Living Altar are a Lithuanian black/death metal band and this is their debut EP, (after a demo and a split).
This is bestial black/death metal that takes no prisoners with its venomous assault and violent tendencies. Continue reading “Living Altar – Scythes Towards Psyche (Review)”
Endorphins Lost are from the US and Osk are from Canada. They have teamed up for this short and savage grindcore split.
Endorphins Lost give us four tracks of barely contained rage lasting around just as many minutes. Continue reading “Endorphins Lost/Osk – Split (Review)”
This is the fifth album from Finnish death/doom band Hooded Menace.
Whenever I have a craving for death/doom, Hooded Menace can always be relied upon to satisfy it. 2015’s Darkness Drips Forth was a very enjoyable trip into Hooded Menace’s dark world, and now it’s time to revisit it as they unleash 42 minutes of new material. Continue reading “Hooded Menace – Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed (Review)”
Towards Atlantis Lights is an international project that plays atmospheric doom metal. This is their debut album.
Featuring members of Pantheist, Aphonic Threnody, Dea Marica, Arrant Saudade, and Void of Silence, a lot of experience and expertise has clearly been poured into this album. Continue reading “Towards Atlantis Lights – Dust of Aeons (Review)”
Harm’s Way are a metalcore band from the US. This is their fourth album.
Here we have 34 minutes of metallic hardcore, full of spitting anger and beefy riffs. Continue reading “Harm’s Way – Posthuman (Review)”
Neverending Winter are a Russian black metal band and this is their latest EP.
After very much enjoying last year’s Хиус, it’s with great pleasure that I listened to Сеногной. Continue reading “Neverending Winter – Сеногной (Review)”
This is the third album from Black Moth, a doom rock band from the UK.
On Anatomical Venus Black Moth combine doom, garage, and psychedelic rock ,with a bit of the old metallic heavier stuff, into 45 minutes of kicking jams and beguiling songs. Continue reading “Black Moth – Anatomical Venus (Review)”
NVC are a Canadian progressive metal band and this is their debut album.
This is modern and emotive progressive metal that marries some latter-day Anathema influences with a melodic death metal side; think Ensiferum and Wintersun for a starting point. The resulting Continue reading “NVC – The Deleted Scenes (Review)”
Pestilence are a veteran death metal band from the Netherlands and this is their eighth album.
This is a very strong album, let’s just get that stated right at the start. Hadeon is 39 minutes of largely old-school death metal, mixed in with some progressive elements. Continue reading “Pestilence – Hadeon (Review)”
This is the second album from UK sludge metal band Gurt.
This is heavy sludge metal, full of crushing groove and caustic vocals. Influenced by the Eyehategod school of thuggery, (but not limited to it), Skullossus is 40 minutes of romping sludge belligerence. Continue reading “Gurt – Skullossus (Review)”
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