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Alexander Shadrin \ death doom \ Morkh \ Nether Temple Design \ Transcending Obscurity \ United States
Dwelling Below – Wearisome Guardians (Dimensional Death Doom)
Dwelling Below, a heretofore criminally ignored death doom act from the United States, have carved a space for themselves in a genre known primarily for crushing atmosphere, but yet which can often lead to plodding that wearies the listener to the point of disgust. Thus perhaps calling this one Wearisome Guardians was a bad […]
anti-Christian death metal \ Austrlia \ blackened death metal \ Chris Moyen \ evil death metal \ Hells Headbangers \ Satanic death metal
Abominator – The Fire Brethren (Anti-Christian Evil Metal)
I feel like a lot of reviewers are going to refer to this as a “relentless assault on the senses,” or some regurgitated nonsense of similar form. Stop with the platitudes, please. I’ll admit, that’s difficult when you’re dealing with a blackened death metal band that’s been doing their thing for over thirty years. […]
Acromatopsia \ atavistic death metal \ Avo \ Gabriele Gramaglia \ Italy \ Milan \ primal death metal \ primitive death metal \ war metal
Lugubrious Garment – Demo MMXXV (Atavistic Death Metal)
I’m so proud of myself that I got to use the word ‘lugubrious’ finally. I actually didn’t even know it was a word until this gem oozed itself up to the surface of the promo swamp. A side project of the dejected Italian insanity machine Cosmic Putrefaction (Gabriele Gramaglia), Lugubrious Garment was conceived as […]
blackened death metal \ Daniel Hermosilla \ Kansas \ Memento Mori \ Nox Fragor Artworks \ United States
Thaumaturgy – Pestilential Hymns (Pestilential Death Metal)
I don’t believe I had heard of Thaumaturgy before this one, so one can assume they were something of a whisper in the community, which at this point returns as a virulent plague. Their latest here, Pestilential Hymns, is a masterful, one-man (now apparently three) descent into a suffocating miasma of blackened death metal. […]
dark industrial \ darkwave \ death industrial \ Fallow Field \ Hedonic Reversal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Spain
NOIR NOIR – Black Curtain / Divine Swelling (Deathwave)
I tend to avoid releases like this, but I so rarely receive anything of the industrial or out of the various wave genres that I need to be less picky. Not picky about the music, because this kills, but about the details. In this case, to begin, the work is incredible, my only hesitation […]
El Greco \ entrenched \ Finland \ grindcore \ Iron Corpse \ nihilistic grindcore \ Trench Warfare
DEATHFUCKINGWOUND – VOID MMXXV (Entrenched Nihilistic Grindcore)
DEATHFUCKINGWOUND. That’s the name, huh? Well, I almost deleted the email, not because I’m a sensitive man, but because I didn’t feel like writing another review this week. Yet, with their completely nihilistic aesthetic, I decided to give it a few seconds, and found myself immediately eviscerated by VOID MMXXV, even a mere 10 […]
existential \ funeral doom \ New Jersey \ Profound Lore Records \ United States \ Will Kuberski \ Worthless
Evoken – Mendacium (Existential Funeral Doom)
Huh, what do you know? I didn’t think a band from the US could pull off something like this, but it looks like the winds of unearthly spirits are finally sweeping the lands, or at least the east coast as this band’s from New Jersey. New Jersey? Holy this this is a miracle, and […]
Amor Fati Productions \ atmospheric black metal \ Belgium \ Germany \ ritualistic black metal \ Sophia Melissa \ Switzerland
Illusive Key – Consume Us (Atmospheric Ritualistic Black Metal)
Illusive Key, a German-Belgian coven who’ve just recently allowed their eyes to glow from far back in the darkness, are the type of band that prefers a bit of mystery. It’s clear, having listened to this thoroughly, that there’s skill to be found here, meaning they likely have experience outside of this project. And […]
bestial black metal \ blackened war metal \ India \ Iron Bonhead Productions \ Qayin Mandala Graphex
Tetragrammacide – Cyber-Tantric Paradigm of Radical Sri-Vidya (Bestial Technological War Metal of Samsara)
I’m still going to call these guys the greatest sonic juggernaut in the history of India. It doesn’t matter what they do; demo, split, EP, compilation, full-length, they always annihilate any preconceptions of what constitutes “metal”. And they continue to do this with an absolutely brazen approach: they’re loud, inaccessible (to fledglings), violent, noisy, […]
