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black metal \ cold spring \ dark ambient \ dark noise \ industrial
RMEDL/K11: Chthonian Music
Just when you think Cold Spring couldn’t possibly release anything darker than the dark he already has, he pulls something like this out. Granted, Chthonian Music is actually a reissue of an extremely limited cut from 2010 (only 50 copies exist), but that doesn’t stop it from covering your world in darkness, and this is also in spite […]
ambient metal \ Eclectika \ Gothic metal \ metal
Eclectika: Lure of Ephemeral Beauty
Here’s a lack of consistency if there ever was one. Imagine a book put together without any paper or glue and it would be before you here. Lure of Ephemeral Beauty opens with a pretty awesome keyboard romp, kind of like the Diablo II soundtrack with more military. By the way it stomps and crushes skulls, […]
black metal \ Eisenwald \ Germ \ post-black metal \ shoegaze
Germ: Grief
We’ve argued this point countless times by now. You either go classic and do it right, which is apparently impossible for some bands, or you do something new, you do something original, something that excites and confronts. If you can’t do either, we’ll be more than happy to toss scores of 1.5 and 2.5 your […]
Ferrous Oxide \ hair metal \ metal \ thrash
Ferrous Oxide: Devil’s Plaything
Ferrous Oxide is the girl you take home to mom on the first date and marry the same night. Never before has there been such an unknown act with so much promise and skill in metal. Sometimes we call things a real crying shame, but this is more than that, it’s Victorian post-mortem black dress […]
experimental \ Indian \ Lather Records \ Middle Eastern \ psychedelic \ San Kazakgascar \ trance
San Kazakgascar: Drought Times EP
Bollywood, something we could probably get into around here, but sadly have yet to do it. Hey, blame all the music we’re constantly swarmed with, as well as the habit, for some of us at least, of playing too many old school games for no good reason. There’s only so much in this life one […]
black metal \ industrial metal \ vortech
Vortech: Devoid of Life
These guys, at the time of the writing of this review, have one of the goofiest Facebook header images ever. So goofy and poorly shooped it looks like a fan page you hope no one notices. Unfortunately, first impressions are usually 95% of the time correct, and it makes us open with phrases that lead […]
ambient \ black metal \ experimental \ Hypnotic Dirge Records \ netra \ shoegaze \ Sørbyen
Netra: Sørbyen
Why the delay in the Sparrow reviews? Are those guys a bunch of lazy punks around here or what? Get with it. In our defense, blame this album. Sørbyen is one of the strangest things we’ve ever received, and that’s saying a ton because we’re used to it weird around here. But Netra has crossed […]
built to rock \ hardcore \ kause 4 konflikt \ thrash
Kause 4 Konflikt: No Better Friend – No Worse Enemy
This one looks just plain awful on the surface. It reads like the worst of hardcore with Kottonmouth Kings and Slipknot bringing up the fore to end your life brah, and the band members even have themselves dressed like Mushroomhead or something unspeakable, as a quick internet search reveals. Suffice to say it looked like […]
fast break records \ hardcore \ no regrets \ no turning back
No Turning Back: No Regrets
Some people have been around too long. They’ve been around so long they forget how long it’s been, and they still think it’s “back then” when it’s actually “today”. No Turning Back is the definition of irony. It wants to suggest it’s been forged in the fires of the future, but it’s actually long-cold steel […]
all out war \ groove metal \ incite \ minus head records
Incite: All Out War
This one has “family matters” written all over it, not the show but the phenomenon. Like, this legitimately was written by the step-son, practically real son, of Max Cavalera, and was produced by Logan Mader, so it has every notable groove metal band ever formed all over it. And Richie, head of Incite, is seriously […]
