It probably goes without saying that there’s loads of debauchery, blasphemy, and all other sorts of nastiness that goes on throughout the varies sounds that thrive on the very floor of the metal underworld. We’ve been subjected to loads of … Continue reading Barbaric Horde / Goatsmegma – Impurity Manifesto
A cold and calculated performance is one of the many things that extreme metal has excelled at over the years with all sorts of different iterations on the concept being done by bands seeking to further all that the underground … Continue reading Moon of the Wind / No Point in Living – Child:of:Illness
Experimentation is an integral part of what has always made the underground an unpredictable beast, but there just aren’t many that are willing to shed their tendencies and truly become lost in the darkness of uncertainty to reach for something … Continue reading Gosudar / Tsygun – split
It is one thing to be loud. It’s something else altogether to make your volume representative of something. Be it rage, catharsis, passion, or something in between, if you can make your volume mean something then it takes on a … Continue reading Yatsu / Wanderer – split
All things considered, the desert is given quite a bit of credit across the undergrounds of both rock and metal music for all the right reasons. Whether we’re dealing in the more psychedelic reaches with desert rock, in particular, or … Continue reading Legends of the Desert: Volume 4 – Eagle Twin & The Otolith
Given the year that we’ve been having, everyone should be well aware of the time that all things related to psychedelia have been having ever since 2024 got rolling. It has been a wild ride that I’ve been more than … Continue reading Elephant Tree / Lowrider – The Long Forever
Well and truly, there are more than enough corners of death metal that need to be explored even as we find ourselves in an age of unfettered progressiveness that has seen the genre taken to new heights and lengths heretofore … Continue reading Diskord / Atvm – Bipolarities
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
On occasion when we see a split album come into being, it can be all too easy that the bands in question put forth material that are little more than B-sides or rarity tracks for the acts to bring out … Continue reading Ommnus / My Pitbull Lucifer – split
Given the extremities which the many different styles of metal tend to inhabit, it’s not uncommon to see bands from the outer reaches come together in a demented union to show us what happens when their powers are combined with … Continue reading Dominion of Suffering / Phobonoid – split
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