Every now and then, we’re all lucky enough to come across an album that catches you from all angles and manages to hit on all the right notes. Whenever I sit down to find something to really sink my teeth … Continue reading Formation Ritual – The Shifting Dust
Normally, whenever we deal with musicians in the world of metal who have dense backgrounds, it tends to be that those backgrounds are in other reaches of the metal underground without loads of work put in. But, on occasion, we’re … Continue reading Labyrinth of Stars – Spectrum Xenomorph
The very grotesque nature of death metal is something that can be achieved with virtually minimal effort nowadays with how well-accomplished the sound has been in that regard for decades now, but it’s almost always a spectacle when a band … Continue reading Dysgnostic – Scar Echoes
We could sit here for days and talk about the current state that the landscape of technical death metal finds itself in. It’s a glorious circumstance that is viciously compelling to lay one’s eyes upon for all the talent and … Continue reading Greylotus – Dawnfall
Whether we like it or not, death metal has reached a state that allows it to be deemed as truly amorphous. You can never truly pin it down with all deliciously diverse the sound has become over the decades with … Continue reading Hussar – All-Consuming Hunger
It can often feel as though the very humble levels of the doom underground can lead to only one of two paths: (1) mind-blowing talent that’s destined for a meteoric rise, or (2) creations that never climbed the ladder of … Continue reading Endonomos – s/t
The very boundaries of progressive metal are not to be quantified by the simple limitations of the human mind, for its territory is truly ever-expanding. Every month brings us at least one new effort that pushes those boundaries somewhere further … Continue reading Epoch of Chirality – Nucleosynthesis
The very prospect of creating a sound that’s as uncompromising, unyielding, and all-powerful with depths that seem truly unending is something that a small corner of doom metal and its contemporaries are constantly striving for, but it’s because such a … Continue reading Lightless – Descent to Insignificance
Recently, the Native American representation in the world of black metal has been on a meteoric rise, and it’s in every way that it offers a fresh and fascinating new lens for black metal to look through despite how dense … Continue reading Blackbraid – Blackbraid I
For the most part, I think it’s safe to say that black metal is a vicious sound that doesn’t usually offer much in the way of color, emotions, or any form of bliss whatsoever so long as you’re keeping even … Continue reading Icosandria – s/t
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