The world of death and doom metal has always been one that’s a weird gray area for me simply because far too many bands don’t know how to properly balance it all out. Then throwing in a strong element of … Continue reading Hinayana – Order Divine
A band that has been around for decades are the kind that many people cling to given how those bands understandably almost always have a taste of classic material within their sound given that’s when they started things off as a … Continue reading The Crown – Cobra Speed Venom
The life of a viking as we know it in the world of metal is more than any one style can encompass properly most of the time. Sure, bands like Amon Amarth have managed to confine vikings to a single … Continue reading Battlesoul – Sunward and Starward
There are few things in this world that catch my attention more than a solid Tolkien reference. Oh yeah, you can easily make some casual reference to the movies and call it a deep cut, but black metal tends to … Continue reading Ancalagon – Gateway Specter
In this day and age, it is simply impossible for any new band to not have been influenced to the very core by the seemingly infinite number of bands that have come before. But being able to be influenced heavily … Continue reading Earthbound – Endure
I started these reviews in order to expand my taste in metal and do something creative and productive through that. Recently, I’ve noticed that I haven’t really been revisiting one of the key genres that helped me get into metal: … Continue reading The Unguided – And the Battle Royale
The world is a big place. It’s very easy for a talented band to go almost virtually unnoticed by the majority whenever they put out material. That goes double for underground metal bands, and even more so for those who … Continue reading Black Kirin – Nanking Massacre
Inconcessus Lux Lucis is one of those bands that I heard during the first months of me doing reviews where I really didn’t have a fucking clue at what I was doing. I’ve made it a personal goal of mine … Continue reading Inconcessus Lux Lucis – The Crowning Quietus
For the longest time ever since I’ve really gotten into investigating the world of metal music, the idea of a band coming together and creating songs longer than twenty minutes is absolutely astounding to me. It shows off so many … Continue reading Moonscape – Entity
In recent times, I haven’t really found any melodic death metal that’s really caught my fancy except a few exceptions that really stand out amongst the rest. It just seems to me that many melo-death bands are becoming too uniform … Continue reading Dawn of Disease – Ascension Gate
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