Wake are a Canadian grindcore band and this is their third album.
Ahhh, now this is the stuff. 27 minutes of harsh, relentless, nasty music. Continue reading “Wake – Misery Rites (Review)”
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Conjurer – Mire (Review)
This is the debut album from Conjurer, a sludge/post-metal band from the UK.
Here we have 44 minutes of music that combines contemporary, doom, sludge, progressive, black, and post-metal. The material on Mire offers up everything from slow, monolithic crawls, to focused blast beats, meaning that Conjurer cover Continue reading “Conjurer – Mire (Review)”
Estuarine – Sic Erat Scriptum (Review)
Estuarine is a one-man death metal project from the US. This is his third album.
Sic Erat Scriptum is the ambitious follow up to 2015’s equally ambitious Lucid/Entheogen. Continue reading “Estuarine – Sic Erat Scriptum (Review)”
No Funeral – Mankind Is Carrion, Fit for Nothing (Review)
This is the latest EP from US sludge metal band No Funeral.
Having been introduced to No Funeral through their very enjoyable split with Livid, I’m pleased to now have this new EP to get to know them a bit more. Continue reading “No Funeral – Mankind Is Carrion, Fit for Nothing (Review)”
Wrath Sins – The Awakening (Review)
This is the second album from Wrath Sins, a progressive thrash metal band from Portugal.
Wrath Sins play modern thrash metal with a progressive streak to it. It’s well-constructed and well-realised, with good songs and plenty of memorable moments. Continue reading “Wrath Sins – The Awakening (Review)”
Harakiri for the Sky – Arson (Review)
This is the fourth album from Austrian post-black metallers Harakiri for the Sky.
Well, it only seems like yesterday since we were graced with Harakiri for the Sky’s third album III: Trauma, which was unveiled in 2016. This album was somewhat of a slow-burning sleeper hit for me; I Continue reading “Harakiri for the Sky – Arson (Review)”
Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath (Review)
Conqueror’s Oath is the second album from US heavy metallers Visigoth.
Visioth play tried and tested traditional heavy metal, full of classic riffs and meaty metal. Hell yeah! Continue reading “Visigoth – Conqueror’s Oath (Review)”
Primal Rite – Dirge of Escapism (Review)
Primal Rite are a hardcore/crossover band from the US and this is their debut album.
I very much enjoyed Primal Rite’s Sensory Link to Pain EP from last year, (the title track of which appears on this album), and now we have their first full length upon us. Continue reading “Primal Rite – Dirge of Escapism (Review)”
Ataraxy – Where All Hope Fades (Review)
Ataraxy are a Spanish death metal band and this is their second album.
Here we have 48 minutes of death metal with atmospheric doom elements, making for long songs filled with grim moods and shadowy treasures. Continue reading “Ataraxy – Where All Hope Fades (Review)”
Earth Caller – Crystal Death (Review)
Earth Caller are an Australian metallic hardcore band and this is their second album.
Earth Caller’s metallic hardcore operates more on the hardcore side of the trenches, but that doesn’t mean that their beefy metallic content should be discarded, however. Continue reading “Earth Caller – Crystal Death (Review)”
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