There are more than enough founts of instrumental psychedelic glory out there for us to sift through should we decide to lose ourselves in realms beyond our imagination and to leave this mundane plane of existence behind us for something … Continue reading The Spacelords – Unknown Species
When an ambitious band comes around that dares to try something we don’t see every day, it immediately catches my eye more often than not. That’s especially true for me when the material in question is a single track spanning … Continue reading Blackfold – Solarus
As one of the first metal bands that I heard to come from the country of India, Godless has always been a name I respected to my core. Their particular brand of extremity is something that I found immensely alluring … Continue reading Godless – States of Chaos
Of all the bands that have been slowly coming around over the years that have taken to the World Wars as constant sources of inspiration whether it be for entire albums or even just a song, one band among all … Continue reading 1914 – Where Fear and Weapons Meet
It takes a special breed of band to be able to bring forth any brand of dark psychedelia for simply how difficult that is to achieve in even some of its smallest forms, and it can oftentimes feel as though … Continue reading Murderbait – When the Sun Goes Down, It Goes Down Forever
If there is any single style throughout all of metal that may be considered as oversaturated, atmospheric black metal certainly has to be towards the very top of that list. The sheer amount of bands that occupy that style is … Continue reading Eos – Les Corps S’Entrechoquent
It’s been on more than one occasion where I’ve described some of the best death metal being on the very floor of the seething underground of metal where the truly nastiest of bands make their home with it being all … Continue reading Mycelium – Spore Bloody Spore
On occasion, we get an album that seems to almost spit in the very face of genre boundaries for how explorative the sound is right from the beginning and how unashamed the band in question is to explore the possibilities … Continue reading Contemplation – s/t
A good, solid gothic atmosphere is something that cannot be likened to anything else whether it be done in a sense that’s visual or aural with it being attempted by many, but few are able to pull it off with … Continue reading Veil of Conspiracy – Echoes of Winter
Whether you’re aware of it or not, it really does seem that melodic death metal finds itself at a crossroads the likes of which I find endlessly fascinating as I don’t see anything else quite like it across any of … Continue reading Sense of Noise – s/t
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