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Austria \ Digital Sorcery \ Personal Records \ spooky black metal \ Vienna
Carathis – The Haunting of Sablewood (Spooky Tube Sock Black Metal)
Holy shit what in the hell was this guy doing before this point? I mean, hey, I appreciate some of the genre-mashing Carathis was engaging in in his dark past, but this, I mean this is truly something else. Hell, last time I reviewed a band from Austria was like three years ago and […]
Copenhagen \ Dark Descent Records \ death metal sewage \ Denmark \ Hovedstaden \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Phoebus A. D. Moreleón
Undergang – De syv stadier af fordærv (Death Metal Sewage)
For some reason I never got into these guys until this EP. Perhaps they were too messy, their production too hollow, their approach too typical if you’ve heard gore metal style already, I really don’t know. I don’t have an excuse really, sorry. But hey, now I’m on board so that’s cool. Things picked […]
anguished black metal \ Bavaria \ Germany \ Matthias Jahn \ Niederwerrn \ Synod \ The Sinister Flame
Baxaxaxa – De Vermis Mysteriis (Cleaner and Meaner Anguished Black Metal)
Goddamn it I just love Baxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaxaaaa but man I just can’t spell their name right still! I reviewed these guys before and it’s still a goddamn problem! Jeez! I have to check it or cut-and-paste every…single…time. Well, if anything, at least they’re back with another full-length instead of dipping back into obscure mists, and, […]
Ed Repka \ flogging death metal \ Indiana \ Indianapolis \ Redefining Darkness Records \ United States
Flesher – Tales of Grotesque Demise (Soaky Bath Bomb Flogging Death Metal)
Ready for a lame analogy of an intro? This is like a soaky bomb in steaming water with candles to a fan of death metal. An album that relaxes for its familiarity and calms the mind of a death metal fan. “Ah, there it is, I remember it,” you say. For this phenomenon to […]
atmospheric black metal \ Bharata Danu \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Pennsylvania \ phantasmal black metal \ United States
Luring – Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ (Phantasmal Atmospheric Black Metal)
Ahhhh breathe in that atmosphere. I’ve honed my tastes over the past few years and this is proof. Actually, make that a decade or longer. Fact is I receive so much stuff I’ve heard practically everything imaginable. And I’ve said it a number of times, black metal can rarely wake me up, let alone […]
Álex Tedín \ ambient funeral doom \ Barcelona \ Catalonia \ Heresie Studio \ orchestral funeral doom \ Personal Records \ Spain
Of Darkness – Missa Tridentina (Orchestral Ambient Funeral Doom)
Pretty sure I know at least one of the guys in this band somehow, digital acquaintance level, but I can’t put my finger on it… Whatever, I’m sure if I took the time to look I’d determine this Spanish outfit has had its hands in a number of disgusting bands in some way, but […]
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes \ France \ Gates of Hell Records \ Ivan Brun \ Lyon \ medieval heavy metal
Meurtrières – Ronde de nuit (French Medieval Heavy Metal)
Well, here’s a band name I had to copy and paste because I couldn’t write it properly! But that’s besides the most important point, which is, sigh, sorry, like, well, you know, I wasn’t entirely sure I even liked this to review it. But, hey, a real critic (ahem, me, not with like 1000 […]
Chaos Records \ Chase Slaker \ existential death metal \ Seattle \ United States \ Washington
Cystic – Palace of Shadows (Existential Death Metal)
I think I encountered this, at least once before, where an album sounds like garbagio on headphones. Perhaps it’s time to realize my Ghostbusters headphones aren’t exactly, well, stereo quality… Anyway, these guys blast on a system, even PC speakers, so we’ll forget about that. Now that we got the dripping death metal out […]
dripping death metal \ old school death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Satanik Royalty Records \ T. Kannibalet Hietomaa Art \ Toni Hietomaa \ United States
Dripping Decay – Festering Grotesqueries (Truly Dripping Old School Death Metal)
Not much else to expect from a band naming themselves Dripping Decay, than, well, exactly that! I love it when artists immerse themselves in an idea, and these guys are completely covered in stuff that drips. Their logo drips, their artwork drips, and the music, yes, it drips. Their “mascot” is even named ‘Drippy,’ […]
avant garde black metal \ decadent dark metal \ fin de siècle \ Germany \ Käthe Kollwitz \ Koblenz \ Rhineland-Palatinate \ Soulseller Records
Porta Nigra – Weltende (Fin de siècle Black Metal)
Is there another way to say “this one blew me away?” Well that rhymed so start with that, I suppose. No, I shall not! I shall not! Now and again a promo is so accurate in its description of a band it’s immediately obvious you’re about to hit upon something unique. Focusing on fin […]
