Convocation are from Finland and play atmospheric death/doom metal. This is their debut album.
Featuring members of Desolate Shrine and Dark Buddha Rising, this is dark and gloomy death/doom that boasts four colossal tracks lasting 50 minutes in total. Continue reading “Convocation – Scars Across (Review)”
Light the Torch are a US metalcore band and this is their debut album, (or third, depending on how you look at it).
Light the Torch have arisen from the ashes of Devil You Know, whose 2015 They Bleed Red was somewhat of a sleeper hit for me, one which I now regularly return to for a splash of modern song-based heaviness. Continue reading “Light the Torch – Revival (Review)”
Cave Bastard are from the US and are a death metal band. This is their debut album.
With a name like Cave Bastard and an album cover and logo like this, how could I not want to check this out? I’m pleased to say that this initial promise has been fulfilled, and what we have here is 31 minutes of sonic violence and intensity. Continue reading “Cave Bastard – The Bleak Shall Devour the Earth (Review)”
This is the debut album from French black metallers Hyrgal.
Hyrgal play aggressively melodic black metal with a modern coating of hard ice. Continue reading “Hyrgal – Serpentine (Review)”
Primordial are an Irish heavy metal band and this is their ninth album.
It doesn’t seem like 2014 that the very enjoyable Where Greater Men Have Fallen album came out, but apparently it was. Blimey. Continue reading “Primordial – Exile Amongst the Ruins (Review)”
This is the third album from US stoner/sludge/doom band Eagle Twin.
This is blues-inflected doom, taking a dirty stoner influence and spreading it far and wide with a low and heavy sludgy doom coating. Continue reading “Eagle Twin – The Thundering Heard (Songs of Hoof and Horn) (Review)”
This is the debut album from German death metallers Pestilent Reign.
I found myself drawn to this album quite naturally. The band name, their logo, the album cover, it all said to me quite clearly “Listen to me, you will like me…”. Seeing that the band were on Rising Nemesis Records sealed the deal, so I pressed play and prepared myself for… Continue reading “Pestilent Reign – Pyres (Review)”
Nadir are a sludge/death metal band from Hungary and this is their sixth album.
The Sixth Extinction features 33 minutes of sludgy death metal. Think of a cross between Crowbar and Bolt Thrower and you’ll not be too far off from where Nadir operate. There’s also a touch of Obituary, Coffins, Incantation, and High on Fire here and there. Continue reading “Nadir – The Sixth Extinction (Review)”
This is the second release from Ifernach, a one man Canadian black metal act.
Taking influence from the classic second wave sound and injecting it not only with a savage, feral character, but a nuanced, nature-inspired atmospheric one too, this release is 30 minutes of unforgiving raw black metal. Continue reading “Ifernach – Maqtewek Nakuset (Review)”
This is the debut album from Argentinian black metal band Enoquian.
Llamas de Gloria Primera contains 39 minutes of enjoyably raw second wave-influenced black metal. Continue reading “Enoquian – Llamas de Gloria Primera (Review)”
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