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Raumordnung – Stewards of Eon

December 12, 2025December 6, 2025 Vinterd

The artistic vision is something that we love to talk about in the dense underground of what metal music can still become when the right circumstances are met, but what about when we’re met with such talent and ambition that … Continue reading Raumordnung – Stewards of Eon

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Arrows – Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns

October 12, 2025October 7, 2025 Vinterd

Whereas many look to the largely unexplored reaches of the underground to find new talent delivering fresh experiences, it can oftentimes be from the well-known founts of quality that we can keep returning to in the search of finding something … Continue reading Arrows – Yearning Arrows; Cloven Suns

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Gosudar / Tsygun – split

July 28, 2025July 18, 2025 Vinterd

Experimentation is an integral part of what has always made the underground an unpredictable beast, but there just aren’t many that are willing to shed their tendencies and truly become lost in the darkness of uncertainty to reach for something … Continue reading Gosudar / Tsygun – split

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Aabode – Neo-Age

November 10, 2024October 11, 2025 Vinterd

An evolving band is not one that sits still for long. Much like names along the lines of Veilburner, it’s through constantly honing your track and trying new things, even if they’re only subtle, that you can reach new territory … Continue reading Aabode – Neo-Age

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Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God

June 23, 2024June 19, 2024 Vinterd

When you ask the modern dweller in the underground what happens when death metal is taken to its extremes, there are a few names that surely come to mind. In terms of the experimental and downright disturbing, Ulcerate should absolutely … Continue reading Ulcerate – Cutting the Throat of God

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Diskord / Atvm – Bipolarities

May 13, 2024May 7, 2024 Vinterd

Well and truly, there are more than enough corners of death metal that need to be explored even as we find ourselves in an age of unfettered progressiveness that has seen the genre taken to new heights and lengths heretofore … Continue reading Diskord / Atvm – Bipolarities

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Malconfort – Humanism

May 6, 2024May 4, 2024 Vinterd

Already, there are plenty of styles out there in the vast spectrum of metal music that are designed to be immensely uncomfortable at times. It’s when things become experimental that we begin to dive into a truly demented and sometimes … Continue reading Malconfort – Humanism

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Job for a Cowboy – Moon Healer

February 2, 2024January 24, 2024 Vinterd

Without so much as a doubt, Job for a Cowboy has to be hailed as one of the most influential bands of our time especially when it comes to much of the new talent that has been coming out of … Continue reading Job for a Cowboy – Moon Healer

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Myælin – Naesekhnaetri

December 7, 2023December 2, 2023 Vinterd

Structure and consistency is something that we all crave for in one form or another with music absolutely being a big piece of our lives that almost always benefits from a rigid structure. In certain reaches of what music has … Continue reading Myælin – Naesekhnaetri

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Plague Rider – Intensities

September 10, 2023September 14, 2023 Vinterd

To find your sound in the depths of experimentalism no matter how slight it might be is to find yourself in truly unpredictable waters. That’s the very nature of what it means to be experimental, and we live in an … Continue reading Plague Rider – Intensities

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