At any given moment, there are throngs of fresh names out there in the underground waiting to be discovered by anyone and everyone who chooses to get their hands dirty, start digging through the cacophonous depths, and find something that … Continue reading Vanishing Grasp – Pang of Phantom Self
While many of us tend to find metal all over the world from the usual suspects like Scandinavia, there are still bastions of the underground to be found in virtually every country across the world, yet not all of them … Continue reading Coscradh – Carving the Causeway to the Otherworld
Any band’s first steps are always important. More often than not, those initial decisions are what set the tone for what’s to come as a band moves through the scene at their own pace, and it’s oftentimes the backbone of … Continue reading Ailurophobia – Contemplation of a Declining World
For quite some time now, technical death metal has been unpredictable for all that its denizens dare to summon from nothingness in order to show us both what they can offer listeners as well as showcasing just how much more … Continue reading Xenosis – Hermetic Transmutation
Death metal, for all intents and purposes, has always been in a bit of an arms race. There’s a constant unspoken and rarely talked about struggle between the throngs of acts spread throughout the underground on who brings the most … Continue reading Teratoma – Longing Voracity
To be weird and off-kilter is to try for something that hardly anyone else can ever hope to bring to the table, and that requires just as much vision and daring as it does talent and passion in order to … Continue reading Defect Designer – Depressants
The simple act of creating something that is undeniably your own is to craft something that is unlike anything else that has come before, and it always comes with a significant level of risk. If you truly go for it … Continue reading Saprovore – Unuttered Aporetic Omen
For as long as I’ve been doing these reviews, the concept of evolution is something that I love coming back around to. When a band manages to truly embody that concept and all the difficulties that come with bringing it … Continue reading The Scalar Process – Agnomysticism
For all intents and purposes, the Swedes have maintained their foothold and influence over a vast swathe of the metal world with time certainly being more than kind to the country and its artists. In particular, the stranglehold that Sweden … Continue reading Eye of Purgatory – Darkborne
Every so often, we’re met with talent that is not only a breath of fresh air, but something that changes the very name of the game. Where we’re constantly inundated with names that stick well within the boundaries of their … Continue reading Cryptic Shift – Overspace & Supertime
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