Of all the styles out there in the sprawling spectrum of metal, not many are able to easily bring forward a melancholic sound that easily takes into account a macabre beauty right alongside unyielding intensity without overpowering the other either. … Continue reading Convocation – Now Dawn for the Caliginous Night
The rising of a new band is always something that’s given the benefit of the doubt with loads of optimism as far as the eye can see, but it’s not terribly often that we see the reality of those situations … Continue reading Resin Tomb – Cerebral Purgatory
Every year, we’re given quite an array of albums that seek to take some sort of claim to renown in the vast underground with hundreds upon thousands of pieces competing and showing us all what they’re made of even if … Continue reading Sulphur Aeon – Seven Crowns and Seven Seals
Hundreds of thousands of times have we see new acts spring from the woodwork of the metal undergrowth to make their claim for glory be it to climb their way to the very top or to simply craft their own … Continue reading Banished Realm – Impious Rumination
In no small way, the underground is constantly pulsating with new talent the likes of which are always clamoring to put forth earth-shattering intensity of their own kind. Death metal, in particular, is always finding itself in a scenario where … Continue reading Saevus Finis – Facilis Descensus Averno
Every so often, we’re given a piece that really knows how to get underneath the skin. A work that manages to subvert your expectations and unnerve you in such a way that makes you twist a little in your seat … Continue reading Aabode – Moist
The very state of the Greek metal scene has never been something to question nor has it been anything that I’ve been silent about in the slightest for years now. It has long been positively overflowing with quality acts of … Continue reading Among Death’s Shadow – Darkness of My Dreams
Pulling from history is nothing new for metal by any means with it still being a constant source of inspiration even to this day. While it is the majority of acts that do dabble in looking through the past tend … Continue reading Oblivium Regnum – Zradce
Few things have been as ubiquitous in recent times as what the modern scape of technical death metal has transmutated itself into. No other sound in all metal can come even close to what it has accomplished with fewer outside … Continue reading Xoth – Exogalactic
It was only just earlier this year that the mysterious act of Ch’ahom barely poked its head out of the darkness with its partnership with Sentient Ruin Laboratories that produced a compilation of demos and an impressive one-track EP, “Ts’ono’ot”. … Continue reading Ch’ahom – Knots of Abhorrence
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