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ambient black metal \ black ambient \ black ambient metal \ dark ambient metal \ Maurice De Jong \ Netherlands \ raw ambient
Dodenbezweerder – Als De Hemel Zich Vult Met Apocalyptisch Kopergeschal (Black Ambient Metal)
I was pretty bummed I didn’t receive the new Dodenbezweerder in the promos (it’s technically past release, which you likely know I tend to avoid), but then again Maurice doesn’t need me to know he’s an absolute netherworld deity of dark music. If you’re not familiar with his work, which is unlikely, it’s the […]
Adam Medford \ body horror \ Chaos Records \ crust metal \ d-beat \ Life After Death \ Oregon \ Strange Creature Collages \ United States
Negative Prayer – Self // Wound (Repulsive Body Horror Crust Metal)
Oooo this one has some power behind it. I guess it has to since it fits easily into the crust metal genre but yet… I don’t like dropping tags often, but Portland, Oregon’s Negative Prayer can definitely be rooted in that as well as the tradition of d-beat, yet, hmm, there’s something different here… […]
Conan metal \ epic heavy metal \ epic power metal \ France \ heavy metal \ Mario Lopez \ No Remorse Records \ NWOBHM \ power metal
Nemedian Chronicles – The Savage Sword (Legit Conan Metal)
When a band takes an idea and makes it so blatant in everything they do, most often disaster ensues. Examples aren’t necessary, just trust me on this. But, here, with Nemedian Chronicles we find the standard broken. It’s not going to happen in this case. Conan will never fail us. Even though everything about […]
Far Beyond – The End of My Road (Melodic Symphonic Death Metal to Fell Whole Forests)
Dang, well I ended up really liking this far beyond what I thought I could or was possible for anyone. I see that “symphonic” thing tossed about and I get scared. Oh no, another one of these? Usually ends up being some horrid conglomeration of Goth and power metal that basically eliminates the cultural […]
blackened death metal \ Cold Poison \ Concreto Records \ Mexico \ Odium Records
Black Hate – Vía Purgativa:Qui Spiritu Diaboli Aguntur Hi Filii Satanae Sunt (Spiteful Blackened Death Metal)
Uh oh, they’re back! Black Hate was one of the bands that really set off Deaf Sparrow after the site redesign in 2013 with their incredible, and imo greatly underappreciated Los Tres Mundos. From that point they seemed to constantly break their own boundaries, or rather destroy their own edifices to build something upon […]
dark folk \ dungeon folk \ Italy \ Laura Sans Gassó \ Lay Bare Recordings \ Slovenia \ STRXart
kariti – Dheghom (Dungeon Folk)
I’m not sure if this is a conflict of interest but since I’m not releasing this one I guess not, right? I’m a bit partial to kariti, one reason of which is the fact that I received permission from her and Aural Music to do a co-release of her full-length Covered Mirrors on vinyl, […]
Belial NecroArts \ Canti Eretici \ Chaos Records \ Germany \ Hesse \ Marburg \ mystical black metal \ Nuno Zuki
Seltsame Erden – Gedankentempeln (Hauntingly Mystical Black Metal)
I decided on three music reviews this week, can you believe it? They must be pretty damn good then! Truth. As I go through more and more promos over the years I feel like my mind demands things to be more clever. And with good reason; there are far too many acts doing things […]
Finland \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Poland \ Primitive Reaction \ Witchslaughter Artworks
Throat – Blood Exaltation (Possessed Black Metal)
Can musicians, or rather a band itself, be…possessed? I feel like possession has become too trite in media, so maybe that’s not a good idea, but then again has it been done yet for bands in particular? I’ll assume not and say that Poland/Finland’s Throat is just such a band. At some point in […]
Australia \ beast metal \ Blood Harveset \ Melbourne \ Victoria
Contaminated – Celebratory Beheading (Regal Beast Metal)
Uh oh, MF Contaminated is back! I remembered the name from the memories of the hulking beast cover on a previous album, and yet again I was struck by their utilization of catchy artwork, which in this case is a simple shot from the film La Reine Margot (1994). Effective. But, at any rate, […]
Absolute Desert Art \ blackened death metal \ blackened occult death metal \ Chile \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ occult death metal \ Rodrigo Pereira Salvatierra \ Santiago
Unaussprechlichen Kulten – Häxan Sabaoth (Nebulous Occult Death Metal)
There were a few albums I was perusing for the second review of the week of our musick feature, and Unaussprechlichen Kulten was simply a requirement, likely to be a landmark title for 2024. If you’re not familiar with them, you’ve got a nuanced Cthulhu reference from Howard reused in German by Lovecraft? Even […]
