A new name is always something that should be looked forward to for the simple sake of truly anything being possible. Sometimes, we’re given names that remain perfectly within the confines of a genre and display a solid understanding of … Continue reading Ritual Arcana – s/t
Certainly, art imitates life. Constantly do we find ourselves before brand new creations that are pulling from all sorts of fonts of inspiration that can be traced back to a moment in time whether it has a political, emotional, or … Continue reading Year of the Goat – Trivia Goddess
It’s been a hot minute since we’ve seen the rising of a band that immediately exudes an air of certifiable success and talent undeniable from the very line-up alone. Such things can be incredibly tricky, though, since we never really … Continue reading Suspiriorum – s/t
More often than not when we find that some material has Satanic themes or is even just flat out occult, it falls under the more extreme ends of metal versus that of rock much less very intoxicating rock at that. … Continue reading Year of the Goat – Novis Orbis Terrarum Ordinis
The sixties were fucking weird, man. Sure, I wasn’t alive to recount the first-hand experience but I feel like it’s pretty unanimous to say that decade had more than its fair share of oddities that’s enough to make for one … Continue reading Jess and the Ancient Ones – The Horse and Other Weird Tales
It was at the tail end of last year that the world was introduced to the stylistically unique approach that Akasava took to with their music. It was extremely interesting and showed plenty of promise, but needed work. With pleasure, … Continue reading Akasava – Nothing at Dawn
There are so many different hybrid genres out there in the world of metal alone that it’s nigh impossible to keep up with each and every one of them. New ones are made up every single day with another album … Continue reading Akasava – Strange Aeons
Ever since hearing Year of the Goat’s “The Unspeakable”, occult rock has been the genre that has intrigued me the most so far this year. So what better band to follow up on that than none other than Ghost? I couldn’t come with an answer so I checked out their newest album, “Meliora”, and holy fucking shit is it good! Straight from the very beginning track this album already earns my thumbs way up into the air. The smooth, upbeat sound of the vocals are only enhanced when Papa Emeritus III comes in with his dark lyrics that you have … Continue reading Ghost – Meliora
I remember the first thing that I thought when seeing the band name was “Satan! Satan! Satan!”, then upon seeing the cover it was more of “…Satan?…”, and after hearing a few tracks it became that I couldn’t detect any sign of Satan as far as I could tell with Year of the Goat’s upcoming album “The Unspeakable”. This was a surprising album because I expected it to be a heavy record with vocals that I couldn’t begin to understand, but this album takes more of a rock sound to it with the guitars having an awesome groove to them … Continue reading Year of the Goat – The Unspeakable
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