When it comes to worthwhile pieces of heavy rock, heavy psych, doom rock, or anything that could be categorized as such in any way, there truly is no shortage in this modern golden age for the style. It’s been a … Continue reading Blackjack Mountain – Holding Time
The very seething underbelly of the underground that death metal calls home is one of the most interesting places simply because you rarely know what you’re going to find. There’s everything from an extremely fresh and young act with not … Continue reading Begravement – Conjuring the Necromancer
To create an enthralling piece of progressive metal is to think outside of the box in an already out-of-the-box style. It’s incredibly difficult to do even though the style is prime real estate for innovation given its very nature, but … Continue reading Phase Transition – Relatively Speaking
When the quarantines started going around the world, it was a truly dark time for the vast majority of us who felt like we had nothing to do, but, lucky for us, the musicians never stopped in their toiling. What … Continue reading Lam – Liber K
With the many different iterations of metal out there, it can often feel hard to find something worth sinking your teeth into when it feels like every other band is trying to create something new whilst doing the exact opposite. … Continue reading The Chronicles of Manimal and Samara – Full Spectrum
Just looking back at the last twelve months of our miserable lives is enough to make every single one of us sigh with a collective agreement of “Fuck”. However, one thing that’s been helping us power through more than ever … Continue reading Aberration – s/t
If you were to look at the doom scene as a whole, you would almost immediately notice some trends. Whether they be related to the sound itself between albums or the similarities between band names with words like weed, mammoth, … Continue reading Dungeon Weed – Mind Palace of the Mushroom God
It’s more often than not that we find metal coming from the same set of countries, but it’s when you put in a little bit of elbow grease and go outside the normal boundaries that you tend to find greatness … Continue reading Sepulcros – Vazio
It’s very hard to find folk metal bands out there that feel actually worth talking about. Oftentimes, we see bands take easy routes to create material that is loosely folk metal but rather something that comes across like gimmicky black … Continue reading Hand of Kalliach – Shade Beyond
To come across an album with a wondrous atmosphere is something that many of us think is a lot rarer than what it actually is, but it is nonetheless a boon whose value never wanes. It’s more often than not … Continue reading Gjoad – Samanōn
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