It doesn’t take a genius to realize that the sheer number of rising acts that are soaring through the rock underground is beyond count by all means. No matter where you look, no matter from what direction, no matter the … Continue reading Duskwood – The Last Voyage
It is one thing to bring some level of emotion into your black metal. That’s something that we’re always seeing on at least some level no matter where we look, it is simply some veins that implement it more than … Continue reading Vitriolic Sage – 梦路
The very premise of power metal is more than enough to get my attention and quicken my heartbeat given the raw potential of its themes and settings that always tickle the imagination to no end. Unfortunately for me, my experience … Continue reading Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel
Without a doubt in my mind, the old schools of metal are not going away anytime soon no matter what anyone may say. The procession of time will always bring forward plenty of changes in any sound throughout the whole … Continue reading Funeral Winds – Stigmata Mali
There is nothing quite like some death metal that can come before the listener without any sort of fat on its bones with a singular mission in mind: mass destruction. Something that’s able to keep everything simple while constantly finding … Continue reading Olkoth – At the Eye of Chaos
While there was a time where the world of ambient called my name, I have to admit that it has been some time since I’ve laid down in those dark mists for no reason other than there really hasn’t been … Continue reading Neraterræ / Chaigidel – Lamaštu
For years now, I have been fascinated by long-form doom metal that takes the style to extremes. It tends to be from the niche realm of funeral doom metal where we get such releases on any sort of a basis … Continue reading Eremit – Wearer of Numerous Forms
Sometimes, the simplest of projects can be all one needs to scratch any particular itch that one may have. For some time now, I’ve been hurting from some good-quality instrumental metal. Nothing that reinvents the wheel or attempts to be … Continue reading Noorag – Fossils
By no means is the world of death-doom metal in any sort of dire straits, and I wouldn’t have it any other way given what immense diversity of bands from all across the globe that we have the immense privilege … Continue reading Shrouded in Darkness – Be None of You
Of all the acts that I have come across in my many years of doing these reviews, the one-man act of Les Chants du Hasard remains one of the most unique and inventive names that I have come across by … Continue reading Hasard – Malivore
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