Oftentimes, the best thing one can do is simply stay the course. After all, if something isn’t broke, why try to fix it? It’s a concept that many throughout the underground struggle to come to terms with for one reason … Continue reading Ocultum – Buena Muerte
Long has there been a relationship between extreme metal music and mental illness with the results of such a relationship still able to be witnessed even to today. It’s the sort of intertwined destiny that has always allowed the tormented … Continue reading Sleep Paralysis – s/t
Not often enough do we see a band really embrace the phase that they find themselves in as they travel from one release to another. It’s only every now and then that we see such acts come about and give … Continue reading Sunrot – Passages
Every so often, we’re given an album that knows not how to stay within the confines of reality as we know. It’s in the more experimental reaches of the sound that such sights become more commonplace even if they are … Continue reading Venomous Echoes – Dysmor
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that Lovecraft has long had a hand in metal music even if his influence hasn’t been as great as someone like Tolkien. The sheer potential that one can have just by implementing some … Continue reading The Great Old Ones – Kadath
Truly, there is nothing that can ever quite compare to singular death metal that knows precisely what it wants to be from the very first step taken. A vision of what depravity of the flesh and spirit can be in … Continue reading Toughness – Black Respite of Oblivion
Undeniably, there are those that remain to stay silent for too long. Whether it be those who simply have a lot to say or those that cannot turn the voices off lest they find themselves going down a dark path … Continue reading Sivyj Yar – A Scarlet Sunset Over the Horrid Abyss
It’s no secret anymore that there are certain players throughout the vast underground that never seem to sit in one place for too long. Bastions of creativity and tenacity can make even the most dogmatic of musicians reach for horizons … Continue reading Ruinous Power – Extreme Danger: Prototype Weaponry
The realms of black metal and dungeon synth have long ben intertwined for a number of different reasons, and it’s not often enough that we find ourselves before an effort that actually manages to properly incorporate both into a … Continue reading Aranoë – s/t
While it’s from the realm of doom that metal is often given a fantastic name, it’s when we take things a step further and venture into the realm of drone that we bear witness to sights that metal seldom witness … Continue reading Orme – No Serpents, No Saviours
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