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basement black metal \ Crown and Throne Ltd. \ Massachusetts \ raw black metal \ Sienna Langone \ United States \ USBM \ yamasden
Unholy Vampyric Slaughter Sect (The World Trapped in Vampyric Sway (Darker and Darker)) (Damn Dude Took My Parenthesis Joke)
I changed the art on this using the original piece that makes up the finished cover, which for some reason was reduced to B/W and just a total mess, but hey, that's what happens in basement black metal, or BBM, this being the US variety, or USBBM I guess we'll say from now on. […]
funeral doom \ Kishor Haulenbeek \ Massachusetts \ United States
Vacant Eyes – A Somber Preclusion of Being (Turgid Funeral Doom)
Oh I fooled you with the subtitle of this review lol. Hey, since Vacant Eyes were being wordy, I figured I'd be wordy, even though what our subtitle today implies is their wordiness is a defect. That's just like a joke man. In fact, it's all in good praise. A Somber Preclusion of Being […]
Brouemaster Visual Decay \ death metal \ Florida \ Maxime Tremblay \ Redefining Darkness Records \ United States
Fleshdriver – Leech (Almost Tiresome Death Metal)
Well, here's a release that almost wears out its welcome but manages to press a smile into your cheeks anyway. Carrying on the tradition of Floridian death metal come Fleshdriver, a drum and guitar tag team that, to date, have but two singles and Leech, a demo, to their name. For lacking bass and […]
Matt Stikker \ Oregon \ Portland \ post-black metal \ Translation Loss Records \ United States
Drouth – Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy (Black Metal Manifest)
Wow, I ended up liking this one more than I expected. Leave it to US black metal to excite me again, after months and months of drudgery. I was getting sick of the snowstorm tremolo, the corpse paint no one remembers the purpose of anymore, the lo-fi " but that's how it's supposed to […]
Aqualamb Recordings \ Cleveland \ doom metal \ doomgaze \ Lay Bare Recordings \ Ohio \ post-metal \ United States \ wow so vast
Frayle – 1692 (Bitter Doom for the Broken Soul)
Most doom is satisfied thematically with smoking or taking drugs, tossing tabletop RPG dice, witch stuff, or plain sloth. They don't hide it, either, and with a simple name or cover you know exactly what to expect and you're both disappointed and not. But as of late female-fronted doom has been a particular favorite […]
AD&D \ beholder shit \ blackened death metal \ Blood Harvest Records \ California \ one-dude metal \ role-playing metal lol wut \ RPG \ United States
Xantam – Altered State (AD&D Blackened Death Metal)
Is it a thing that bands starting with "Xa" are one dude? Total exaggeration on my part, because only Xasthur comes to mind, but now there's Xantam. Maybe I'm on to something... Anyway, so clearly there's an AD&D obsession here, because one, dude's got a beholder on both of his releases (this and a […]
death metal \ hooded ear infection \ Misanthropic Art \ Texas \ Transcending Obscurity Records \ Trench Warfare \ United States
Trench Warfare – Hatred Prayer (Ear Infection Death Metal)
It's easy to start back up after a vacation where I got a double ear infection (inner and middle, both ears) with some filthy death metal that sounds just like that. Actually listened to this one quite a bit before I left for that fateful, poisonous trip, so it seems fitting to return with […]
blackened death metal \ Deadtapes \ death metal \ Drawn and Quartered \ Gabriel Byrne \ Krucyator Productions \ like WTF am I looking at \ Seattle \ United States
Drawn and Quartered – The One Who Lurks (WTF Am I Looking At Metal)
Boy did I sit on this one a long time. I mean, yeah, we sit on stuff a long time in general, but this is different because hard copy submissions, provide we will review them in the first place, have always gotten priority. Why you break your own rules? My excuse is I listened […]
Construct of Lethe \ Everlasting Spew Records \ thesaurs metal \ United States \ Virginia
Construct of Lethe – Exiler (Pretentious Thesaurus Metal)
So here’s the thing, Construct of Lethe know exactly what they are doing musically. And by that, I mean they have such a refined ear for composition, recording, and compelling melody. They don’t just stop at the melodic death metal drudge and drear and are clearly interested in pushing their sound into a musically […]
death metal \ Master Lee \ Sweden \ The Grotesquery \ United States \ werewolf metal \ werewolves \ WTF \ Xtreem Music
The Grotesquery – The Lupine Anathema (Big Words For Werewolves)
I'm trying to think of the last time I experienced werewolves and death metal coming together for a love child. Maybe it never happened, but I feel like it had to at some point. Well, if not, or if it did and I forgot, time for some new memories. The members of The Grotesquery are separated […]