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Belgium \ Bruges \ death doom \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ West Flanders
Gateway – Galgendood (WOW Cavernous Death Doom)
Wow. I mean wow. Like wow. More like WOW. Shit. Transcending Obscurity promos are usually always a solid. But, as you know, I reserve reviews on this site for the best of the best. Curated refuse, as it were. Our efforts are, now and again, supremely rewarded. I remember listening to Gateway before, I […]
Aesthetisk Art \ Frauenfeld \ morbid death metal \ Switzerland \ Thurgau \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ vomit metal
Vomitheist – NekroFvneral (Morbid Vomit Metal)
Man once that sick bass hits there’s not much else to say. “This is going to be great” would suffice. Obsessed with all things morbid, Switzerland’s Vomitheist have some of the greatest song titles and shirt designs I’ve ever seen. Everything about them is like a pile of guts. Just a big mess of […]
André Trindade \ CVSPE \ funeral doom \ funeral sludge \ Lower Silesia \ Poland \ sludge metal \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ Wrocław
71TONMAN – Of End Times (Absolute Funeral Sludge)
In spite of having one of the absolute worst band names I’ve ever heard of (seriously, come on guys wtf), 71TONMAN absolutely destroy, even though they bring it slow. Of End Times is my first exposure to their work, and, combining the drag of funeral doom combined with the edgier push of sludge, they […]
death metal \ Finland \ Mörtuus - Art \ Raúl Fuentes \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Sadistik Forest – Obscure Old Remains (Blasphemic Destruction Metal)
Oooooo those lovely Finns do it again with a touch of blasphemy, with a touch of spite, with a touch of… I mean not these guys in particular, just like any metal band from that country practically. Sadistik Forest has technically been around for some time, but didn’t hit full stride until about ten […]
atmospheric black metal \ Bacchus \ Greece \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Dødsferd – Skotos (It’s Greek Black Metal)
Hey, it’s Greek black metal! I’m not sure what else I can say beyond that but let’s give it a try. Dødsferd is one of Greece’s oldest black metal acts, and by virtue of that fact alone they already deserve to be at the front of the cavalry charge into the riff blizzard we […]
Lithuania \ Néstor Ávalos \ Néstor Avalos \ occult death metal \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Crypts of Despair – All Light Swallowed (Abyssal Death Metal)
This is…just good. I don’t know how else to say it. It’s good. Actually very good, so I can add at least that word to the review here to be more verbose. I can probably manage more than that, we’ll see. First off, congratulations to Crypts of Despair, because this is the first Lithuanian […]
California \ Gothic death metal \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ Zé Burnay
Sarcoptes – Plague Hymns (Two Bittersweet Tracks of Blackened Gothic Death Metal)
At first I thought there was something wrong with this promo. Two tracks of “death metal”, WTF? That’s practically single length, barely an EP in my books. But okay it’s an EP I guess. So here’s the thing about EPs. You have to prove yourself fast and hard or it’s all over. You hear […]
Brazil \ funeral sludge \ Mariusz Lewandowski \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Jupiterian – Protosapien (Nobody Will Ever Love You Funeral Sludge)
Some label heads just get it, you know? Like I don’t think I’ve ever been disappointed by a promo from Transcending Obscurity, even though I haven’t reviewed everything he’s sent me. Either way, doesn’t matter, because here and now we’re talking Jupiterian’s latest musical expression of skin sloughing off a depressed corpse, Protosapien. After […]
atmospheric funeral doom \ Bach \ classical doom metal \ Diego Spezzoni \ Italy \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Noctu – Gelidae Mortis Imago (Toccata in Funeral Doom)
There’s no tougher sell than funeral doom, let alone the type that goes this route with all of the symphonic nonsense. First you have its typica, extremely slow progression, and then if one risks tying in keyboard it’s bound to go Halloween spook in a few seconds, if even that long. But under the […]
blackened hardcore \ Croatia \ dead bird stuff \ post-hardcore \ Transcending Obscurity Records
Bednja – Doline Su Ostale Iza Nas (Dead Bird Blackened Hardcore)
Wow what is it with Transcending Obscurity Records hitting it out of the park recently? This is one of a few dead bird covers I’ve seen in recent promo emails, but Doline Su Ostale Iza Nas is the smashed avian object d’art I decided to review because Bednja might be the greatest thing to […]
