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Invictus Productions \ Kristian Valbo \ Norway \ RK Valbo \ Rolf Kristian Valbo
Abhorration – Demonolatry (Decrepitly Genuinely Evil Blackened Death Metal)
Hahahah, ah haahahaha, AH HAHAAHAHAH. This murders. I kind of figured it would. Satanic beast on cover? Doesn’t look typical, does it? There’s this decreptitude to its look, like it’s tired, but still willing to torment and destroy. See, it looks typical, until you grasp that those empty eyes are digging deep into your […]
Gilded Panoply \ Greece \ philosophical black metal \ True Cult Records
Auriferous Flame – The Insurrectionists and the Caretakers (Philosophically Inclined Black Metal)
Boy Greece’s Auriferous Flame doesn’t let up. They’ve been dishing out full-lengths regularly over the past two years, three in total, and not including an early EP. I received a promo from them a year ago exactly, Ardor for Black Mastery, but passed on it because the art lacked that spice I look for, […]
avant-garde black metal \ avant-garde metal \ Héctor Pineda \ post-black metal \ Prosthetic Records \ Switzerland
Schammasch – The Maldoror Chants: Old Ocean (Avant-Garde Poetic Post-Black Metal)
Is that enough of a mouthful for you and pretentious AF? Well, avant-garde poetic post-black metal is about all I got for this one, from a band that knows how to be visually stunning! Ever-mysterious, and Swiss, Schammasch are one of those rare combinations of genres that gets it right in every way possible. […]
Bad Omen \ Canada \ coldwave \ Goth \ Goth rock \ gothwave \ Noodles \ post-goth \ post-punk \ Ryan Kostel \ shoegaze
Pøltergeist – Nachtmusik (Coldly Nouveau Gothwave)
Took me awhile to want to review this one, and apologies to the band because they’re great lol. One of my problems, as of late, has been looking for too much newness in what I get. I still stand by good art making an album worth a listen, that will never change, but does […]
Antiq Records \ atmospheric black metal \ France \ Lilas Dupont \ Ondine
Silhouette – Les Dires de l’Âme (Ghostly Black Metal)
Sometimes I lean towards bands too easily, perhaps, but in the case of France’s Silhouette I couldn’t help but with their mostly ghostly style. I reviewed their EP Les Retranchements when it dropped about two years ago, and it hit right in the emotional core more than most bands attempting the atmospheric route, but […]
experimental death metal \ Florida \ kaiju \ Max Winter \ progressive death metal \ Technical Death Metal \ Teratogen \ United States \ Willowtip Records
Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus (Technical Kaiju Death Metal)
I find it hard to believe there wasn’t another band named Gigan out there. The likely reason for this, outside of bands so minor they have 0 online presence, is likely anyone who thought of it quickly rethought the situation as “well, someone already picked that I bet,” leaving this Floridian death metal trio […]
death punk \ death rock \ Germany \ horror punk \ Into Endless Chaos Records \ Rotting Reign
Deathrite – Flames Licking Fever (Eerie Death Punk)
Nice. Needed something to mix things up around here! Plus, I received so much garbage these past months it’s been tough whittling it down to anything good, let alone something that rawks as much as Flames Licking Fever, the latest full-length from Germany’s Deathrite (capitalized or no?). There are a number of acts out […]
blackened grind \ blackened war metal \ Brian Paulin \ Chile \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Morbid Vision Films \ war metal
Onslaught Kommand – Malignancy (Blackened Chilean War Grind)
Almost two years ago I reviewed the demo by Chile’s Onslaught Kommand, and even before I remembered their Nunslaughterish logo I knew by the cover of Malignancy, with its more brutal and visceral approach to gore, I was going to be slewn asunder. I like the hand saw there too, very nice, because whatever […]
Amor Fati Productions \ atmospheric black metal \ dungeon black metal \ dungeon synth \ experimental black metal \ Germany \ Karmazid \ Patrick Zöller
Häxenzijrkell – Portal (Atmospheric Dungeon Metal)
It’s been four years since me and my good friends (in spirit) in Häxenzijrkell traded words. Last time around I tossed out a pleasant 4.5/5 for Die Nachseite, referring to it as “Halloween black metal.” This does not apply this time around and I need to be more serious. Showing a surprising ability to […]
dystopian speed metal \ Germany \ heavy metal \ Jawbreaker Records \ NWOBHM \ speed metal
Mechanic Tyrants – St. Diemen Riots (Dystopian Speed Metal PS Rush Sucks)
I was about to not even listen to this. The art drew me in with that killer layout, but then I read the label’s assertion that Germany’s Mechanic Tyrants is like Rush and I wanted to puke all over myself. I’m not the only one who’s said, it Rush is extremely overrated. They were […]
