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Uranium – Pure Nuclear Death (Black Industrial)
Now here’s a damn fine contrast to the review I just posted. From gloom pop to this. So first I lament the fact I don’t get enough gloom and dark pop, and here we are with something else I don’t get a lot of, or at least usually not good, black and/or dark industrial. […]
dream pop \ gloom pop \ Goth \ Seattle \ United States \ Washington
MØAA – Jaywalker (Gloomy Dream Pop)
Been awhile since I got a sweet taste of something like this. Occasionally some gloom comes in, but it’s trite and ineffective. It doesn’t make me languid, it makes me mad, kid. Lol, sad, a pathetic intro… Anyway I don’t even remember how I happened upon the latest from MØAA but I did, and […]
ambient folk \ dark ambient \ dark ambient folk \ dark folk \ dark ritual folk \ Nordvis Produktion \ ritual folk \ Sweden
Forndom – Alster (Haunting Dark Ritual Folk)
Yeah I get these ambient submissions sometimes and it always reminds me how difficult it is it to make a lasting impression or be effective in the genre. It’s far beyond that in difficulty if you’re remaking tracks within the genre that were released in a previously different form. This is exactly what Sweden’s […]
blackened thrash metal \ Chaos Records \ melodic death metal \ Raúl González \ Sweden \ Uppsala
Third Storm – The Locust Mantra (Blackened Melodic Thrash Death Metal Woah)
Here’s another interesting one from Sweden. I saw a bit of semi-hate concerning The Locust Mantra out there, mainly that it doesn’t “stand out,” but I’ve said it before is that always necessary? Plus, Third Storm are also much older than you’d expect so perhaps think a bit, listen harder, and see what comes […]
blackened hardcore \ blackened punk \ death punk \ Logan Nuebauten \ Matt Plunkett \ New Jersey \ raw death punk \ Rio Oka \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States \ Washington DC
Kontusion – S/T (Raw and Mutilated Death Punk)
Whelp, I died. Another Sentient Ruin smacker. I pretty much guessed that, though, without even scoping the label. Xeroxed cover from a rotted-on-the-insides dumpster nuclear fire? Yep, musical summary right there folks, another example of my “see that cover, this sounds like that” intro. Even better, though, is how the overlapping of lines makes […]
Chile \ Los Ríos \ progressive black metal \ progressive speed metal \ Trueno de Hera \ Valdivia \ විරූපි Propaganda
Solipnosis – Síntesis Silenciosa (Reality-Altering Progressive Blackened Speed Metal)
Dang Chile can you calm the fuck down? Christ you’re killing me here with all this awesome stuff! I’m just going to review stuff from Chile now, sorry everyone, this is a 100% Chilean underground site starting today. Well, of course not, but it could be if I keep getting promos like the latest […]
Goregeous Productions \ M. Rafi Fathurrohman \ Malmö \ Murfack \ Swedeath \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal
Intéremo – Buried in Rotten Remains (Crunchy South American Swedeath What?)
This one surprised me for one detail. I swore to God and all previous pagan deities and whatever else that this absolutely had to be from somewhere in South America. Chile, I thought. But, nope, actually Sweden! Talk about incorrect! Anyway, this presents a conundrum and something unexpected at the same time. Swedish death […]
doom pop \ Exile on Mainstream Records \ Germany \ Hamburg \ Sarah Breen \ sludge doom pop \ sludge pop
The Moth – Frost (Sludge Doom Pop)
What’s with all this tastiness I’ve been receiving recently? Went through a big glut of metal for awhile and suddenly I’ve been seeing stuff from genres outside of the usual darkness. Sludge doom pop? Yeah, I’ll take that, I need that. Gawsh. I’ve sampled their work before, but their latest, Frost, is a dip […]
Berlin \ Germany \ post-punk \ Rapid Eye Records \ Svart Records \ Victor Puigcerver
Maggot Heart – Hunger (Primal Prophetic Post-Punk)
I’ve seen a lot of bands defined as “defying categorization,” a bit ironic, yes, but usually also more than a bit wrong. Oftentimes such phraseology is used as an attempt to sell something from the musical bargain bin. That wretched state of existence where everything you never heard of dwells and attempts to scream […]
blackened crossover \ blackened sludge \ North Carolina \ Raleigh \ southern sludge \ United States
Noctomb S/T (Wait There’s More, Southern Blackened Sludge)
Hmm. Well. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a band as versatile as this in any genre. I also like that these guys are from Raleigh, NC, because the scene there has always been this weird mid-level thing for the underground. Not unusual, since it is a college domain, and the expected indie market […]
