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Buzzard – Everything is Not Going to be Alright

October 16, 2025September 17, 2025 Vinterd

There are some acts that you just can’t keep down for long. It’s the normal expectations that it takes at least a year or two for a band to come back around with new material, but it’s every now and … Continue reading Buzzard – Everything is Not Going to be Alright

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Manos Six and the Muddy Devil – When Skies are Grey

June 17, 2025June 11, 2025 Vinterd

It’s in the fringes and adjacent realms of metal that sometimes to most interesting acts can be found even if they can remain quite amorphous, hard to pin down, or even just outright weird by all intents and purposes. There’s … Continue reading Manos Six and the Muddy Devil – When Skies are Grey

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Buzzard – Mean Bone

April 25, 2025April 12, 2025 Vinterd

After hearing so much of what the underground has to offer, it cannot be overstated how much a little bit of a different approach can make for a truly wild difference. We’ve seen all sorts of innovation thrusted into existence … Continue reading Buzzard – Mean Bone

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Lord Buffalo – Holus Bolus

June 19, 2024June 12, 2024 Vinterd

When you find yourself sifting through the digital annals of what modern music has to offer, it’s only natural that at some point you find a creation that well and truly catches you off-guard sooner or later for what it … Continue reading Lord Buffalo – Holus Bolus

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Mountain Shadow – s/t

April 11, 2024April 4, 2024 Vinterd

Where the boundaries of wild and wonderful begin to blur oftentimes do daring and dangerous come into the fold. That can apply to many things with metal music certainly being one of them as we delve through the depths of … Continue reading Mountain Shadow – s/t

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Lotus Thief / Forelesen – split

January 21, 2024January 10, 2024 Vinterd

We are all familiar with the concept of a split album with some of the more unexpectedly interesting experiences in the underground coming from them, but there’s always more to them than what would normally meet the eye. When splits … Continue reading Lotus Thief / Forelesen – split

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Albion – Lakesongs of Elbid

December 31, 2023December 21, 2023 Vinterd

For years now, folk metal has been one of my favorite sounds in the entire spectrum of metal even though I find myself almost infuriatingly picky with it in many instances. If you’re going to put yourself in a sound … Continue reading Albion – Lakesongs of Elbid

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Panopticon – The Rime of Memory

December 6, 2023December 2, 2023 Vinterd

Of all the acts and magnificence that have come about since the turn of the century in the world of black metal, it can’t be said there’s a shortage of quality or intensity in any given sound with many modern … Continue reading Panopticon – The Rime of Memory

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Iskandr – Spiritus Sylvestris

September 2, 2023August 23, 2023 Vinterd

I have had my fair share of witnessing bands of many different creeds and genres pivot their sound to something that is certifiably different be it from the likes of Opeth or recently Horrendous, but there are cases when we … Continue reading Iskandr – Spiritus Sylvestris

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Interview with Manos Six and the Muddy Devil

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Vinterd

Whenever I think about the wide range of music that I’ve ever found myself listening to, it has only ever been in two circumstances where I ever could’ve dared where the worlds of black metal and Americana could coexist in … Continue reading Interview with Manos Six and the Muddy Devil

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