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Thunderkraft: Totentanz

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Thunderkraft: Totentanz

Uh oh, yep, that’s right, that’s a panzer on the cover.  And you know what that usually means, it’s not bringing an ounce of power, if anything it’s an Italian WWII tank you can take out by shoving a broom handle in its wheels.  Tank, generally, equals horrible when it comes to any style of […]

RMEDL/K11: Chthonian Music

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RMEDL/K11: Chthonian Music

Just when you think Cold Spring couldn’t possibly release anything darker than the dark he already has, he pulls something like this out.  Granted, Chthonian Music is actually a reissue of an extremely limited cut from 2010 (only 50 copies exist), but that doesn’t stop it from covering your world in darkness, and this is also in spite […]

Germ: Grief

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Germ: Grief

We’ve argued this point countless times by now.  You either go classic and do it right, which is apparently impossible for some bands, or you do something new, you do something original, something that excites and confronts.  If you can’t do either, we’ll be more than happy to toss scores of 1.5 and 2.5 your […]

Vortech: Devoid of Life

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Vortech: Devoid of Life

These guys, at the time of the writing of this review, have one of the goofiest Facebook header images ever.  So goofy and poorly shooped it looks like a fan page you hope no one notices.  Unfortunately, first impressions are usually 95% of the time correct, and it makes us open with phrases that lead […]

Netra: Sørbyen

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Netra: Sørbyen

Why the delay in the Sparrow reviews?  Are those guys a bunch of lazy punks around here or what?  Get with it.  In our defense, blame this album.  Sørbyen is one of the strangest things we’ve ever received, and that’s saying a ton because we’re used to it weird around here.  But Netra has crossed […]

Sloth Herder: Abandon Pop Sensibility

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Sloth Herder: Abandon Pop Sensibility

Funny story about Frederick, MD.  The reviewer who is penning this review here happens to be doing research for a novel partially based on a true story, part of which involves a man shooting his wife through the heart, who was originally from Frederick, like really, that part’s completely true.  After he killed her, and […]

Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

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Forgotten Tomb: …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil

One day, while looking for some depressing, suicidal, angst-spewing black metal, came across the name of Forgotten Tomb.  A tomb that is forgotten?  Does it get any more forlorn?  It would have to be both depressing and good, correct?  Yes, or make that more like yeeeeessssssss, well most of it.  …And Don’t Deliver Us From Evil marks […]

Torrid Husk: Caesious

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Torrid Husk: Caesious

Torrid Husk’s Caesious has every marking of mundane, and it doesn’t really make an effort to hide the fact.  The illegible, tree-like logo, the white, snowy, atmospheric artwork, it all screams ‘Weakling’, and you assume you’re most likely in for a treat of overrated black metal made by people who shouldn’t be anywhere near black […]

Symptoms of Sickness: S/T

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Symptoms of Sickness: S/T

Black and doom is a beautiful combination. It’s a great medium to channel melancholy and wrath with deep, resonating growls, heart-wrenching riffs, and moments of infinite suffering. It sounds easy to accomplish but by the small number of black/doom bands out there that have become successful, it really is not. Fortunately for you, it seems […]

Blackdeath: Phobos

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Blackdeath: Phobos

Blackdeath are a brother duo from St. Petersburg, Russia and play black metal with a dash of thrash and German lyrics about Satanism. Some may have heard of Blackdeath through their splits with more popular acts such as Horna, Leviathan (U.S.), and Mortifera. With kvlt and Lucifer in their calloused hearts, they have created Phobos, […]