This is the tenth album from US death metal veterans Jungle Rot.
Although Jungle Rot aren’t a band I’m intimately familiar with, I do know, (and enjoy), some of their previous work, so it’s with great interest that I listen to this self-titled album as it’s a bit different from what I’ve heard from the band before. Continue reading “Jungle Rot – Jungle Rot (Review)”
This is the latest EP from Converge, a legendary hardcore band.
Apparently recorded during the sessions for The Dusk in Us, this EP lasts a mere 7 minutes and spends its time ferociously ripping off faces left, right, and basically every-damn-where. Continue reading “Converge – Beautiful Ruin (Review)”
Ripis are a doom metal band from the US and this is their second album.
Well, well, what a powerful and well-written album we have here. Filled with bleak moods and despondent atmosphere, this is dark, affecting stuff. Ripis know how to write a damn good doom metal tune. Continue reading “Ripis – Shadow Dies in Morning Light (Review)”
Decline of the I are a French post-black metal band and this is their third album.
I very much enjoyed 2015’s Rebellion, but now it’s time to turn our focus to Escape, which brings us 55 minutes of new material. Continue reading “Decline of the I – Escape (Review)”
If you’re looking for something to listen to get insanely worked up to while in the gym, or just generally to get the blood pumping and heart racing, then I heartily recommend Slaughter Monolith by Abhorrent Deformity.
So sit back, feel the crushing riffs squash the life out of you, and find out a little more about the band below… Continue reading “Interview with Abhorrent Deformity”
The latest Moonreich album – Fugue – is an impressive collection of dark, violent black metal songs. However, there’s more to Moonreich than just sonic extremity, and Fugue is layered with the kind of depth and nuance that makes for a very moreish album. Wide-ranging and multifaceted, while being wrapped up in tightly focused aggression, Fugue is an album that’s a very strong release all-round.
Let’s find out a bit more… Continue reading “Interview with Moonreich”
This is the seventh album from Redemption, a progressive metal band from the US.
2016’s The Art of Loss was a compelling and engaging listen, skilfully weaving together melodic metal with progressive know-how. Well, a couple of years and a change of singer later, and we have a 66 minutes of new material in the shape of Long Night’s Journey into Day.
Continue reading “Redemption – Long Night’s Journey into Day (Review)”
The Lion’s Daughter are a progressive blackened sludge metal band and this is their third album.
The Lion’s Daughter always seem willing to try out new things, enhancing their core of heavy sludge with all manner of different elements depending on their mood and interests at the time. Thus far, for me their most striking Continue reading “The Lion’s Daughter – Future Cult (Review)”
This is the second album from Algerian death metallers Lelahell.
Lelahell’s 2014 debut album Al Insane…The (Re)birth of Abderrahmane was a brutal collection of tracks with some exotic flourishes included to spice things up; not only an enjoyable album, but a striking and memorable one too. Continue reading “Lelahell – Alif (Review)”
Ancestors are a progressive doom band from the US and this is their fourth album.
Ancestors’ music has a base of traditional doom metal, which they then build on with progressive, psychedelic, stoner, and post-rock elements. Continue reading “Ancestors – Suspended in Reflections (Review)”
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