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cold spring \ dark ambient \ Schloss Tegal
Schloss Tegal: Oranur III “The Third and Final Report”
Cold Spring, the living god of dark music. Funk dat, make it the living pantheon of dark music. For all of the great material he releases, he’s also been known for re-releases, particularly of legendary underground dark ambient and industrial that both groundbreaking and genre-creating. We already reviewed Ax’s Metal Forest a few weeks ago, and […]
black metal \ Lonesummer \ post-black metal \ shoegaze \ split \ Trist
Trist/Lonesummer: Split
The curse…of the split. Splits can have this problem, if one band does reasonably well but the other is less so it can be a disaster. And no one wants to be that band, the placeholder, there primarily so the definition of ‘split’ isn’t violated. Is this opener obvious enough? Do you get it? Not yet, […]
Lost Horizon \ power metal \ The End Records
Double Header – Featuring Lost Horizon
It’s a two-for-one today at Deaf Sparrow, with this new feature of ours. Actually, it’s a convenient, simple way for us to be lazy while pretending to be productive, because we can fit essentially two reviews into one article, and it will probably never happen again. In our defense past our own admission of guilt, […]
Black Hate \ black metal \ bleak \ depressive \ dusktone
Black Hate: Los Tres Mundos
There are certain countries associated frequently with black metal, so frequently we don’t even need to mention them, or it, because there’s really only a single one that immediately comes to mind. Mexico? Probably one of the last places you’d expect to find a quality black metal band. Not to say there aren’t any, but […]
black metal \ folk metal \ industrial \ pagan metal \ Svarga Music \ Thunderkraft
Thunderkraft: Totentanz
Uh oh, yep, that’s right, that’s a panzer on the cover. And you know what that usually means, it’s not bringing an ounce of power, if anything it’s an Italian WWII tank you can take out by shoving a broom handle in its wheels. Tank, generally, equals horrible when it comes to any style of […]
Blessed Curse \ M-Theory Audio \ thrash metal
Blessed Curse: S/T
Holy fork. Just when you thought this whole retro thrash revival thing was getting old, just when you thought it was about time to hang up the jeans jacket laden with patches, something gives you the urge to put it back on or make one that you never had. Something makes you grow your hair […]
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 […]
