Every so often when finding new material to review, you come upon something that is really hard to pin down, understand, and put into words even if the mind compels someone like me to do that very thing. Each year … Continue reading Venomous Echoes – Split Formations and Infinite Mania
Already, 2024 has been blessed in the ways of quality doom metal with the instrumental reaches of the sound being particularly bountiful thanks to the likes of Clouds Taste Satanic, Mountain Caller, and Black Sky Giant. Every single one of … Continue reading Qilin – Parasomnia
When a band finds itself on a magnificent streak, it’s always a sight to behold. When it was revealed that Herxheim rose from the ashes of its renowned former act, many of us knew the quality and the breed of … Continue reading Herxheim – Contrapasso
Normally, the evolution of any musician would see them go forward rather than backwards. It’s through trials and challenges of many different sorts that can see a musician’s sound change over time to become quite a honed beast that is … Continue reading Udåd – s/t
At any given time, there’s a long list of bands out there in the dense jungle of madness that is the metal underground that are priming themselves to really show us what they’re made of in some form or another … Continue reading Crawl – Altar of Disgust
Wreathed in smoke and always looking to trip out to another plane of existence, stoner metal is something that has long had a foothold in many corners of the underground, but it can often feel as though it’s always lingering … Continue reading Hastronaut – No Return
Folk metal has long been one of my favorite sounds in the vast spectrum of metal for all that it can bring to the table with real magic flowing within the very foundations of the style, but not enough do … Continue reading Furor Gallico – Future to Come
At the intersection where metal and history meet, it’s not uncommon to come across some of the very best works that metal can ever hope to bring forward. Such a combination is something that we can get a seemingly infinite … Continue reading Griffon – De Republica
A band that dares to challenge itself and its own medium is something that, fortunately, we’ve seen plenty instances of in recent times. Even so, it’s not always terribly often to bear witness to acts that are actually able to … Continue reading Chapel of Disease – Echoes of Light
While there are plenty of reaches of psychedelic rock that are heralded in for all that they can conjure, it’s the instrumental realms that I find particularly fascinating. For years has the voiceless corner of the trippy style been throwing … Continue reading Pyramid – Beyond Borders of Time
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