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death doom \ doom sludge \ Form Terror Growth \ Fred Grabosky \ raw death metal \ Rotted Life Records \ sludge metal \ United States \ Virginia \ Virginia Beach
Night Hag – Great Dismal Darkness (Uliginous Death Sludge Doom)
I was really frikken pissed this week bros, swear to God. The number of promos I went through was astounding. I lost goddamn count. From the overly theatrical to the deathly average, to, even worse, the pretentious pseudo-terror punk that you know can’t back up its talk… All of it lacking, all of it […]
atmospheric metal \ Christian Ward \ Colorado \ Denver \ experimental metal \ folk metal \ power metal \ prog metal \ progressive metal \ United States \ Vesperian
Dreadnought – Wars of Spirit // Wards of Light (Atmospheric Empyrean Prog Metal)
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, […]
blackened hardcore \ blackened thrash \ crossover \ dark fantasy \ death thrash \ Jerry Hionis \ Maryland \ Transcending Obscurity \ United States \ Wyrmwalk
Ninth Realm – Damnation’s Veil (Shirt Worthy Dark Fantasy Death Thrash)
I’m kind of surprised I apparently never heard of these guys until now, but they keep themselves pretty hidden. That or I suck at finding the good stuff (probably this, actually). Ninth Realm have been around for almost a decade, but the majority of their output has been demos and splits, with some the […]
Buffalo \ death rock \ Goth \ Goth rock \ haunt n' roll \ Marc Schoenbach \ post-goth \ Sadist Art Designs \ United States
Cemetery Echo – Civitas Lacrimarum (Mercurial Haunt N’ Roll)
I suspected I would eventually get a good Goth, or at least Goth-adjacent, release at some point this year, and thankfully Buffalo’s Cemetery Echo answered my plaintive call. I don’t know what it is about the genre, but bands within the world of gloom are constantly stuck in recapitulation. I get it, sometimes what […]
Adam Yates \ candid death metal \ Everlasting Spew Records \ Minneapolis \ Minnesota \ occult death metal \ Technical Death Metal \ United States
Nothingness – Godslaughter (Candid Occult Death Metal)
Need some power for the day? Or perhaps the week? Need it to come (as a friend of mine said) with some muddiness, yet while retaining enough clarity that the main chunk of the sound is never hidden? Or as the artwork above suggests, want to splatter your face with sound? Now that I’ve […]
Memento Mori \ Milwaukee \ raw death metal \ stygian death metal \ Tony Capodilupo \ United States \ vile death metal \ Wisconsin
Horrid Mass – Nauseating Ecstatic Degeneration (Stygian Death Metal)
Sometimes, death metal bands get way too verbose. I suppose it’s a method for hiding a lack of skill. It’s like a thing, or rather a trope, that’s been around for ages now, and at this point it’s more of a trick to avoid the obvious fact that most band suck. Toss in some […]
Dan Goldsworthy \ death \ death thrash \ Exhumed \ Gruesome \ Gus Rios \ Mantas \ Matt Harvey \ old school death metal \ old school thrash \ Relapse Records \ Rick Rozz \ Terry Butler \ United States
Left to Die – Initium Mortis (Epitaphic Epigraphic Death Thrash)
“Respect one’s elders” is a maxim repeated ad nauseum all over the world, and in the metal community it takes high importance today with this unique release, Initium Mortis. Now, experienced fans will immediately recognize in the logo of Left to Die clear references to the band Death, as well as one of their […]
blackened death metal \ blackened punk \ Carbonized Records \ Chris Taylor \ Cris Crude \ death punk \ United States \ Washington DC
Goetia – Mortuary Cult (Savage Blackened Death Punk)
I was at a loss recently, because the majority of promos were just terrible. This might be one of the worst weeks on record for me, but it’s just the luck of the sucky draw. I was down to a few, but in the end the final review we have today to end off […]
Baltimore \ Brad Moore \ death speed \ death thrash \ Maryland \ Rotted Life Records \ speed thrash \ United States
Nuclear Tomb – Epoch Inhumane (Almost Ineffable Death Thrash)
I was the opposite of a fan of Nuclear Tomb when I received their last full-length, Terror Labyrinthian, for review. It was, quite simply, inchoate. Even the art was drab and undeveloped. So imagine my surprise, or perhaps lack thereof, when two years later I find, with Epoch Inhumane, they’re closer to ineffable. I […]
bestial black metal \ bestial death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States
Diabolic Oath – Unholy Barbaric Hymns (Bestial Blackened Death Metal of Pure Beast)
I just love Sentient Ruin Laboratories. Everything dude releases sounds something like this, but it never tires, it never ages, it remains robust in spite of similarities and in spite of continuing, confidently, on the same path. Feeble? Never. For he truly knows how to dig deep into the blackness, pulling out great sources […]
