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Evil Nöise Records \ heavy speed metal \ Jawbreaker Records \ Julian Mortuus \ Mexico
StarForce – Beyond the Eternal Night (Cosmically Inclined Heavy Speed Metal)
I was all over the Eurotrash art style for the cover of this. What is this shit, some Soviet-era sci-fi poster flair? Just beautiful. It’s a wonderfully chaotic scene. Are the ships supposed to be flying towards her? The perspective makes that impossible, so who knows and goddamn it, I love it. We’ve got […]
esoteric black metal \ experimental black metal \ gnostic black metal \ Luciana Nedelea \ Luciana Nedelea Artworks \ Pennsylvania \ Transcending Obscurity \ United States
Veilburner – Longing for Triumph, Reeking of Tragedy (Gnostic Nihilistic Experimental Black Metal)
You think that everything’s been done until you come across an act like Pennsylvania’s Veilburner and realize the space left to create new forms in any genre is actually infinite. People forget, though set patterns exist and keep us safe at night so we can latch on to our dwindling mortality, we need variation […]
dusktone \ symphonic black metal \ The Netherlands \ verbose black metal
The Gloomy Radiance of the Moon – As the Stars Shatter in Agony (Verbose Symphonic Black Metal)
Is verbosity the new aesthetic for black metal? Well, for the symphonic type at least, and in this case I feel it’s a requirement because that subgenre, in particular, brings with it grandiosity that demands an audience in a bedecked theater. I seem to recall hearing delicate whispers in the digital winds about The […]
krautcore \ krautsludge \ London \ Marco Imov \ post-hardcore \ post-hardcore punk \ post-punk \ post-sludge \ sludge punk \ United Kingdom
Predeceased – Weirdo Riffers (Post-Punk Krautsludge)
Damn I had no way of figuring out a special genre for this one, so take what I put up there and love it. Further, here’s that old conundrum of mine. I don’t like reviewing stuff that’s already been released, but we have a special case here so hear me out. Predeceased have a […]
Alexander Shadrin \ death doom \ Morkh \ Nether Temple Design \ Transcending Obscurity \ United States
Dwelling Below – Wearisome Guardians (Dimensional Death Doom)
Dwelling Below, a heretofore criminally ignored death doom act from the United States, have carved a space for themselves in a genre known primarily for crushing atmosphere, but yet which can often lead to plodding that wearies the listener to the point of disgust. Thus perhaps calling this one Wearisome Guardians was a bad […]
anti-Christian death metal \ Austrlia \ blackened death metal \ Chris Moyen \ evil death metal \ Hells Headbangers \ Satanic death metal
Abominator – The Fire Brethren (Anti-Christian Evil Metal)
I feel like a lot of reviewers are going to refer to this as a “relentless assault on the senses,” or some regurgitated nonsense of similar form. Stop with the platitudes, please. I’ll admit, that’s difficult when you’re dealing with a blackened death metal band that’s been doing their thing for over thirty years. […]
Acromatopsia \ atavistic death metal \ Avo \ Gabriele Gramaglia \ Italy \ Milan \ primal death metal \ primitive death metal \ war metal
Lugubrious Garment – Demo MMXXV (Atavistic Death Metal)
I’m so proud of myself that I got to use the word ‘lugubrious’ finally. I actually didn’t even know it was a word until this gem oozed itself up to the surface of the promo swamp. A side project of the dejected Italian insanity machine Cosmic Putrefaction (Gabriele Gramaglia), Lugubrious Garment was conceived as […]
blackened death metal \ Daniel Hermosilla \ Kansas \ Memento Mori \ Nox Fragor Artworks \ United States
Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns (Pestilential Death Metal)
I don’t believe I had heard of Thaumaturgy before this one, so one can assume they were something of a whisper in the community, which at this point returns as a virulent plague. Their latest here, Pestilential Hymns, is a masterful, one-man (now apparently three) descent into a suffocating miasma of blackened death metal. […]
dark industrial \ darkwave \ death industrial \ Fallow Field \ Hedonic Reversal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Spain
NOIR NOIR – Black Curtain / Divine Swelling (Deathwave)
I tend to avoid releases like this, but I so rarely receive anything of the industrial or out of the various wave genres that I need to be less picky. Not picky about the music, because this kills, but about the details. In this case, to begin, the work is incredible, my only hesitation […]
