the one country that has yet to disappoint me is the nation of India when it comes to not only quality metal but also an abundance of new bands that undoubtedly carry the spirit of … Continue reading Hostilian – Monolith
This year has been a straight up god send for metal heads who have been wanting high-quality releases from all the sorts of metal groups, but one style that seems to be not getting a lot of coverage this year … Continue reading Ensiferum – Two Paths
There are a collection of bands out there that simply defy classification and labelling with their music, and that’s how they manage to achieve much more than other groups who worry too much about staying within the boundaries of their … Continue reading Botanist – Collective: The Shape of He to Come
I’m more than okay with new bands coming out of the woodwork from all over the world to try their hands at a style that has been done thousands of times prior, but the desire to create more is too … Continue reading Sheidim – Infamata
Music is always constantly changing. I feel that’s a painfully obvious fact that many won’t accept while at the same time we get people with incredible talent coming together to continually push the boundaries even further, and that goes double … Continue reading Dreadnought – A Wake In Sacred Waves
As one of the bands that made one of my absolute favorite records from last year as well as being an underground staple for all of death metal, Fetid Zombie is more entertaining than ever, and after “Epicedia” I wondered … Continue reading Fetid Zombie / Svierg – Once Still Cosmos
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