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Wyrdstæf – Primordial Bloodlines (Primitive Nature Experimental Blackened Ambient Metal
Just when I think I can’t be surprised anymore along comes a group of freaks with a tested vision like Wyrdstæf, who completely defy so many different genres it’s fruitless to attempt to ground their music in anything. Dubbing themselves extreme metal/dark ambient (close enough), the band has done nothing other than an EP […]
Blu-ray \ folklore \ Hammer \ Hammer Horror \ Hammer Studios \ horror Blu-ray \ Scream Factory \ United Kingdom \ zombie \ zombies
The Plague of the Zombies (Real Folkloric Zombie Mayhem)
Amazing, a zombie film that embraces the use of the term “zombie.” I thought they were extinct! When did calling the undead “zombies” become a cuss word in cinema? Writers treat it like the plague (pun intended). Seriously though, the 1966 Hammer production (reproduced by Scream Factory on Blu-Ray, which is how I accessed […]
bestial punk \ blackened punk \ Caligari Records \ death punk \ speed punk \ United Kingdom
ÄXE – Autogeddon (Bestial Speed Punk)
Ironic usage of an umlaut equals unironic mastery of a genre. Now, of course, the umlaut phenomenon is primarily within the realm of metal, and a theme so reused one wonders if any letters are left to dot. Has the A been blessed with the sacred bits? Certainly, but here the redundancy is avoided […]
Edinburgh \ graybeard \ Kris Glennon \ mathcore \ post-hardcore \ post-mathcore \ Ripcord Records \ United Kingdom
Kakihara – Love Songs Part 2 (Graybeard Post-Mathcore)
I haven’t had something like this in awhile, at least that I enjoyed, to be specific. But it’s a hard market to really catch attention in the post-hardcore, post-mathcore, post-whatevercore swamp. I guess that’s the case with any genre, but metalheads seem more willing to permit experimentation and at least try to accept it, […]
krautcore \ krautsludge \ London \ Marco Imov \ post-hardcore \ post-hardcore punk \ post-punk \ post-sludge \ sludge punk \ United Kingdom
Predeceased – Weirdo Riffers (Post-Punk Krautsludge)
Damn I had no way of figuring out a special genre for this one, so take what I put up there and love it. Further, here’s that old conundrum of mine. I don’t like reviewing stuff that’s already been released, but we have a special case here so hear me out. Predeceased have a […]
Bruno Fusco \ dungeon punk \ England \ United Kingdom \ Wolves of Hades
Final Dose – Under the Eternal Shadow (Dungeon Punk)
I thought this band was obsessed with drugs or something, because how else are you supposed to read “Final Dose?” Apologies, but I didn’t see the art yet and that was just in the email’s subject line. Well, I found out pretty quick it was a final dose of punishment. It became clear I […]
Belial NecroArts \ blackened death metal \ bloody death metal \ Dark Descent Records \ Nuno Zuki \ United Kingdom
Adorior – Bleed on My Teeth (Female-Fronted Bloody and Blackened Death Metal)
Goddamn. You often hear the buzzwords “female-fronted metal,” but what does that actually mean? So there’s a woman in there somewhere, got it. Why point it out? Well, often, it’s simply because women in metal are not as visible as men. Okay, got it. But here’s the problem I often find with this. Apologies […]
Hells Headbangers \ Necroeucharist Productions \ Necrolatry Records \ Scotland \ United Kingdom
Caustic Phlegm – Putrefying Flesh (Putrid Intestinal Leak Death Metal)
There’s not much one needs to do to describe a band called Caustic Phlegm. They’re going to be caustic, and there’s going to be much phlegm expelled. The Xerox rot cover further exemplifies the sputum. With as short as I can be on descriptions, this release itself is short, being a reissued demo on […]
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 […]
