Of all the many different smaller styles that exist within the wider-known styles at large, it’s the dark and still largely unexplored territory that is funeral doom metal that catches my eye in many of its forms, and it’s as … Continue reading Shattered Hope – Vespers
“Scathing” is one of those hot keywords that many of us, myself absolutely included, like to use for particular bands throughout the realms of black metal to describe acts that are particularly fiery in their power and unrelenting in their … Continue reading Isolert – World In Ruins
Experimentalism in metal has long been one of my absolute favorite things about the sound as a whole with the many halls and corridors that any given band can take the sound is oftentimes random and never repeated by any … Continue reading Plasmodium – Towers of Silence
It’s already been one fuck of a week for black metal, hasn’t it? Just two days ago, I discussed the upcoming Mare Cognitum album with that alone being enough to talk about to make many of us return our attention … Continue reading Midnight Odyssey – Biolume Part 2: The Golden Orb
Ripped straight from the promo for this album: “metal … with no creative restrictions”. Now, if you want me to raise an eyebrow and immediately start gravitating towards your album, all you need to do is boast those five words. … Continue reading Iotunn – Access All Worlds
Normally, after a band puts out a near-legendary split that is a masterwork in its own right, you’d expect both bands to maybe take another year or two when that split consists of enough material to make for two full-lengths … Continue reading Mare Cognitum – Solar Paroxysm
If you were to look into the many rising acts that grace the world of doom, you would come across that certainly stand out and I truly do believe you can’t talk about young up-and-coming acts in doom without mentioning … Continue reading Acid Mammoth – Caravan
There truly is no shortage of death metal out there that is absolutely wreathed in awesome power the likes of which cannot be found in any other style across the entirety of the world of music, and it’s even then … Continue reading Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed
The world of gothic metal is one that I’ve always had a hard time really tapping into since it can often feel like there are far too many bands with a pretentious feel to their material or it’s simply not … Continue reading Moonspell – Hermitage
It’s every now and then that we can receive a body of work that perfectly encapsulates so much of what the modern state of the given style is capable of, and even that can take on many different forms. That … Continue reading Kråkslott – The Witchhammer
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