atmospheric metal \ Christian Ward \ Colorado \ Denver \ experimental metal \ folk metal \ power metal \ prog metal \ progressive metal \ United States \ Vesperian
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, […]
brutal death metal \ Colorado \ Denver \ ethereal death metal \ Guang Yang \ United States \ Vicious Instinct Records
This is almost something I wouldn’t have reviewed based on how it was introduced in the promo. The whole brutal death metal and slamming brutal death metal (is there a fooking difference, really?) is one of the most standardized concepts in the history of anything played with a guitar (heavily). And talk about redundant. […]
blackened death metal \ blackened doom metal \ Colorado \ Denver \ doom metal \ old school death metal
Now here’s an approach we could use more of: an empathetic, but not pathetic, consideration of mental illness. Not as an “oh so very scary crazy person” aesthetic, but one trapped in loneliness, depression, and all that good stuff that makes people creative in their desire for an escape from their own physical prison. […]
Colorado \ Denver \ holy shit so short \ noise punk \ powerviolence
After deciding against one of the albums I had in the queue for review this week I was like, man I need some punk you know? So I dug around and this one popped up out of an unmarked grave. Lol wow. I’m not even sure where to begin with it, even though in […]