I’ve always been big into instrumental music because it’s just the type of thing that after a long day of work and listening to all the death metal, black metal, and other heavy as fuck shit I hear at work … Continue reading Sisters Of… – Adulescentia (single)
I remember hearing the last Tombs album and not being quite pleased with it, but now that I’ve given myself time to develop tastes for different genres I felt it was very appropriate that I check out their new material. … Continue reading Tombs – Deceiver (single)
There’s this rare oddity among metal known as atmospheric doom metal, and for me the only band that fits that description is Secrets of the Sky. Now that they’re no longer together, I’ve been meaning to find another band that … Continue reading Hemelbestormer – Aether
The idea of post metal is really a huge thought for me because I always imagine bands using so much technology and shit to create these other worldly sensations. Bands like Minsk truly transport you to those lonely corners of … Continue reading Stabbed – Submerge
There has never really been a whole lot of post metal that has blown me away in my time as a metal head with the only real post experience I can recall from this year is Minsk’s “The Crash and the Draw”. … Continue reading Wheelfall – Glasrew Point
This is the completely true and tragic story of how in 1959 a group of nine Soviets traversed into the Ural Mountains in order to reach the peak of Mt. Ortorten. In the harsh cold of -30 degrees Celsius their … Continue reading Kauan – Sorni Nai
An instrumental album is one thing. An instrumental post metal album is something else entirely. Sisters Of… have created an awesome album with their post metal that brings a whole new meaning to the word “atmospheric” with all 8 tracks having very well done riffs and sounds to them that only a post metal band could do, but Sisters Of… have taken that and increased the awesomeness ten fold and thensome! The album does start out a little slow but then the remainder of the album is great to say in the least as you are taken on a journey … Continue reading Sisters Of… – The Serpent, the Angel, and the Adversary
Post metal has always greatly interested me with its great variety of sounds and tones that can happen in just one album and even one song. “The Bleakness” from A Secret Revealed is a great post metal album in every way and the first track show how true that is because the opening track goes from metal to calm in a second. I personally thought that the vocals where trying just a little bit too hard, but overall they were good and suited the album very well along with the guitars and drums which had a great sound for the … Continue reading A Secret Revealed – The Bleakness
Typically when a popular band comes back from an lengthy hiatus there is much anticipation about the album that they’ll put out whenever they return. For lack of a better example, the best example of this in recent years is Slipknot’s “.5: The Gray Chapter”. If post/progressive metal band Minsk hasn’t made a masterpiece yet than they have with their upcoming “The Crash and the Draw” because this album is everything you could ever want and more. Right from the very beginning it has a great feel to it that’s very much like doom metal but it’s different in a … Continue reading Minsk – The Crash and the Draw
Pineal’s new EP “Smiling Cult” is (to me) a combination of Tool and some Alice in Chains (both of which are influences for the band) and then what I felt like the vocals for Black Sabbath. I’m not sure why about the Black Sabbath part but I just can’t not find those two similar no matter what I do. Anyway, “Smiling Cult” is a progressive rock/post metal album that isn’t something that I have and most likely won’t listen to every day, but it is definitely a piece that was interesting just because of all the different sounds that it … Continue reading Pineal – Smiling Cult
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