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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 […]
California \ crossover \ DecoNoir Art \ grossover \ Richmond \ splatterthrash \ Tankcrimes \ United States
Ghoul – Noxious Concotions (Grossover)
I’m fairly surprised I never reviewed Ghoul before. I mean this shit is right up the alley I’ve built around myself and my critics on this site. We’ve branded ourselves so deep the scar went into bone. And with Ghoul we’ve got darkness, irony, vileness, sick art, gross stage presence (with bloody, burlap hoods, […]
blackened doom metal \ Gordiart \ Gothic doom \ Netherlands \ Void Wanderer Productions \ War Productions
Stuporous – Asylum’s Lament (Grandiloquent Gothic Doom)
Ready to get stupefied? Ready to feel stupid? Well this Dutch blackened doom outfit, Stuporous, will leave you feeling just such a way. Uncertain, confused, not smart enough, overwhelmed perhaps, but certainly interested. It took me a few listens to really feel what these multi-instrument masters were doing, but I still felt stupid listening […]
California \ Crypt of the Wizard \ Hayden Hall \ Headsplit Records \ Memento Mori \ Santa Cruz \ Sick Slice \ sludge death \ sludge metal
Dipygus – S/T (Devonian Beast Sludge Death)
This is one of the few bands that came in the promos in the past year that really nails their themes and aesthetic to a degree that deserves attention alone. I’m not sure entirely how to define what you’re about to get out of this, either, but it’s a mixture of center of the […]
Agipunk Records \ Bologna \ darkwave \ Goth \ Italy \ Liz Van Der Nüll \ post-goth \ post-punk \ vampire punk
Horror Vacui – S/T (Post-Goth Punk Goth)
Yes, Goth stuff. I’ve been making more of an effort to find such things for review, because I just don’t get enough. When’s the word going to get out there already that this site covers all things dark? Maybe Goth labels are simply not as proactive with publicity? That would fit the aesthetic more, […]
Atlantico \ Barranquilla \ Colombia \ Julián Felipe Mora Ibanez \ molten puke death metal \ putrid death metal \ Xtreem Music
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. […]
blackened speed metal \ blackened thrash \ Guadalajara \ Inframetal Records \ Jalisco \ Juan Carlos García Gutiérrez \ Mexico \ Necrohexx \ witch metal
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 […]
blackened death rock \ Claudio Elias Scialabba \ death rock \ Dying Victims Productions \ Italy \ Messina \ Sicily
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 […]
blackened death metal \ California \ Hells Headbangers \ Los Angeles \ Nestor Avalos \ United States
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, […]
black ambient \ dark ambient \ dark industrial \ dark ritualistic ambient \ Japan \ ritualistic ambient \ Slithering Black Records
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. […]
