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Path of Redemption – Echoes from the Depths

June 20, 2025June 16, 2025 Vinterd

The passion of the underground is not something that is easily swept aside. Even after finding oneself entrenched in all that the underground has to offer in its many halls and around treacherous corners, there are still leagues of talented … Continue reading Path of Redemption – Echoes from the Depths

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Fallen Short – Hollow Screams of a Withering Soul

June 6, 2025June 2, 2025 Vinterd

No matter how long you find yourself in the underground, it’s still a place that manages to surprise you when you least expect it. It’s not often that the depth of the murky underground allows you to get on any … Continue reading Fallen Short – Hollow Screams of a Withering Soul

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Filth – Time to Rot

June 5, 2025June 1, 2025 Vinterd

While raw heaviness is the name of the game in many areas of the metal underground, intensity and nastiness is oftentimes the path to success in many others. It’s something that has allowed many styles, especially death metal, to become … Continue reading Filth – Time to Rot

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Thanatorean – Ekstasis of Subterranean Currents

May 30, 2025May 26, 2025 Vinterd

It’s exactly as the old saying goes – great minds think alike. It’s only natural that those who make substantial moves throughout the underground would eventually, in some form or another, come together and join forces whether it be in … Continue reading Thanatorean – Ekstasis of Subterranean Currents

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Alukta – Merok

May 12, 2025May 7, 2025 Vinterd

While we find ourselves in an underground that always seems welcome to tread much of the same territory continuously with as many pleasant experiences as there are lackluster ones, there is always room for a creation that really goes against … Continue reading Alukta – Merok

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The Great Sea – Noble Art of Desolation

May 8, 2025April 25, 2025 Vinterd

The progression of the human species is something that is just as bewildering as it is terrifying to take into consideration for all that it has been accomplished in what has been described as a mere blink of an eye … Continue reading The Great Sea – Noble Art of Desolation

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In Covert – Bleak Machinery

May 5, 2025April 10, 2025 Vinterd

Every so often we find ourselves before a performance that we just did not expect whatsoever. Typically, those experiences take me into some vague corner of the metal underground where I am confronted with a band that either does things … Continue reading In Covert – Bleak Machinery

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Eleventh Ray – Reviving Tehom

May 4, 2025April 24, 2025 Vinterd

There’s always been a dark element to what black metal has been since the beginning. The two have become synonymous with each other for good reason, and it’s still well into today that we are able to bear witness to … Continue reading Eleventh Ray – Reviving Tehom

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Jesse Stilettö – s/t

March 1, 2025February 26, 2025 Vinterd

Even to just lay your eyes upon what can still be accomplished in the modern rock world is to realize that the genre is anything but dead or even close to it. There is nothing that will ever replace all … Continue reading Jesse Stilettö – s/t

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Wurmian – Immemorial Shrine

February 28, 2025February 25, 2025 Vinterd

What happens when a single musician seeks to seek new avenues when creating new music? Luckily for us, the underground has long been littered with musicians that refuse to be stuck within the same genre boundaries for too long as … Continue reading Wurmian – Immemorial Shrine

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