Home » Archives by category » Musuck
Ainul Iblis \ California \ Los Angeles \ New York \ Osman Ramadanović \ plaintive black metal \ United States black metal \ USBM
Vaamatar – Medievalgeist (Plaintive Cries US Black Metal)
Well that’s a black metal logo, right? But that art…something…more to it…something sinister and plaintively classique perhaps? Whatever that vague feeling is, I knew it was going to totally crush. But wait, this is USBM, which sometimes like to think it crushes but makes us blushes from embarrassment? Not in this case. LA’s Vaamatar, […]
brutal death metal \ Ohio \ Patrick McDonagh \ Redefining Darkness Records \ Toledo \ United States
Mutilatred – Determined to Rot (Like What Do You Want Exactly Brutal Death Metal)
Well I took my time on this one, breaking my mantra of (usually) no reviews after release date, also of reviews of stuff that will totally blow your mind. But in my defense I already had this one ready to go, needed to listen to it more, and the connection at the place where […]
Ani Artworks \ atmospheric doom \ Chile \ funeral doom \ Lenore \ Meuse Music Records \ Natalia Drepina \ Natalia Drepina Photography \ Santiago
Rise to the Sky – Every Day, A Funeral (Super Good and Still Super Slow Funeral Doom)
Ah let us dampen the super bright weather we’ve been having with some funeral doom yay! One of the most difficult genres within the doom world, I’ve found very few bands skilled enough to give it soul I’d call super. The primary issue has always been that the subgenre is known for its extremely […]
ambient black metal \ dark ambient \ folk black metal \ oriental black metal \ Saudi Arabia \ Shaytan Productions
AlNamrood – Worship the Degenerate (Saudi Folk Black Metal Cool)
You’ve probably heard all the legends, so I won’t even bother starting there. Yes, this is that Saudi black metal band with folkish elements. And yes they’re probably the most recognized band from their country, which reputedly wants to kill them for even existing. I’ve sampled their work before, but honestly, though I enjoyed […]
blackened thrash punk \ Bogota \ Colombia \ Gothic thrash punk \ Ossuary Records \ Subhuman Illustrations
Ramera – Anarquía y Destrucción (So Angry Gothic Colombian Thrash Punk)
Typically I don’t consider promos this far past the release date, if at all (and we’re talking over a month here), but the album cover with the black/white scary hair, the hollow eyes of much brooding, the burning church, the band’s name (which translates to Harlot), and the fact that this is one angry […]
death doom \ dungeon doom \ dungeon synth \ Eleventh Key \ Pennsylvania \ Sign of Evil \ United States \ York
Cultic – Of Fire and Sorcery (Dungeon Death Doom)
I believe someone already said it in another review, or perhaps more than one individual, but regardless let me reiterate; this is probably going to be one of the top five releases of the year. Actually make that likely top one. Definitely one of the best of the decade. Get it? Cultic has sloughed […]
ethereal black metal \ Hungary \ Iron Bonehead Productions
Mistcavern – Into Twilight (Ethereal Black Metal)
Well wasn’t this a little surprise this week? Surprising in the sense that I thought it would be beyond typical, the usual, the banal. So typical it was likely a simple stereotype given form. But something told me in that hazy, miasmatic cover there was likely something of a musical equivalent. As usual, I […]
alchemical death metal \ Bio Bio \ Chile \ Concepción \ Desierto Absoluto \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Rodrigo Pereira Salvatierra
Concilivm – A Monument in Darkness (Alchemical Death Metal)
Heavenly God the end is near with this one phew. Though not the first Chilean band I’ve encountered, nor the first band summoning such disgust, Concilivm is definitely one of the new greats, and proof that their homeland is one of the hottest pits of corrupted metal in the world these days. Caustic, infectious, […]
blackened speed punk \ Caligari Records \ Canada \ Ibay Arifin \ Montreal \ Quebec \ Selfmadegod Records
Skumstrike – Deadly Intrusions (Blackened Speed Punk of Much Rejoicing)
Ahhh rejoice, this is an easy one. This is one of those albums that’s incredibly simple to review but most critics wasted, or will waste, their time on saying it, relying on inexcusable and nonsensical references to Shakespeare while experimenting in diluted Gonzo journalism, in the end obscuring WTF they’re trying to say and […]
Amor Fati Productions \ Germany \ Helhallen \ mining black metal \ North Rhine-Westphalia \ Thuringia
Dauþuz – Vom schwarzen Schmied – Bergkgesænge (Mining Black Metal Works Wow)
Spectacular. Not only do we have here a band reinvestigating itself after only a few months, let alone at all, but we have a true achievement in the “niche effect,” which will hereby refer to any bands attempting to work bizarre themes into their sound. Usually tragic, here it’s epic. When so much has […]
