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bestial black metal \ Khaos Diktator Design \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Stefan Todorović \ United States
Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations (Unrestrained Bestial Black Metal)
Another smasher from Sentient Ruin Laboratories, let’s start there. From there let’s move to the band, Diabolic Oath, a three-piece from Portland, Oregon, that insists on making the listener hallucinate. Oracular Hexations leaves the brain and all thoughts within it disfigured. What at first appears a dark story woven by a degenerate becomes far […]
black ambient \ Chris Campbell \ dark ambient \ Omen North \ ritualistic ambient \ Slithering Black Records
Her Menacing Pet – The Abyss Stares Back (Threateningly Melancholic Black Ambient)
Well, I did it, I judged a band by their name, but to be fair sometimes that equals review gold, like the perennial classic, and arguably worst band name in history, Clouds Taste Satanic. Her Menacing Pet, by contrast, sounded at first read like an overwrought, melodramatic foray into the goth by a tween […]
depressive suicidal black metal \ Germany \ Martin Falkenstein \ post-black metal \ post-suicidal black metal \ Valkenstijn
Nachts – Privileg (Pre or Perhaps Post-Suicidal Black Metal)
What in the hell kind of horrid past did this guy have? I knew I was going to get more sadness out of this than I bargained for, but holy hell guy, what did life do to you?! I have a penchant for the more emotional veins of black metal, depending on how it’s […]
Hells Headbangers \ Necroeucharist Productions \ Necrolatry Records \ Scotland \ United Kingdom
Caustic Phlegm – Putrefying Flesh (Putrid Intestinal Leak Death Metal)
There’s not much one needs to do to describe a band called Caustic Phlegm. They’re going to be caustic, and there’s going to be much phlegm expelled. The Xerox rot cover further exemplifies the sputum. With as short as I can be on descriptions, this release itself is short, being a reissued demo on […]
Belgium \ heavy metal \ Luisa Agudelo \ No Remorse Records \ Subhuman Being
Scavenger – Beyond the Bells (Genre-Defining Female-Fronted Heavy Metal)
I am so sick of hearing about goddamn Savage Master. Just stfu. They’re so goddamn overrated it makes me rage to the point of quitting existence. I’m not even sure how the fandom started, but what’s the point, because by now you’re probably wondering why I’m going on a tirade about a band not […]
Belgium \ blackened punk \ blackened punk thrash \ blackened thrash \ Empire Records \ Mörtuus \ Raul Fuentes
DEVASTATIÖN – Rise of the Dead (Blackened Punk Thrash Beyond Your Dreams)
Holy hell is this good. I mean my blood is still boiling hours later. I want to punch something, hard. Having never heard of Belgium’s DEVASTATIÖN before this, though they’ve been dishing out releases since 2007 and…now wait a minute… Yes, nevermind! I do remember these guys, but their album Pussy Juice Blues just […]
batdog \ blackened metalpunk \ blackened punk \ Burney \ metalpunk \ Sweden \ Wolves of Hades
Dödsrit – Nocturnal Will (Melancholic Blackened Metalpunk)
What an interesting combination of genres this one is, but regardless, musically, it has one of the most emotional presentations I’ve ever seen out of anything going that “blackened” route. Pause, like the armored knight above, and take a breath before you listen. Sweden’s Dödsrit have been releasing full-lengths since 2017, this being their […]
dark ambient \ dark drone \ drone \ Pelagic Records \ Wayne Barlowe
Lustmord – Much Unseen is Also Here (Deific Dark Ambient Drone)
What hasn’t been said about living myth Lustmord? Around since 1980 and with connections to practically every important industrial, experimental, etc. act since then and before, there’s little I can add to the mix that will make him feel more godly. In the hordes of mere mortals bowing to his aural vistas I’m barely […]
Adam Burke \ Century Media \ Italy \ Nightjar Illustrations \ Technical Death Metal
Hideous Divinity – Unextinct (They’re Good Technical Death Metal)
Here’s one of those bands I seem to recall scanning through at some point, but quickly forgot for unknown reasons. Big names I tend to avoid because they already have substantial fanbases and it maintains my false belief that I’m totally vndergrovnd by just not paying attention to them. New Cannibal Corpse album? Deleted. […]
archaic death metal \ archaic thrash metal \ death thrash \ Noah Cutter Meihoff \ Transylvanian Recordings \ United States
Molten – Malicide (Archaic Heretical Death Thrash)
Goddamn. Listen, for the millionth time, cover art is so important in selling a band, a book, practically everything. Get a good artist! Case in point here’s Malicide, the latest full-length from San Francisco’s Molten. A little surprised this hasn’t received much press as of yet. Death thrash can be a generally easy sell […]
