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Alexander Shadrin \ Columbus \ Morkh \ NetherTemple Design \ Ohio \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States \ war metal \ werewolf metal
You know, I’ve seen the werewolf theme used quite a bit in metal, in a variety of genres too. Sometimes it’s cheese, sometimes it’s sleaze, mostly, just please. Rarely does it offer a band a chance at greatness, it’s kind of too golden age to work as I’ve seen it mainly presented, but, well, […]
AA \ black industrial \ black noise \ death industrial \ death noise \ MA \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Now here’s a damn fine contrast to the review I just posted. From gloom pop to this. So first I lament the fact I don’t get enough gloom and dark pop, and here we are with something else I don’t get a lot of, or at least usually not good, black and/or dark industrial. […]
blackened hardcore \ blackened punk \ death punk \ Logan Nuebauten \ Matt Plunkett \ New Jersey \ raw death punk \ Rio Oka \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States \ Washington DC
Whelp, I died. Another Sentient Ruin smacker. I pretty much guessed that, though, without even scoping the label. Xeroxed cover from a rotted-on-the-insides dumpster nuclear fire? Yep, musical summary right there folks, another example of my “see that cover, this sounds like that” intro. Even better, though, is how the overlapping of lines makes […]
bestial death metal \ blackened death metal \ California \ Goat Throne Records \ Sacramento \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Silvia Palmeroni \ Stygian Black Hand \ United States \ war metal
Well get ready to consume this one at face fooking value. A multitude of upside-down crosses hide within a festering logo above an image that summarizes the album title below. What’s this one like? Well it’s a Climax of Disgusting Impurities! What else? Honestly though, the face on that child-like goat being is freaking […]
Abomination Hammer \ death grind \ Oregon \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States
Crap has it really been three years since I reviewed something from Sentient Ruin Laboratories? Not sure how that happened… Sorry bro. Actually I don’t think I dug any of the art until now, and also also I was super behind on promos some months ago and basically just deleted everything to start tabula […]
abhorrent black metal \ BMS Illustration \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Norway \ ritualistic black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
Sometimes I wonder how black metal can do the same old thing, but here I go again with that oft-stated conundrum. It’s the same thing with classic hardcore, punk, and the like. There’s always the typical, and that’s what pretty much runs the genre as a whole. But jeez, I say, why can’t more […]
Everlasting Spew Records \ Finland \ funeral doom \ Misanthropic Art \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
So yeah yet again I’m convinced that this type of doom needs to hit with everything it’s got. You want a funeral, make it sound like one without the silliness. The slowness, the trudging steps, the abject suffering. It has to hit and hit well to succeed. Slow itself is not enough. It needs […]
death metal \ Jason Barnett \ Memento Mori \ Oregon \ Petrification \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
It’s that time of year where I just need a little bit of this. Mainly because I hate poplar trees, see there’s one outside of my house and I just want to chop it the hell down. A tree joke? I’m not sure the band thought so hard about their name, see. The process of trees turning […]
Assumption \ death metal \ doom metal \ Everlasting Spew Records \ floating guy equals you \ Italy \ Lauri Laaksonen \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories
What a curious name for a metal band. I can tell you I had several assumptions about this before going into it, like it was probably black metal. Bad assumption, but it was definitely dark and depressing, which is assumed further by the doom/death tag these guys from Italy carry. Uh oh, it’s an Italian metal band […]
american \ black metal \ experimental \ Fragile Branch \ noise \ noise metal \ post-black metal \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Shove Records \ sludge \ the tears I shed are many \ United States \ Virginia
Facebook was begging me to post something for all of you because I haven’t been. This album is why. Now and then I get hit, hard, by a revelation. Here it is. Sometimes people accept goodness on what everyone else says and assume the opinion as their own. When I first knew that american was […]