At some point when it comes to splits, it can get pretty crowded pretty quickly. Two bands are typically the go-to in order to make for an effective split that has more than enough to offer in ways of substance … Continue reading Electric Moon / Kungens Män / ElonMusk / Kanaan – International Space Station (Vol. 1)
More often than not, the very injection and usage of atmosphere and dissonance in the realms of extreme metal tend to reside under the banners of black and doom metal with throngs of names out there offering proof of concept … Continue reading Devenial Verdict – Ash Blind
The very prospect of creating a sound that’s as uncompromising, unyielding, and all-powerful with depths that seem truly unending is something that a small corner of doom metal and its contemporaries are constantly striving for, but it’s because such a … Continue reading Lightless – Descent to Insignificance
To come across quality heavy metal in today’s climate is to find a true time machine. The true core of the sound has remained relatively unchanged in the decades since its invention and the brief period of fine-tuning before it … Continue reading Hell Fire – Reckoning
The very depths of the underground make for an unseemly beast that only the mad seek to dive into with the hopes of finding something more obscene and grotesque than anything else that’s come before it. For such excavators, the … Continue reading Coscradh – Nahanagan Stadial
Recently, the Native American representation in the world of black metal has been on a meteoric rise, and it’s in every way that it offers a fresh and fascinating new lens for black metal to look through despite how dense … Continue reading Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
Of the many bands that have come out of the rising world of technical and progressive death metal, there has always been an elite list that has managed to scratch the itch of those who are always looking for real … Continue reading Fallujah – Empyrean
Every single one of us has a select list of albums that we’re looking forward to at any given point. For me, there are some real constants thanks to the likes of Eremit, Itnuveth, Ende, The Re-Stoned, and loads of … Continue reading Arkheth – Clarity Came with a Cool Summer’s Breeze
I don’t think it’s any contest to make the claim that now, more than ever, the world of technical death metal finds itself in a peak golden age. The style has long been one of the craziest reaches of an … Continue reading Psycroptic – Divine Council
Following the track record of what the city typically dishes out in terms of metal bands, anything other than melodic death metal that finds its way coming out of Gothenburg, Sweden is something that is already peculiar in a way … Continue reading Demolyn – Tales of Demolyn
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