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doom pop \ Exile on Mainstream Records \ Germany \ Hamburg \ Sarah Breen \ sludge doom pop \ sludge pop
What’s with all this tastiness I’ve been receiving recently? Went through a big glut of metal for awhile and suddenly I’ve been seeing stuff from genres outside of the usual darkness. Sludge doom pop? Yeah, I’ll take that, I need that. Gawsh. I’ve sampled their work before, but their latest, Frost, is a dip […]
Berlin \ Germany \ post-punk \ Rapid Eye Records \ Svart Records \ Victor Puigcerver
I’ve seen a lot of bands defined as “defying categorization,” a bit ironic, yes, but usually also more than a bit wrong. Oftentimes such phraseology is used as an attempt to sell something from the musical bargain bin. That wretched state of existence where everything you never heard of dwells and attempts to scream […]
blackened crossover \ blackened sludge \ North Carolina \ Raleigh \ southern sludge \ United States
Hmm. Well. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a band as versatile as this in any genre. I also like that these guys are from Raleigh, NC, because the scene there has always been this weird mid-level thing for the underground. Not unusual, since it is a college domain, and the expected indie market […]
bestial death metal \ blackened death metal \ California \ Goat Throne Records \ Sacramento \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Silvia Palmeroni \ Stygian Black Hand \ United States \ war metal
Well get ready to consume this one at face fooking value. A multitude of upside-down crosses hide within a festering logo above an image that summarizes the album title below. What’s this one like? Well it’s a Climax of Disgusting Impurities! What else? Honestly though, the face on that child-like goat being is freaking […]
dark folk \ dark forest rock \ dark occult folk \ dark occult rock \ Finland \ occult folk \ occult rock \ Svart Records \ Thomas Hooper
I don’t think I’ve seen many bands with as diverse a discography as Hexvessel. Billed as a variety of things such as occult folk and dark forest rock, this quartet from Finland have been crafting amazing sounds for years now, including godlike artists in their work such as Chelsea Wolfe, but even without these […]
Geneva \ Henry Fuseli \ Hummus Records \ Johann Heinrich Füssli \ post-hardcore \ post-hardcore sludge \ post-sludgecore \ sludge metal \ Sludgelord Records \ Switzerland
Had some really bad promos this month. I almost settled a few times, almost did it, I swear to God I almost did. But I will not! I…WILL…NOT! Glad I abstained, because the new one here from Switzerland’s Rorcal is exactly what I was waiting for. No more compromising! I can’t believe I got […]
Austria \ Digital Sorcery \ Personal Records \ spooky black metal \ Vienna
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
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
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
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 […]