There aren’t many times when I find myself listening to much thrash or heavy metal nowadays that I can really feel the power that’s at play throughout the album. Sure, speed and riffs tend to have large roles in both … Continue reading Ice War – Defender, Destroyer
While the great vast majority of albums that I review here fall into the worlds of rock and metal, I find it both fun and important to wander elsewhere. The somewhat adjacent realms of atmospheric styles like noise, ambient, neofolk, … Continue reading Osi and the Jupiter – Appalachia
It’s not unoften that I find myself listening to an album and eventually turning it off just because it hasn’t grasped me in any sort of way. That’s something every music fan can admit to whether they like it or … Continue reading Disamara – Notturna è la Quiete
Scouring Bandcamp for something that raises an eyebrow is always a fun search if you’re someone like me who will just pick a random direction to search in hoping for something good, and it’s always incredibly rewarding when you find … Continue reading Obolus – s/t
Incredibly raw, caustic, and unforgiving extreme metal is far from an uncommon sight in today’s climate where it can easily seem like there’s a constant arms race across the underground that continues to fire off an undeniably aggressive and hugely … Continue reading Barbaric Horde – Axe of Superior Savagery
We’ve all come across artists of many different kinds of styles that consider themselves the highest level that an artist could be as they consider themselves auteurs and other fancy terms. Very smarmy pricks that make you hate the word … Continue reading Mario Lino Stancati – Cross the Desert
I have always been the type of person to really enjoy music that goes above and beyond to create something unique and special the likes of which we’ve rarely heard before if at all. But, that doesn’t mean even the … Continue reading Cursed Be Thy Flesh – The Ritual
The number of instances where there comes a new band out of the woodwork from wherever on the planet that offers something even a little interesting is simply too high to count for anybody. But, the number of those who … Continue reading Brigantia – Midnight
At some point all the bands that I’ve come across in my time of doing these reviews, it’s not a shock that some bands, however notable, will fade into the back of my head over time just because of the … Continue reading Ljosazabojstwa – Głoryja Śmierci
If we were to make a chart for this band that showed us their overall progress as a unit from just about every angle, there’d be dramatic increases in every single field. Even though they’ve only put out three albums … Continue reading Forming the Void – Reverie
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