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Funeral Vomit – Monumental Putrescence (Molten Puke Death Metal)

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Funeral Vomit – Monumental Putrescence (Molten Puke Death Metal)

  You ever wonder what it would be like to vomit at a funeral? Or is this a question about a funeral for vomit? Can one grieve over vomit? Or, rather, is it perhaps that the entire cortège is releasing vomit at a funeral? These are only some of the questions that come to mind. […]

Phantom – Handed to Execution (Neck-Wrecking Witch Metal)

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Phantom – Handed to Execution (Neck-Wrecking Witch Metal)

  As before, let me say it, I usually don’t review an album after release except in rare cases where something moves me enough. Mexico’s Phantom is just such a rarity. Now, that might be a bit deceptive since there’s nothing entirely new here, this is speed and thrash metal, after all, but the rare […]

Bunker 66 – Portraits of Dismay (Blackened Autobiographical Death Rock)

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Bunker 66 – Portraits of Dismay (Blackened Autobiographical Death Rock)

  Normally, I avoid compilations. I get the point, but I don’t like them, I want something new. Okay, so the way around that is typically a band or label will add new tracks or something, but they’re most often covers so why TF bother? But, when you put in there rarity whether early demos […]

Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Traitorous Bones Blackened Death Metal)

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Demoncy – Diabolica Blasphemiae (Traitorous Bones Blackened Death Metal)

  Though part of the original guarde of black metal in the United States, I’ve never really considered Demoncy to be black metal, though I have always considered them to be awesome. Their earlier work certainly hearkens back to the early 1990s wave from Norway, but as time went on they developed their own, Californian, […]

Maris Anguis – Infernal Reign (Black Ambient Soul Purge)

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Maris Anguis – Infernal Reign (Black Ambient Soul Purge)

  There’s good ambient, and there’s bad ambient, regardless of subgenre. There is no middle. The reason is simple. The artist is either skilled at making music, or merely holds keys on a keyboard. I’ve said this a bagillkillion times. Here we have something even beyond the usual skill, though, something of darkly mythic potential. […]

Burial Moon – S/T (Mystical Darkness Raw Black Metal)

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Burial Moon – S/T (Mystical Darkness Raw Black Metal)

  This one surprised me for reasons that might escape the usual listener. I was told once I review too much black metal, but that happened to be a coincidence for the time and now that winter draws closer I have an excuse if I wanna engage. At any rate, I know the tropes, you […]

Casket Cassette – Love Letters to Ghosts (Nighttime High School Basketball Court Cold Wave)

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Casket Cassette – Love Letters to Ghosts (Nighttime High School Basketball Court Cold Wave)

  I tell you what here’s another shat week for promos. I had only a single submission I wanted to review (already done before this one) and in desperation I thought “hey, been awhile since I heard some good Goth licks.” Search a tag and sometimes you come upon gold, this time under the moniker […]

Carcinoid – Encomium to Extinction (Smarty Pants Grave-Splitting Death Doom)

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Carcinoid – Encomium to Extinction (Smarty Pants Grave-Splitting Death Doom)

  Well this one surprised me now, didn’t it? Just the other day I was saying how Australia’s Werewolves pretty much satisfies everything you’d need in death metal from the country, but now I decided to add to the list Carcinoid, which opts for the death doom angle, with some cocky smartypants attitude. On the […]

Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (Shameful Death Metal Eroticism)

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Vastum – Inward to Gethsemane (Shameful Death Metal Eroticism)

  For some bizarre reason it took me some time to get into this one, but don’t let that fool you, it’s an absolute ripper. I’ll blame the weather or something, because clearly my mind just wasn’t ready for it. Again, strange, because I find a certain site rating this much lower than would I, […]

Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars (Nasty, Brutish, and Short War Metal)

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Left Cross – Upon Desecrated Altars (Nasty, Brutish, and Short War Metal)

  Here’s a band I knew nothing about until I came across this in the promos. At first I thought it was some bro metal band obsessed with punching (see their name), and then I found out it was actually murderous war metal (redundant, I know) band from Richmond, Virginia, which is quite close to […]