Inanimate Existence are a US progressive death metal band and this is their fifth album.
Inanimate Existence have always impressed. Their blend of progressive, technical, and atmospheric death metal has always been well-written, inventive, and thoroughly enjoyable. So far, they have a prolific streak of high quality work, and Clockwork only adds to this, I’m pleased to report. Continue reading “Inanimate Existence – Clockwork (Review)”
This is the third album from the US heavy metal band Spirit Adrift.
Spirit Adrift’s journey so far has been an enjoyable and interesting one, from the doom metal lengthy epics of Chained to Oblivion, via the streamlined doom/heavy metal hybrid that was Curse of Conception, to now this latest Continue reading “Spirit Adrift – Divided by Darkness (Review)”
This is the third album from Abnormality, a death metal band from the US.
I like Abnormality. Sociopathic Constructs follows 2016’s Mechanisms of Omniscience, and gives us 33 minutes of brutal death metal with a side order of technicality. Continue reading “Abnormality – Sociopathic Constructs (Review)”
This is the fifth album from Italian doom band Nibiru.
This is occult, ritualistic doom, drawing elements of black metal, sludge, drone, noise, and psychedelia into itself and crushing it down into a super dense material that’s used to fashion the imposing tracks on Salbrox. Continue reading “Nibiru – Salbrox (Review)”
Old Night are a Croatian doom metal band and this is their second album.
So, I absolutely adored Old Night’s debut album Pale Cold Irrelevance, and it made it into my best of 2017 list. As such, expectations were running high for the band’s second album.
I’m pleased to say that A Fracture in the Human Soul has more than satisfied me. Continue reading “Old Night – A Fracture in the Human Soul (Review)”
Vordemfall are a German noise rock band and this is their debut album.
Here we have 32 minutes of experimental rock, mixing elements of noise, progressive, and post-rock together into an expressive and quite thrilling collection of tracks. Continue reading “Vordemfall – Gravity Problems (Review)”
This is the second album from Sol Sistere, a black metal band from Chile.
Extinguished Cold Light lasts 52 minutes and contains aggressive atmospheric black metal that’s largely influenced by the 90s era. Continue reading “Sol Sistere – Extinguished Cold Light (Review)”
Amon Amarth are a melodic Death Metal band from Sweden and this is their eleventh album.
This is the follow up to 2016’s hideously enjoyable Jomsviking, and once again Amon Amarth have done themselves proud. Continue reading “Amon Amarth – Berserker (Review)”
Mavradoxa are an atmospheric black metal band from the US and this is their third album.
Afer enjoying 2017’s memorable Lethean Lament, Mavradoxa have now returned with a shorter album, (43 minutes vs its predecessor’s 62 minutes), that sees them focused, lean, and firing on all cylinders. Continue reading “Mavradoxa – Nightmarrow (Review)”
This is the fourth album from German Black Metallers Stellar Master Elite.
Hologram Temple is the much anticipated follow up to 2015’s massively enjoyable III: Eternalism – The Psychospherical Chapter. It has not disappointed. Continue reading “Stellar Master Elite – Hologram Temple (Review)”
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