True heaviness is something that cannot be denied for when it’s done right, it is truly something else entirely to behold. Doom is one of the best vessels to bring such a vicious intensity to our ears with its classic … Continue reading Ommnus – A Single Green Light
A proper funeral doom record is truly like nothing else in music. Sure, I can and have said that about other styles of metal that have graced my ears over the years, but it is singularly the world of funeral … Continue reading Solemn Echoes – Into the Depths of Sorrow
Black metal has never been lacking a mystical factor even since its early days. It’s not that hard to implement a sense of mysticism into the harsh style as even something as small as half-decent chimes could make for an … Continue reading Volc Vermaledide – Nietig
Truly, the seething floor of the underground is a thing of decrepit beauty. You never know what’s going to come spewing forth from underneath those rotting floorboards with all sorts of acts busting out at different paces as we see … Continue reading Gosudar – Morbid Despotic Ritual
It’s not terribly often that I find myself bewildered by a piece of material strictly due to its performance because it really does feel like it’s hard to catch avid listeners off guard anymore, but that couldn’t be any further … Continue reading Betty Benedeadly – From the Mesa
The constant evolution of progressive metal is something that will never cease to amaze me as even though the style is the very essence of tenacious musicians pushing the genre to become so much more, it’s constantly overflowing with more … Continue reading Obzene – The Human Condition
Thrash has always been and will likely always be one of those styles that I always want to get more into, but there’s a wall preventing me from doing so despite my best efforts to overcome such an obstacle. It’s … Continue reading Refore – Built To Nothing
There are some out there who have the very foolish belief that the straight style known as heavy metal is far too easy to create with you really just needing to take some rhythms performed with a mild heaviness to … Continue reading Profaned – Surreal Existence
Riffs, man. With an attitude to match, there’s nothing quite like a deadly riff. That very philosophy has permeated every level of doom metal and, especially, desert/stoner rock with that union being the very thing that draws many of us … Continue reading Indus Valley Kings – s/t
Truly, there’s nothing quite like some quality heavy rock to just lean back into. There are several sounds throughout the entire world of music that we can just turn on and forget about life, but there’s a special power to … Continue reading From the Ages – I
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