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Broken Limbs Recordings \ but I guess we have to say metal of some sort \ Chicago \ genreless beasts \ Immortal Bird
Immortal Bird – Empress/Abscess
Did you ever read a review and smile at all of the praise, only to get to the score and wonder what in the hell happened in the meantime? This actually occurred when this album here was on repeat at the homestead over the past few days. We enjoy, sometimes, checking out what others have […]
experimental \ Ferrrum \ Hell:On \ progressive metal \ thrash metal \ Ukraine
Hell:On – Once Upon a Chaos…
Experimentation is occasionally a path of ruin, irrespective of history and skill, a choice often made for the wrong reasons, or even when made for the right reasons it leads to abject failure. It’s a dangerous path, fraught with danger, covered in brambles leading up to steep cliffs where a single foothold means either progression […]
Big Love Records \ black metal \ death metal \ Denmark \ Escho \ Invictus Productions \ Reverie \ shoegaze
Reverie – Bliss
Sometimes you have to wonder who selects the genre tags on Encyclopaedia Metallum. Is it the bands themselves or some random fools? Seriously, we’d like to know, because we’ve never had to do such a thing ourselves, so not knowing we’d like an explanation. The primary reason is it often seems so very wrong upon […]
best Goth \ Goth \ Italy \ neo-Goth \ Seventh Crow Records \ The Last Hour \ The Three Heads of Cerberus \ The White Room
THE THREE HEADS OF CERBERUS – The Last Hour
Well that’s kind of a cool title for a little special feature, isn’t it? We previously referred to this as “Triple Header” the last time we did it, which was way before this new version of the site launched. Since then we’ve only done our “Double Header” feature a few times, but not the triple. […]
black metal \ death metal \ esoteric or so they think metal \ Halloween soundtrack of doom \ Howls of Ebb \ I Voidhanger Records
Howls of Ebb – The Marrow Veil
It’s quite likely, if you’re reading this or have been here before, that you’re a weirdo. That’s how people usually end up at Deaf Sparrow, or at least checking out the things we cover, whether or not they pay attention to us in particular. The underground is filled with total weirdos, people on the outskirts […]
agonia records \ black metal \ Blaze of Perdition \ death come coping \ esoteric \ Poland
Blaze of Perdition – Near Death Revelations
It’s always tragic when a band has to experience death, not simply screaming about it or symbolizing it via music. When real death hits anyone, how to cope? Finding life in those ashes can be difficult for most, nearly impossible for others, if possible at all. For music it can be a total tragedy. Certain […]
collaboration \ experimental \ free jazz \ Japan \ Many Arms \ noise \ onkyo \ Philadelphia \ power electronics \ public eyesore \ punk \ Toshimaru Nakamura
Many Arms & Toshimaru Nakamura – S/T
It’s sadly been awhile since we’ve reviewed something from the highly underappreciated Public Eyesore, or as we like to lovingly call them “The Pub”, “The Eye”, or “The Sore”. The guy has an obsession, or perhaps a fetish, or perhaps a dedication if we’re speaking lovingly, of experimental music in its essence. Free jazz, power electronics […]
Aeternitas Tenebrarum Music Foundation \ ATMF \ black metal \ black metal qua black metal as you expect \ France \ Nyseius
Nyseius – De Divinatione Daemonum
You know what good black metal has and often lacks? Atmosphere. Every year this guy right here (editor) pulls out Transilvanian [sic] Hunger not for the vocals, not for the incessant drumming, but for those guitars. They flow like brittle snow around cold rocks in a chasm, and it just makes this time of year […]
Canada \ Chile \ Demona \ speed metal \ the best thrash or speed metal you're ever going to hear \ the only deal \ the pure deal \ the real deal \ thrash metal
Demona – 2015 EP
There’s a lot of crossover in speed and thrash metal, and really it’s always been that way. Sometimes there’s a blurring of lines, but thankfully it’s permissible, and never has been confusing. This is because both genres feed into and off of each other quite well. Now, we’ve received a lot of thrash over the […]
black metal \ Crest of Darkness \ Grimface Distro \ My Kingdom Music \ Norway \ obscurity to the max \ seriously this is so obscure it makes no sense
Crest of Darkness – Evil Messiah
First glancing at this cover, you’ll probably giggle. It sends out black metal signals like the lone captain of a sinking dinghy shooting up flares. “Look at me, help me, I am here!” he screams into the black night, surrounded by nothing but a sea so vast the chances of anyone seeing his desperation is […]
