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Canada \ cemeterial heavy metal \ dark heavy metal \ Eduard Johnson \ heavy metal \ Jawbreaker Records
Muertrier – Messe de Fer (Cemeterial Heavy Metal)
Initially, there was something about Canada’s Meurtrier, or at least their debut full-length, Messe de Fer, that wasn’t sitting right with me. But this seeming lack of somethingrather was actually just that I wasn’t in the mood for it. Not because I shouldn’t have been, but rather because of what I had been listening […]
atmospheric metal \ Christian Ward \ Colorado \ Denver \ experimental metal \ folk metal \ power metal \ prog metal \ progressive metal \ United States \ Vesperian
Dreadnought – Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light (Atmospheric Empyrean Prog Metal)
I judge bands on art and name. You usually can. So when along comes this one, naming themselves after a ship that itself is a word that means “fear nothing,” I expected my soul to be nourished by ethereal glory! Make me into a seraphim I command you! Make my skin shimmer in gold, […]
grindhouse \ IFC \ Rod Blackhurst \ Shudder \ slasher \ slasher film
Dolly (Grindhouse Killer Doll Slasher)
This is a film I went into blind. I found Dolly on Shudder randomly and watched it. Let me tell you that this was the way. Again, I don’t like slashers as much as most horror fans, but this one is a must see. To be fair, definitely not a masterpiece, but it’s new, […]
Czechia \ Dark Descent Records \ Me Saco un Ojo Records \ Skeleton Warrior \ Tomáš Mitura
Sněť – V Bažinách Vědomí (Deeply Rooted Blackened Gore Punk)
Yes, I finally figured out a name for the style of these sickos. Czechia’s Sněť have had my heart (sorry ladies) since I first heard their last full-length, and the romance continues with their latest offering, V Bažinách Vědomí. I could stop there but allow me to be partially verbose, if you please. Sněť, […]
Brvja XIII \ crypt metal \ Mexican \ Mexico \ Pablo Alejandro García Valdés \ Personal Records
Demonic Manifestation – Grimshrine (Surgical Crypt Metal)
Let me pull straight from the Personal Records promo email for the start of this one. Mexico’s Demonic Manifestation are driven “by a passion for extreme, pure, and honest music.” Forget the rest, because that’s the part that really matters right there. Yeah I could toss out old school, I could toss out death […]
black ambient \ dark ambient \ dark folk \ dark folk ambient \ dark folk black metal \ experimental black metal \ extreme ambient \ extreme metal \ United Kingdom
Wyrdstæf – Primordial Bloodlines (Primitive Nature Experimental Blackened Ambient Metal
Just when I think I can’t be surprised anymore along comes a group of freaks with a tested vision like Wyrdstæf, who completely defy so many different genres it’s fruitless to attempt to ground their music in anything. Dubbing themselves extreme metal/dark ambient (close enough), the band has done nothing other than an EP […]
atmospheric black metal \ Hammerheart Records \ Italy \ Marche \ Marchigian black metal \ medieval black metal \ occult black metal \ renaissance black metal
Hesperia – Picenum ~ True Marchigian Black Metal Renaissance ~ (Cantasoria Supreme)
The legendary fabulist of old has returned! I first heard word of Picenum ~ True Marchigian Black Metal Renaissance ~ (Christ) some months ago, having become a minor acquaintance of the man behind Italy’s Hesperia. I heaped praises on him before for his grandiose manner of storytelling through sound, but though I considered […]
blackened hardcore \ blackened thrash \ crossover \ dark fantasy \ death thrash \ Jerry Hionis \ Maryland \ Transcending Obscurity \ United States \ Wyrmwalk
Ninth Realm – Damnation’s Veil (Shirt Worthy Dark Fantasy Death Thrash)
I’m kind of surprised I apparently never heard of these guys until now, but they keep themselves pretty hidden. That or I suck at finding the good stuff (probably this, actually). Ninth Realm have been around for almost a decade, but the majority of their output has been demos and splits, with some the […]
Ingrid Helland \ Norway \ old school death metal \ Personal Records
Horrifier – Revelations of Gore (Death by a Thousand Cuts Norwegian Death Metal)
I remember all those years ago (a total of three) when I first heard Norway’s Horrifier. Messy as hell, with a pestilent bite to remind you to stay on guard. I didn’t feel entirely zombified by it, in fact it was almost overdriven to the point of bubbling noise at parts, but I observed […]
Buffalo \ death rock \ Goth \ Goth rock \ haunt n' roll \ Marc Schoenbach \ post-goth \ Sadist Art Designs \ United States
Cemetery Echo – Civitas Lacrimarum (Mercurial Haunt N’ Roll)
I suspected I would eventually get a good Goth, or at least Goth-adjacent, release at some point this year, and thankfully Buffalo’s Cemetery Echo answered my plaintive call. I don’t know what it is about the genre, but bands within the world of gloom are constantly stuck in recapitulation. I get it, sometimes what […]
