This is the fourth album from Belgian post-metal band Briqueville.
IIII contains 39 minutes of dark, enigmatic music. Briqueville’s style is deeply atmospheric, and IIII is the sort of album that will drag you into the darkness as it hypnotises with its shifting walls of rich mood. Continue reading “Briqueville – IIII (Review)”
This is the ninth album form legendary US death metallers Suffocation.
Hymns from the Apocrypha contains 41 minutes of brutality; eight new songs and a rerecording of Ignorant Deprivation, (featuring original Suffocation singer Frank Mullen), from 1993’s Breeding the Spawn. Continue reading “Suffocation – Hymns from the Apocrypha (Review)”
This is the third album from Belgian death metallers Carnation.
Carnation made a mark with 2018’s Chapel of Abhorrence and 2020’s Where Death Lies, so checking out what Cursed Mortality had to offer was mandatory. It seems like each Carnation album gets tighter and more refined, and Cursed Mortality is their most streamlined album yet – eight songs in a lean 35 minutes. Continue reading “Carnation – Cursed Mortality (Review)”
This is the second album from US metalcore band Dying Wish.
2021’s Fragments of a Bitter Memory was a solid slab of 00s-style metalcore, so Symptoms of Survival is one that I know I wanted to check out. Boasting a lean, mean 32 minutes of new material, in what form do we find Dying Wish’s 2023 offering? Continue reading “Dying Wish – Symptoms of Survival (Review)”
Closet Witch are a grindcore band from the US and this is their second album.
Sometimes, you just need to GRIIIIIINNNND. But not just any kind of grind; no, sometimes you need to grind and burn with the sort of visceral, idiosyncratic grind that leaves scars. For times like that, you have a band like Closet Witch. Continue reading “Closet Witch – Chiaroscuro (Review)”
This is the third album from French black metallers Pénitence Onirique.
Following on from 2016’s V.I.T.R.I.O.L. and 2019’s Vestige comes Nature Morte; 46 minutes of glorious celestial violence and deep immersive feeling. Oh my, this is a good one. Continue reading “Pénitence Onirique – Nature Morte (Review)”
This is the sixth album from US doom band Vanishing Kids.
Miracle of Death offers up 42 minutes of luscious Gothic doom, sprinkled with psychedelia, shoegaze, and oceans of atmosphere. It’s an absorbing listen, one that showcases the style and personality of Vanishing Kids in the best of lights. Continue reading “Vanishing Kids – Miracle of Death (Review)”
This is the second album from Swiss solo black metal act Impalement.
Blending together black and death metal into 41 minutes of dark malevolence and infernal might, The Dawn of Blackened Death is an album of powerful presence. Continue reading “Impalement – The Dawn of Blackened Death (Review)”
Flesh of the Stars are from the US and play doom metal. This is their fifth album.
Flesh of the Stars are a band that I always enjoy catching up with. 2015’s Hide, 2017’s Anhilla, and 2019’s Mercy are all albums worthy of your time, and the same is true of their new record, The Glass Garden, doubly so in fact. Continue reading “Flesh of the Stars – The Glass Garden (Review)”
This is the fifth album from US black metal band Wayfarer.
After such a strong run of albums – 2014’s Children of the Iron Age, 2016’s Old Souls, 2018’s World’s Blood, and 2020’s A Romance with Violence – expectations are high for American Gothic. Continue reading “Wayfarer – American Gothic (Review)”
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