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Ardua Music \ Augusto Peixoto \ Florida \ funeral doom \ Gothic doom \ United States
Somnent – Heirloom (Symphonic Gothic Funeral Doom of Great Frisson)
I had a hefty set of promos to go through for these two current weeks, and the choices were getting tighter as I listened through the selection. Everything was quite good, but I needing things that were different, things that made their presence known in more than just power. Two doom bands in particular […]
David Kukoľ \ death thrash \ Lord Serus \ Richmond \ Shadow Kingdom Records \ thrash metal \ United States
Vigil – Primordial Rites (Parenthetical Ripping Death Thrash)
Hot damn these sickos are from my state even? Christ talk about luck! I recently had a discussion with a one-man black metal band about the importance of artwork, and if he’s listening, or in this case reading, this is what I’m talking about. As soon as you get a glimpse of the grainy, […]
Alexandros Pyromallis \ blackened death metal \ crossover \ crust punk \ deaththrash \ Exhumed \ gore metal \ grindcore \ hardcore punk \ Ink Rituals \ Molder \ Nunslaughter \ powerviolence \ raw death metal \ Redefining Darkness Records \ Satanic death metal \ Traffic Death
Exhumed / Molder / Nunslaughter / Traffic Death – Four-Way Split (Well-Balanced Chainsaw to the Head)
I feel like true underground status is earned by reviewing at least one split per year for any site that dares still claim it engages in music journalism of the darkest sections of the industry. And this one may have me covered for at least two, maybe even four if we’re being generous, because […]
Altar of Worms \ Barcelona \ Black Lion Records \ Catalonia \ death thrash \ María Panizo \ Spain
Estertor – Evil Black Church (Satanic Butt Stuff Death Thrash)
Here’s a time I wish I saved a perfect score for a future release. Guess I just have to give the same one again, because there are rarely any bands that can get away with calling out the name of track titles as a song’s chorus, but Spain’s Estertor is one few. In fact, […]
20 Buck Spin \ atmospheric death metal \ Italy \ Mariya Popyk \ melodic death metal \ raw death metal \ Technical Death Metal
Lugubrious Garment – The Wide Vale of Uncreated Night (Disconsolate Atmospheric Death Metal)
So it appears ye have found the groove ye were seeking, oh my favorite one-man deathlord? In case you didn’t know, dude here is in Cosmic Putrefaction, among other incarnations, but, personally, I’ve been focusing on Lugubrious Garment as his true calling and, you know, I believe it’s time he accepts this particular persona […]
feminist horror \ horror \ horror literature \ literature \ nun \ Nuno Moreira \ Viggy Par Hampton
The Rotting Room (Hysterical Nun Violence Horror)
An abbey on a hill filled with nuns seems the perfect place for a young woman recently involved with Satanic forces to find God again. After all, how likely is it that the Sisters of Divine Innocence are also in servitude to Satan? Viggy Parr Hampton creates a world of mystery, death, and unholy […]
blackened sludge \ Bloodbarth \ Crawling Chaos \ Germany \ Max Barth \ sludge metal
Hexer – A Black Flame in Cosmic Void (Worth Your Ear Blackened Sludge Metal)
Another end of a week, another loss of countless promos tossed into the bin because they were horrible. I like to review two to three submissions per week, but they have to pass the test to even warrant my attention. Art first, sound second. In that order. I had a ton of great covers, […]
death doom \ doom sludge \ Form Terror Growth \ Fred Grabosky \ raw death metal \ Rotted Life Records \ sludge metal \ United States \ Virginia \ Virginia Beach
Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Uliginous Death Sludge Doom)
I was really frikken pissed this week bros, swear to God. The number of promos I went through was astounding. I lost goddamn count. From the overly theatrical to the deathly average, to, even worse, the pretentious pseudo-terror punk that you know can’t back up its talk… All of it lacking, all of it […]
Caroline Vitelli \ Hummus Records \ Humus Records \ post-black metal \ post-hardcore \ post-sludge \ Switzerland
Rorcal – Mahre (Enlightenment Period Post-Black Metal Hardcore Sludge)
I actually had something else up for review today, but I deleted the entirety of it in spite of working on it for over an hour. A complete wipe, which is very fitting here for reasons I will soon explain. In the end, band remaining unnamed, it just didn’t have the depth I needed […]
Dying Victims Productions \ epic heavy metal \ heavy metal \ Max Warnby \ new wave heavy metal \ NWOBHM \ Sweden
Watcher – Mistress of Our Time (Firmamental Heavy Metal)
One genre that has greatly benefitted from modern-day production and sensibilities has been good, old-fashioned, unc heavy metal. We all know the greats, I need not name a single one, and even listening to old recordings from the late 1970s and early 1980s still feels timeless. One would think that repeating the formula long […]
