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Adam Burke \ Arizona \ Everlasting Spew Records \ experimental death metal \ isolating death metal \ Nightjar Illustration \ Phoenix \ United States
Lago – Vigil (Isolating Experimental Death Metal)
Well, you know, I sometimes fancy myself a hideous shade of human existence, or at least the child of such beings, and Lago, who hail from the United States, are perfectly ready to fulfill my desires to identify as other to such a severe degree I’m unrecognizable as something alive. I’ve decided from now […]
death doom \ deathdoom \ Honza Vlášek \ Jan Vlášek \ Memento Mori \ Night Terror Records \ Slovakia
Hrob – Brána Chladu (Heterogeneitic Brumal Death Doom)
Everything about this album is so damn cohesive, even something so apparently simple as the album title, because nothing escapes the clutches of Slovakia’s Hrob. Yet we have fools out there referring to this as “putrid” because they lack the skill to understand the finer details of a band’s sound. Brána Chladu reveals not […]
Costa Rica \ gore metal \ Grant Hatfield \ horror metal \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Memento Mori \ old school death metal
Candarian – Trepanación (Idiosyncratic Gore Metal)
Lol at first this band was called “Canadian” and I was like WTF have too many cool and “brutal” terms been used that we have to desperately reach at anything including random country names? Then I realized there was an ‘R’ in it and I can’t read. Now, getting into the actual subject at […]
Dying Victims Productions \ epic heavy metal \ heavy metal \ heavy speed metal \ Mario López \ mountainous metal \ Portugal \ speed metal
Toxikull – Turbulence (Mountainous Heavy Speed Metal)
I’ve received promos from Portugal’s Toxikull a few times if memory serves me right, and I hated every single minute of it. Obviously, this has all changed with their latest full-length, Turbulence. In fact I didn’t even remember it was the same band I had passed on more than once until I checked out […]
crypt metal \ death metal \ Mexico \ Necromaniac \ Terror from Hell Records \ Thomas Westphal
Necroccultus – The Afterdeath Blackness (Mildewed Crypt Metal)
Ahhh, yes, old school death metal! Actually, I hate saying that because it assumes a band’s style and relies on comparison. Take them as they come, accept them as they are! Mexico’s Necroccultus should therefore be judged on themselves, and nothing else! But I get it, they’re quite obscure, and this is only their […]
Amor Fati Productions \ atmospheric black metal \ atmospheric death metal \ Beyond Art \ blackened death metal \ Brian Nguyen \ heterodoxical black metal \ Sweden
Mylingar – Út (Hetorodoxical Blackened Death Metal)
A band named after the ghost of an unbaptized child? You can’t expect anything less than what you get with the latest full-length from Sweden’s Mylingar. I’d use the word “atmospheric” here, but this is less order, more lawlessness than I feel that term conveys. In spite of that, and before you choke on […]
crust death \ death crust \ death doom \ doom crust \ Finland \ Hevijevi Art \ Iron Corpse \ Jennika Vikman \ Slimeweaver \ Svart Records
Unearthly Rites – Tortural Symphony of the Flesh (Despondent Death Doom Crust)
I was first introduced to Finland’s Unearthly Rites through their debut full-length two years ago, Ecdysis, but man do they lay it all out and mess with your fucking head with their latest, Tortural Symphony of the Flesh. You can expect the same death crust energy they brought prior, but now with an impressive […]
Canada \ death doom \ funeral death doom \ funeral doom \ Me Saco un Ojo Records
Funelore – The Dissolution of Consciousness (Abandoned Cemetery Funeral Doom)
I chose this one this week not because it was all I had left that was good (actually it was), but technically because it deserved it, and that’s rare with bands of this type. I’ve always been a fan of the funeral subgenre within the greater expanse of doom, primarily because it’s enjoyable to […]
bestial death metal \ bestial war metal \ blackened war metal \ Caligari Records \ dark fantasy \ eldritch \ eldritch metal \ Germany \ Jack Sabbat \ war metal
Barbaric Oath – Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance (Blackened Eldritch Fantasy Metal)
I’ve recently been delving into medieval wargaming, and what more of a perfect soundtrack for slaying mounted knights with halberds than this absolute trebuchet to the face that is Sword, Sorcery, Vengeance by what should become one of the greatest bands of the eldritch approach, Barbaric Oath! Enter the battlefield! If deficient in a […]
Germany \ heavy death metal \ heavy metal \ Maegan LeMay \ Shadow Kingdom Records
Cruel Force – Haneda (Heavy Death Metal)
I don’t think I’ve seen a band with growth as impressive as Cruel Force. If you look at their earlier work, it leaned more towards the “evil”/Satanic edge, favoring an ominous presence with lo-fi leather, transitioned into a less aggressive form with its spikes rounded to studs, and now with this, their latest, a […]
