Metal fans are no strangers to fantasy nor are they new to the concept of bringing the two together. For decades now, fantastical metal has made up a very large part of the underground’s themes with nothing off the table … Continue reading Bog Wizard – Journey Through the Dying Lands
It’s all too obvious of a claim that every style has legions of rising names that are all worthy of attention with there always being far more in the underground than those that rise to the surface on a wide … Continue reading Shattered Hope – Memoir
While we’ve been finding ourselves in the midst of a surge when it comes to overwhelming heaviness on an almost oppressive scale, there’s always more than enough room for a contrasting sound to come into play and show us what … Continue reading Soma Plume – In the Black Water
All things considered, the desert is given quite a bit of credit across the undergrounds of both rock and metal music for all the right reasons. Whether we’re dealing in the more psychedelic reaches with desert rock, in particular, or … Continue reading Legends of the Desert: Volume 4 – Eagle Twin & The Otolith
Where the very boundaries of genre lines blur, greatness can oftentimes be found. Or, at least, the prospect of greatness. Bringing together different worlds doesn’t automatically make for a transcendent listen by any means whatsoever with it still requiring loads … Continue reading Meltem – Mare Nostrum
While it can sometimes feel as though there isn’t enough going on within the world of funeral doom metal, it’s quite fitting that such a bleak sound where the light of hope typically goes to die is sparsely populated with … Continue reading Föhn – Condescending
Given the year that we’ve been having, everyone should be well aware of the time that all things related to psychedelia have been having ever since 2024 got rolling. It has been a wild ride that I’ve been more than … Continue reading Elephant Tree / Lowrider – The Long Forever
For all that heaviness can bring to the table, it has been made clear many times over that the more psychedelic reaches of the concept has found itself in quite the year with a true menagerie of names coming around … Continue reading Blue Heron – Everything Fades
Normally, when people think of the union between doom and sludge they think of an overwhelming beast of heaviness and intensity with a lumbering presence that only strikes when the moment is right when darkness is at its most complete … Continue reading Amarok – Resilience
Heaviness needs no introduction in the current landscape that the underground finds itself in today with the mere concept of intensity coming in all shapes and sizes from all corners of the map to show us what it can still … Continue reading Shipyard – Swing Bridge
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