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Brooklyn \ Chris Allison \ fantasy doom \ King Volume Records \ New York \ New York City \ old school doom \ United States
Castle Rat – The Bestiary (Truly Great Fantasy Doom)
I was never a fan of Castle Rat before and after the hype. This wasn’t to say I didn’t enjoy what they did, I just didn’t see the greatness, or rather no one else noticed the greatness wasn’t there yet. We all need to be honest about that. Great style, great concepts, great ability, […]
doom metal \ MA \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ sludge doom \ sludge metal \ South Korea
Gawthrop – Kuboa (Wretched Sludge Doom)
Honestly I was not a fan of this at first. South Korea’s Gawthrop dilutes industrial death and noise into a stark, super-pressurized form of sludge doom that’s so absolutely wretched it will likely remind you of the drudgery that is your life. The compressed sound held me back, at first, until I really listened […]
old school death metal \ osdm \ Server Terlekchi \ Ukraine
Heruvim – Mercator (Deep Thoughts Death Metal)
It’s easy to pin a band with a single genre, but the question can remain, does the pin actually stick? Heruvim are unabashed in calling themselves “old school death metal.” Their debut full-length, Mercator, is an atlas of the genre, yet their presentation is much different. This can be easily summarized in a variety […]
Chicago \ doom punk \ Illinois \ Prosthetic Records \ Rosario Scimeca \ sludge metal \ sludge punk \ United States
Motherless – Do You Feel Safe? (Traumatic Doom Punk)
Been craving something with punk attitude recently, and thankfully this one came in the promo set some weeks ago. I’ve been through probably 15 times since then. Chicago’s Motherless has a penchant for answering their own questions. The immediate answer to Do You Feel Safe? is a rather quick “no,” taking the paranoia of […]
Jawbreaker Records \ Mikhael Feliks \ Spain \ sword and sorcery \ sword and sorcery thrash metal \ thrash metal \ weirdfacee_std
Hunger – Ruler of the Wolves (Sword and Sorcery Thrash Metal)
Boy there’s like nothing about this band currently. When you see absolutely nothing on Metallum and AI slop claims they don’t exist, you know you’re in trouble, or about to come upon a true treasure. Thankfully, this is the latter type of find. It took forever for me to track them down (in Internet […]
Adam Burke \ Amor Fati Productions \ Belgium \ esoteric black metal \ mysterious black metal \ Nightjar Illustration \ occult black metal
Lvthn – The Devil’s Bridge (Smarty Pants Occult Black Metal)
Ah, the serene cover art you see above so accurately captures the experience of listening to The Devil’s Bridge. I don’t believe I’ve heard of Belgium’s Lvthn until this moment, and though they’ve been around for over a decade, their offerings have been sparse as they maintain an aloof existence in the community. But […]
Void – Forbidden Morals (Theatrical Horror Thrash)
We’ve got that spooking coming soon, and what better way to prepare us for that mood than a band that utilizes its heavy metal magic to craft stories about vampires, castles, bats, and the like, right? I almost didn’t review this, because, generally, I avoid bands with huge fan bases. But, at times, I […]
Apocalyptic Witchcraft Recordings \ black metal witchcraft \ female-fronted \ occult black metal \ raw black metal \ Turkey
Ash Magick – Rituals of Anathematic East (Real Black Metal Witchcraft)
I feel like only close friends with a similar, nihilistic mindset, could craft something of this nature. Lo and behold, the two soulless husks who made this appear to be such a case. Suffice to say the two women behind Ash Magick, and their latest offering of ritualistic, black metal witchcraft, Rituals of Anathematic […]
Australia \ Brilliant Emperor Records \ Grelleach \ Gutter Prince Cabal \ post-black metal \ post-death metal
Hebephrenique – decathexis (Post-Post Black Metal)
I’m just going to start by saying this is a rare instance where an album deserves a perfect score. And I kind of figured that from the digging into the self suggested by the cover but damn it to hell I didn’t think Australia’s Hebephrenique would be delivering this kind of craziness. I’m barely […]
Belial NecroArts \ blackened death metal \ Denmark \ Emanzipation Productions \ with metal
Panzerchrist – Maleficium Part 2 (Legitimately Good Witch Metal)
I was familiar with Panzerchrist before this one, but I passed. One of the reasons I passed is the themes. Witches, witch hunters, maleficia, Christ, hell, even panzers? Damn, this shit’s batting zero and this isn’t even baseball. Are they aware of that? So when I saw Part 2 of their Maleficium series appear […]
