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Lychgate – The Contagion in Nine Steps (Scholarly Metal)
Nice, that cover by the totally unknown Michael Guy is the perfect lead-in because I’ve been waiting to use the word ‘scholarly’ in reference to metal so I can feel like I’m above everyone else. Actually I already have presented myself as such, but this makes it official, and I should get an honorary […]
black metal \ California \ death metal \ experimental death metal \ Leviathan \ Los Angeles \ Our Place of Worship is Silence \ Translation Loss Records \ we're so elite \ Wrest
Our Place of Worship is Silence – With Inexorable Suffering (Already Out of Space)
You know when the band’s name and album title have taken up nearly your entire post title and take more than a minute to write it’s not going to be good. It just reeks of that sticky, foul kind of pretentiousness that ruins far too many bands. Note to those who dare tread this path, if […]
black metal \ Folter Records \ Germany \ Misanthropic Art \ Schrat \ wow German
Schrat – Alptraumgänger (Wow 100% German Black Metal)
Man, great art, yeah, love Misanthropic Art. And this is one of the more clever RPG terms-turned-band-name I’ve seen. WTF you talking about, asks the band. The closest translation in English we have of Schrat is “bugbear,” you know, that thing from Dungeons & Dragons? Yeah, I get it, it’s old folklore and such, but […]
black metal \ experimental \ experimental metal \ noise metal \ post-black metal \ Reverorum ib Malacht \ STFU title's too long metal \ suck metal \ Sweden
Reverorum ib Malacht – Im Ra Distare (STFU Title’s Too Long)
I’m, so sick of the hype surrounding this album and I’m going to be as brief as possible, but trust me, it’s goddamn hard not to go off. Practically the only reason I’m reviewing it is because people just can’t STFU about it. I don’t even really like the cover. Oh, wow, some anti-Christian […]
20 Buck Spin \ black metal \ death metal \ doom metal \ Finland \ Finnish death metal \ Ghastly \ Riikka Pesonen
Ghastly – Death Velour (Finnish Death Metal Tho)
Man that Finnish death metal sound. How I forgot! How I could go on about it forever, though this is only the second band in memory I liked from Finland. Out of any country plugging the death metal hole till bursting, Sweden is the one that consistently gets the attention. Not because it’s all so good, […]
Abhor \ black metal \ church organ black metal \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Italy \ lol black metal \ occult black metal. old school black metal
Abhor – Occulta religiO (1920s Organ-Grinder Metal)
I love this cover, just love it. But my love stops there. because I had heard of Abhor before, and I wasn’t excited then, still not very excited now. In the past they were the usual “true Norwegian” type of black metal, only not from Norway. But they’ve been around since 1995, an impressive […]
Australia \ black metal \ blackened death metal \ Blood Harvest Records \ death metal \ Luciana Nedelea \ Polish though \ VAHRZAW
VAHRZAW – Husk (Like Warsaw But Less Metal)
Good one guys, going with the spelling variant on a Slavic city, in this case Warsaw, or at least I assumed that was the idea (I was wrong). And since just everyone is talking about it, let’s consider for a second that scray [sic] art by the oh-so-great Luciana Nedelea, whose work you’ve probably encountered quite a […]
black metal \ death metal \ England \ Great Britain \ Luke Oram \ not really anything \ not really sludge metal \ sludge metal \ Slugdge \ United Kingdom \ Willowtip Records
Slugdge – Esoteric Malacology (Don’t Trick Me Please)
I’ve got a great idea for a horror film title, get this: When Things Get Pretentious. It’s only going to scare true underground junkies (autocrats if you forgot the term), but it will be absolutely terrifying. You are about to witness, a film, about how the best and most cutting-edge of sounds can become, horribly pompous. That can […]
Australia \ black metal \ chaos metal \ Grave Upheaval \ I'm so cool for listening metal \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Nuclear War Now! Productions \ PORTAL metal \ weird metal \ WTF metal
Grave Upheaval (Can’t Translate the Title Metal)
It’s hard to not like a band with a name like Grave Upheaval. Plenty of bands have used the word “grave,” but this one is far more powerful. Cemetery references are pretty stock now, but an upheaval, damn. This isn’t like defacing a single grave, it isn’t like committing sacrilege over a grave, this is an upheaval, like […]
black metal \ doom metal \ LOWERED \ Nicola Samorì \ Oregon \ Portland \ pray your life away \ smile goddamn it \ Throne Records
LOWERED – S/T (Surprise Gimme A Smile Metal)
I love surprises. Not like “oh it’s my birthday today I forgot,” I mean things that come out of nowhere and just make you smile goddamn it. Since I rarely receive hardcopy submissions anymore my surprises come in the form of email promos with great art and music that just makes you smile goddamn it. You wouldn’t […]
