Runespell is a solo black metal band from Australia, and this is his third album.
I’ve enjoyed both Unhallowed Blood Oath and Order of Vengeance, and now this new album, hot on the heels of the previous one, has arrived to sate my never-ending thirst for black metal. Continue reading “Runespell – Voice of Opprobrium (Review)”
Pinewalker are from the US and play sludge metal. This is their debut album.
Exploring the darkness of loss and the emotional impact/response of/to this, Migration contains 44 minutes of music that bares its soul as well as its fangs. Continue reading “Pinewalker – Migration (Review)”
This is the debut album from Horrific Demise, a death metal band from the US.
Made by experienced hands, (current and ex-members of Lividity, Gorgasm, Sarcophagy, Necrotic Disgorgement, and others), that clearly love their work, Excruciating Extermination contains 31 minutes of brutal death metal. Continue reading “Horrific Demise – Excruciating Extermination (Review)”
This is the debut album from Canadian black metallers Eclipser.
This is black metal played with dark brutality and dissonant intensity. It’s a blackened hybrid that focuses more on black metal than anything else, but still finds time to incorporate death metal elements into itself with a voracious hunger. It’s Continue reading “Eclipser – Pathos (Review)”
This is the third album from US solo blackened doom band Mizmor, or מזמור.
Providing a lethal concoction of black metal, funeral doom, and drone across 57 minutes, this album is a harrowing and affecting journey into lost faith and existential crisis. It’s powerful, and an album that is clearly special upon even the first listen; repeated visits merely reinforce how exceptional it is. Continue reading “Mizmor (מזמור) – Cairn (Review)”
This is the second album from Aludra, a black metal band from the US.
This is cosmic-themed black metal, raw and hostile. The album features the vocalist of Ancient Hostility, and her piercing shrieks ring out from the music in streaks of colourless power. Her performance is enjoyable and forceful, providing the songs Continue reading “Aludra – Mass Stellar Graves (Review)”
Devourment are a death metal band from the US and this is their fifth album.
Mixing brutal, old-school death metal with slam, Obscene Majesty is disgustingly heavy and ferociously nasty. Continue reading “Devourment – Obscene Majesty (Review)”
This is the third album from The Fifth Alliance, a doom/post-metal/sludge band from the Netherlands.
2015’s Death Poems impressed, but the band’s new album seems set to do even more than this. Continue reading “The Fifth Alliance – The Depth of the Darkness (Review)”
Unmensch is a one-man Belgian black metal band and this is his debut album.
Scorn contains 49 minutes of old-school black metal that almost sounds like it could have come straight out of the second wave in the 90s. Continue reading “Unmensch – Scorn (Review)”
Wizard Rifle are a US sludge band and this is their third album.
Wizard Rifle are a band that mixes together doom and sludge metal with psychedelic, noise, and progressive rock, creating songs that twist and turn with virile life. A rough approximation of their sound would be a cross between Melvins, Electric Wizard, and Mastodon. Sort of. Continue reading “Wizard Rifle – Wizard Rifle (Review)”
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