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blackened crossover \ blackened sludge \ North Carolina \ Raleigh \ southern sludge \ United States
Noctomb S/T (Wait There’s More, Southern Blackened Sludge)
Hmm. Well. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a band as versatile as this in any genre. I also like that these guys are from Raleigh, NC, because the scene there has always been this weird mid-level thing for the underground. Not unusual, since it is a college domain, and the expected indie market […]
bestial death metal \ blackened death metal \ California \ Goat Throne Records \ Sacramento \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ Silvia Palmeroni \ Stygian Black Hand \ United States \ war metal
Abhorrency – Climax of Disgusting Impurities (Bestial Violation Blackened Death Metal)
Well get ready to consume this one at face fooking value. A multitude of upside-down crosses hide within a festering logo above an image that summarizes the album title below. What’s this one like? Well it’s a Climax of Disgusting Impurities! What else? Honestly though, the face on that child-like goat being is freaking […]
Ed Repka \ flogging death metal \ Indiana \ Indianapolis \ Redefining Darkness Records \ United States
Flesher – Tales of Grotesque Demise (Soaky Bath Bomb Flogging Death Metal)
Ready for a lame analogy of an intro? This is like a soaky bomb in steaming water with candles to a fan of death metal. An album that relaxes for its familiarity and calms the mind of a death metal fan. “Ah, there it is, I remember it,” you say. For this phenomenon to […]
atmospheric black metal \ Bharatadanu \ Iron Bonehead Productions \ Pennsylvania \ phantasmal black metal \ United States
Luring – Triumphant Fall of the Malignant Christ (Phantasmal Atmospheric Black Metal)
Ahhhh breathe in that atmosphere. I’ve honed my tastes over the past few years and this is proof. Actually, make that a decade or longer. Fact is I receive so much stuff I’ve heard practically everything imaginable. And I’ve said it a number of times, black metal can rarely wake me up, let alone […]
Chaos Records \ Chase Slaker \ existential death metal \ Seattle \ United States \ Washington
Cystic – Palace of Shadows (Existential Death Metal)
I think I encountered this, at least once before, where an album sounds like garbagio on headphones. Perhaps it’s time to realize my Ghostbusters headphones aren’t exactly, well, stereo quality… Anyway, these guys blast on a system, even PC speakers, so we’ll forget about that. Now that we got the dripping death metal out […]
dripping death metal \ old school death metal \ Oregon \ Portland \ Satanik Royalty Records \ T. Kannibalet Hietomaa Art \ Toni Hietomaa \ United States
Dripping Decay – Festering Grotesqueries (Truly Dripping Old School Death Metal)
Not much else to expect from a band naming themselves Dripping Decay, than, well, exactly that! I love it when artists immerse themselves in an idea, and these guys are completely covered in stuff that drips. Their logo drips, their artwork drips, and the music, yes, it drips. Their “mascot” is even named ‘Drippy,’ […]
brutal death metal \ Colorado \ Denver \ ethereal death metal \ Guang Yang \ United States \ Vicious Instinct Records
Djinn-Ghül – Opulence (Brutal Ethereal Death Metal)
This is almost something I wouldn’t have reviewed based on how it was introduced in the promo. The whole brutal death metal and slamming brutal death metal (is there a fooking difference, really?) is one of the most standardized concepts in the history of anything played with a guitar (heavily). And talk about redundant. […]
Abomination Hammer \ death grind \ Oregon \ Portland \ Sentient Ruin Laboratories \ United States
Disimperium – Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars (Volcanic Death Grind)
Crap has it really been three years since I reviewed something from Sentient Ruin Laboratories? Not sure how that happened… Sorry bro. Actually I don’t think I dug any of the art until now, and also also I was super behind on promos some months ago and basically just deleted everything to start tabula […]
Boston \ Caligari Records \ Calvin Cushman \ Massachusetts \ oozing death metal \ United States
Grotesqueries – Vile Crematory (Atrocious Oozing Death Metal)
Now it’s time for some ooze. Some rotting carcass ooze. That stuff that leaks out of coffins after so many years and is so completely corrosive it bores a hole in the vault in which the coffin lies to finally poison everything around it. Animals in the soil, insects, your water. Just atrocious. Now […]
Brian Knapp \ cybergoth \ cyberpunk \ Grand Rapids \ Michigan \ post-industrial \ United States
Lazer Station – MEGABOMB SOUND SYSTEM VOL. 1 (Post-Industrial Cybergoth)
Yay I’m on an industrial kick this week thanks to Bandcamp tagging! After that last one I was hoping to find something more traditional, and here we go. Mixing old style with modern post-industrial, cybergoth, and other things of the electronic dark, Lazer Station was a welcome surprise in a landscape otherwise densely populated […]
