It’s every new year that many of us come back together pretty soon after coming together at the end of the last year to announce our favorites of the previous months that we all now talk about what we have … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records – Label Sampler 2019
It’s in the vast, sprawling, and labyrinthian world of music that many of us manage to lose ourselves in, and there will always be corners of it that will seem to be unattractive or even downright disgusting to some. A … Continue reading Unexplained Sounds Group – Active Noise Area
Something that I’ve always enjoyed about smaller bands is being able to witness some random, tiny act grow into something really awesome over time. Most of the time, it takes years upon years to get to any noticeable recognition after … Continue reading Devil Master – Manifestations
If you’re even the slightest bit into dark art, as in illustrations with dark themes to them (no Harry Potter jokes here), you know the name of Beksiński at the drop of a hat. It’s all but iconic to where we … Continue reading Eighth Tower Records – Decay, Death and Darkness
Of all the styles of metal that we have to choose from, it’s the worlds of grind and anything like brutal death metal that I have a hard time getting into despite my best efforts to get into them from … Continue reading Cattle Decapitation – Medium Rarities
If you look close enough to any sort of media from paintings to video games to movies to music to literature, you will find the irrefutable influence of H.P. Lovecraft popping up all over the place. The man’s legendary universe … Continue reading Eighth Tower Records – In Tenebris Scriptus
Embodying your influences in something that throngs of bands have done ever since music was a thing from cover bands to emulating one orchestral score based on another. Metal is far from a stranger to it, and I’ve always found … Continue reading Isgärde – Eowlandsvintr
For years now, the underground label of Transcending Obscurity Records has long been one that I’ve been in love with ever since hearing releases from bands like The Dead, Toxoid, and Rectified Spirit. Since then, the small label has grown … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records – Label Sampler 2018
There are few bands that can be as transdimensional as Midnight Odyssey. This band has been around for ten years now and has made quite the impact in the world of atmospheric black metal. Cosmic boundaries have been taken and redrawn … Continue reading Midnight Odyssey – Silhouettes Of Stars
I think it’s safe to say that for anyone like me who’s constantly on the search for new material that we each have specific record labels we always refer to simply because we find consistent enjoyment out of those peoples’ … Continue reading Transcending Obscurity Records: Label Sampler 2016
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