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doom metal \ funeral \ Goth \ Gothic \ Hypnotic Dirge Records \ Orphans of Dusk \ so blissfully depressing \ Solitude Productions
Orphans of Dusk – Revenant
Ah, Solitude Productions, what good can’t we say? Without wasting too much time, it’s enough to simply state that when you see the logo or hear the name, you know it has to do with doom metal. Hypnotic Dirge Records, hey, what can’t we say about them as well? Though not known strictly for doom, […]
Eye of Nix – Moros
See, this is what we like, people. Let’s explain something here tangentially before even getting into the review. When a band takes the time to send us something on vinyl, cassette, CD-R, floppy disc, we don’t care, we appreciate it. Why ? Because it shows the band cares about their work enough to put some money […]
Abusiveness \ Arachnophobia Records \ best pagan like ever or something \ black metal \ pagan metal \ Poland
Abusiveness – Bramy Nawii
Well this has been a week of Eastern Europe, hasn’t it? In fact, we have a backlog of tons of stuff from the region, especially Poland. Poland is an interesting bridge, as it were, between the East and the West. Though Eastern Europe was once considered part of Europe long ago, now it’s still considered […]
dark folk \ folk \ Goth \ Infinite Fog Productions \ occult \ occult rock \ post-punk \ Russia \ so Russian you'll with you were Russian \ Srub \ Сруб
Сруб (Srub) – Топь (Bog)
Here’s one that takes careful consideration, due primarily to the cultural background behind it, of which few would be aware outside of its home country. Eastern Europe often receives a great of the west’s insensitivity, primarily because so few understand anything of its history. Remember World War I? Yeah, read about Apis and learn a […]
all metal \ black metal \ Chaos Echoes \ death metal \ France \ no metal \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ this is like its own thing man
Chaos Echoes – Transient
Now it’s time to take things to the level where few can reach. The hands of most are weak, their joints feeble, they lack the inner strength to pull themselves up from the middle of the giant web of metal into realms of pure chaos. Upon these upper, silken strands things are much different, all […]
cassette \ China \ noise \ so elite you'll freak \ Torturing Nurse
Torturing Nurse – Crumble (Cassette)
Here it is folks, our first official release for Deaf Sparrow. After taking control of the site I, editor, had been debating combining my old label Mind Flare Media with the present media criticism the site’s always been known for, and this is the final step into the fuuuutttuureeee. Mind Flare Media was a small, independent […]
Accidental Guest Recordings \ Brooklyn \ Clean Girls \ noise punk \ noise rock \ punk \ smelly old real punk noise \ that's the best we had
Clean Girls – Despite You
Really can’t remember how we came across this. It’s a mystery that will likely never be solved, a blank spot in a memoir that will confuse scholars for centuries until that one, depraved individual does the right digging and pulls the corpse of the answer from out of its decaying tomb with “who the hell […]
black metal \ blasphemy supreme \ Chile \ Kratherion
Kratherion – Mantra Lucifer Flagelantes
Seems we’re on something of a black metal trend here as of late, so why not go further with it? One of the things we discussed in our last review was the issue of differentiating between classic black metal and the modern post variety. Yesterday it was the latter, today we step back to the former. […]
black metal \ Essential Purification Records \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Outre \ Poland \ post cereal \ post-black metal \ Third Eye Temple
Outre – Ghost Chants
Modern-day black metal usually has clear markers; you can look at how it presents itself and know immediately what to expect. This is especially true with post-black metal, where alterations to original themes are sometimes so unusual each band almost becomes a separate genre in itself, perhaps a separate country, or better to say planet, […]
Australia \ death metal \ factory stuff \ Giger stuff \ melodic \ Nemesium \ robot stuff \ stuff stuff \ technical
Nemesium – Sentient Cognizance
What is it with technical/melodic metal and artwork usually dense with organic, Gigeresque imagery? Swirling masses of thorn organs, smokestacks, skulls made from metal, gears, and general complexity always seems to be the norm. We suppose that makes sense considering what this type of metal is, but is it required? Must you have artwork that […]
