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Anaïs Chareyre-Méjan \ atmospheric black metal \ Belfast \ blackened shoegaze \ blackgaze \ Ireland \ Northern Ireland \ post-blackgaze \ post-shoegaze \ These Hands Melt \ United Kingdom
Domhain – Nimue (Blackgaze Dirges for the Sullen)
This is a debut? Amazing. It almost seems not in the realm of possibilities. I’ve heard many attempts at this kind of thing, and I hate genre-tagging criticism, but man there’s a lot of stuff in here. Shoegaze, blackgaze, blackmetal, atmospheric metal, post-metal, doom metal, folk metal, dark folk, post-shoegaze, damn it almost sounds […]
Bedford \ death doom \ England \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Mark Riddick \ Memento Mori \ Podkarpackie \ Poland \ Sanok \ Staszów \ United Kingdom \ Watford
Eternal Rot – Moribound (Zombified Grooving Death Doom)
Here’s a band that remains the same yet sounds…different? Explain this to me, boys. Having reviewed Eternal Rot’s last one, Putridarium, and seeing the same style of art by the same artist (Mark Riddick), I expected, naturally, more of the same. Zombified, grooving death and doom, that’s what I mean. Dripping. Slipping. Sticking? And […]
blackened crust \ blackened hardcore \ Deborah Sheedy \ England \ London \ post-black metal \ post-blackened crust \ Prosthetic Records \ Trepanation Recordings \ United Kingdom
Calligram – Position | Momentum (Post-Blackened Crust)
Am I in the mood for post-black metal with a little of that blackened hardcore and a touch of the crust? Sure, why not? I’m in a good mood. Plus, don’t really seem to be easily accessible reviews out there, so let’s start the process for the good boys in Calligram, who appear to […]
England \ epic power metal \ fantasy power metal \ Hampshier \ power metal \ Prosthetic Records \ Southampton \ Stan-W Decker \ Stanislas W. Decker \ United Kingdom
Battle Born – Blood, Fire, Magic and Steel (Fantasy Power Metal of the Fantastical Kind)
It seems I only review power metal when the band has like a quadshmillion fans. I try not to, and I’m probably wrong, but maybe it’s true. Well, whatever, though I prefer bands with lower exposure there’s a reason a fan count gets that high, and it’s not vapidity. Sometimes fans are just correct. […]
Chris Kiesling \ death metal \ Misanthropic Art \ Misanthropic-Art \ Redefining Darkness Records \ Spain \ United Kingdom
Undead – Putrefactio (Nu-Death Metal, Actually Not Just Kidding)
This is a good example of a band that takes itself way too seriously in group photos, but once you listen to it you say “damn it to hell if you don’t deserve to act that way.” Light corpse paint, scary faces, grim stares, leaning (gasp) towards nu-metal aesthetic, I mean come on! Should […]
Dark Descent Records \ England \ Invictus Productions \ London \ occult death metal \ Santiago Caruso \ United Kingdom
Qrixkuor – Zoetrope (Occult Death Metal for Chaotic Connoisseurs)
I see one long track as an album or EP and I’m like yeah this shit’s going to have something to say. And yes, Qrixkuor is such a band and this is such an album, or rather EP. More of an experience perhaps, or just a long ass song even, Zoetrope is a spinning […]
dissonant black metal \ Godz Ov War Productions \ Greece \ Maximos Manolis \ United Kingdom
Amaltheia – S/T (Straight Outta Nowhere Dissonant Black Metal)
Boy this was a tough week for promos in the sense that I received a shit ton of them over the past month. Most of those were easy to scrap because of crud art or blah sound, but a particularly fine selection came from Polish powerhouse Godz Ov War Productions. Unfortunately I can only […]
Complete Fiction Pictures \ Edgar Wright \ Film4 Productions \ Focus Features \ Perfect World Pictures \ psychological horror \ United Kingdom \ Universal Pictures \ Working Title Films
Last Night in Soho (Most Overhyped Film of 2021)
When the patron saint of gimmicky editing announced a giallo-inspired horror movie, film bros collectively squealed. Following prestige festival screenings, Last Night in Soho opened wide in the U.S. just in time for Halloween. The good news: Edgar Wright has reined in his showy style. The bad news: the film wants to be a […]
blackened death metal \ Daniel Valeriani \ Dark Descent Records \ England \ London \ United Kingdom
Lvcifyre – The Broken Seal (Monolithic Apocalyptic Serpent Metal)
Phew now here is something solid. I mean, I expect that out of the recent vanguard of English metal freaks, but still here’s another to add to the slowly-growing horde. Lvcifyre have been melting death metal into their own weapon for over a decade now, but their releases have been more sporadic and careful […]
grindcore \ mathcore \ Nick Povey \ powerviolence \ Prosthetic Records \ United Kingdom
Pupil Slicer – Mirrors (Powerviolence Mathcore and Grind with a Purpose)
Ah so glad I received this so everyone can STFU that I don’t review music of this type. I just rarely get the good stuff. How many times do I have to say that? I guess every time since people tend to stop here once in their life for that one thing they heard […]
