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Cursed Monk Records \ dark ambient \ dark folk \ drone \ Galway \ Grey Malkin \ haunted folk \ Ireland \ Ruairi O’Baoighill \ Scotland \ Waterford
ÚATH – S/T (Atmospheric Haunted Folk Drone)
Haven’t gotten a release like this in awhile. Actually, let’s change that to “a good release.” Folk of the dark variety can be an easy sell, at times, but it’s deceptive. Too folk and it lends itself a childish, “spooky” atmosphere that sounds more like background music during a Ravenloft sesh with only the […]
Ellie Promotion \ epic power metal \ France \ Île-de-France \ Mickey Mythrid \ Paris
Asylum Pyre – Call Me Inhuman (Holy Trinity Power Metal for Those Who LARP)
Damn it if I don’t like this. Most power metal submissions I receive, well make that probably 99% of them, are passed upon. I can recall maybe 3 or 4 bands tops of this style that we’ve covered over the past decade. No joke. The power metal crowd can yell all it wants, you’re […]
brackish death metal \ Helsingborg \ Necromaniac \ Skåne \ Swedeath \ Sweden \ Swedish death metal \ Thomas Westphal
Bastard Grave – Vortex of Disgust (Brackish Swedish Death Metal)
This is the kind of album I’m going to refer to from now on as a “sinker.” It needed to sink on in there before I liked it, because to be honest, at first, it sounded like a million other promos I get every week. Okay so it’s only about 500, but still. That’s […]
barbaric blackened death metal \ Berkati Cakra \ Hells Headbangers \ Ohio \ United States
Genocidal Rites – Exsanguination of the Gods (Barbaric Blackened Death Metal)
Any time you see art by Berkati Cakra, you know you’re in for a slammer. And this may be one of the most over-the-top images I’ve seen him craft. Here’s it fits the music so well it might be his best, and trust you me he’s done a lot of blasphemous necroworship. Just look […]
Amor Fati Productions \ blackened death metal \ blackened folk \ blackened folk metal \ Carl Olof Petersen \ Dublin \ Ireland
Verminous Serpent – The Malign Covenant (Blackened Death Folk)
Uh oh, tis a collab folks. Well this review started out bad, but this particular collab starts, and also ends, well. Consisting of various members of the Irish koovault wvndergrovnd, Verminous Serpent is new to death metal theatre with this first full-length. Whether or not it continues beyond The Malign Convenant is not a […]
Chile \ Francisco Ramírez \ Los Lagos \ Morkt Artist \ Puerto Montt \ spasmodic death metal
Sepulcrum – Lamentation of Immolated Souls (Spasmodic Death Metal)
You know, I was just talking to someone the other day about how Chilean metal has been blasting away for at least a decade now and keeps getting better! Seriously type in ‘Chile’ in the search bar on this site, hit that Enter button, and look at how much goodness we’ve covered over the […]
cacophonic death metal \ Canada \ Fernando Giotefeli \ Giotefeli Anti Arte \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Rotted Life
Décryptal – Sabazios Culte (Cacophonic Death Metal)
Well these guys are certainly a spooky mystery. I have no clue where they came from but with the amount of cacophony they wretch I should! I know they’re form Canada, but figuratively speaking with the type of eerie, dragging death metal these guys play it’s only from the ground they could have possibly […]
Costa Rica \ Jason Barnett \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Pulverised Records \ San José \ Seed of Doom
Astriferous – Pulsations from the Black Orb (Existential Death Metal)
It’s a sad day when I realize that this is only the second band from Costa Rica I’ve ever reviewed. Why sad? I just think it is, okay? Isn’t that enough? So Astriferous can be proud they’ve achieved the honor of second band from their home country on this very site. I mean that […]
André Trindade \ CVSPE \ funeral doom \ funeral sludge \ Lower Silesia \ Poland \ sludge metal \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ Wrocław
71TONMAN – Of End Times (Absolute Funeral Sludge)
In spite of having one of the absolute worst band names I’ve ever heard of (seriously, come on guys wtf), 71TONMAN absolutely destroy, even though they bring it slow. Of End Times is my first exposure to their work, and, combining the drag of funeral doom combined with the edgier push of sludge, they […]
20 Buck Spin \ Alexandria \ California \ Ian Miller \ Oakland \ Oregon \ Portland \ United States \ Virginia
Ulthar – Anthronomicon (Abomination Metal)
Ulthar can do no wrong at this point, pretty sure about that. When we last encountered them I was thrilled by the music, but disgusted at the thematics, which were, ugh, Lovecraft BS; a theme far too many metal bands have milked dry until only blood remains, and you don’t even want any of […]
