All things considered, we could sit here all day and go back and forth about the modern state of technical death metal. Instantly, names like Necrophagist, Inferi, Archspire, First Fragment, and many others would come about as absolute, undeniable pillars … Continue reading Devil’s Reef – The Droste Observer
Without so much as a doubt in my mind, I know for a fact we’re living in a golden age for all things innovative in the world of metal. Even if it’s an incredibly simple push forward into the progressive … Continue reading Dyssebeia – Garden of Stillborn Idols
The evolution of a band is one thing, but the evolution of a single visionary is something else entirely. Many times have I said that we live in a glorious age where there are just some people throughout the underground … Continue reading Vertebra Atlantis – A Dialogue with the Eeriest Sublime
To find your sound in the depths of experimentalism no matter how slight it might be is to find yourself in truly unpredictable waters. That’s the very nature of what it means to be experimental, and we live in an … Continue reading Plague Rider – Intensities
Since the earliest days of the sound, the underground has been teeming with bands that are the definition of hostility. Few genres in the entire spectrum of music have embodied that as well as metal as all that death metal … Continue reading Fossilization – Leprous Daylight
Between the dozens, if not hundreds, of legends that have come across our paths over the years, death metal has never been lacking in delivering such talent. We could spend an entire week debating on what bands are the greatest … Continue reading Dying Fetus – Make Them Beg for Death
It’s always a fascinating thing to see just how quickly a band can come back from any given album with new material that not only shows that the band in question hates the concept of idle hands, but that their … Continue reading Bekor Qilish – The Flesh of a New God
It has long been a privilege of mine to witness the rise of many names over the years that I have done these reviews. I find it endlessly fascinating to watch in real-time how bands cannot just grow upon their … Continue reading Warcrab – The Howling Silence
Some things just defy expectations. Even if you walk into an album with a great idea of what to expect down to the very tuning of the guitars, surprises are still something that can happen when you turn any corner … Continue reading Orbit Culture – Descent
The deeper you go into the underground of metal, things get very weird very fast. The same goes for how intimidating things become as you start to get acts that are crazier and more occult as you venture into the … Continue reading Ôros Kaù – Thanatos
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