Analepsy are a brutal death metal band from Portugal and this is their debut album.
Holy shiiiit, have I been waiting for this one! I have played the band’s debut EP Dehumanization by Supremacy to absolute death, and now I’m soooo hungry for more. Continue reading “Analepsy – Atrocities from Beyond (Review)”
This is the third album from Nemesis Sopor, a German black metal band.
Nemesis Sopor play atmospheric black metal with long songs and a cutting, second wave influence. Continue reading “Nemesis Sopor – MMXL (Review)”
This is the debut album from Dead Register, a post-metal band from the US.
This is a slightly different take on what most post-metal bands are doing, and Dead Register have managed to pull off an unusual feat – Fiber is not an album that readily sounds like many others out there. Continue reading “Dead Register – Fiber (Review)”
This is Craven Idol’s second album. They are a black metal band from the UK.
2013’s Towards Eschaton made an impression on me, and I still return to it now and then for a fix of ugly blackened worship.
Craven Idol play black metal forged in the fires of Continue reading “Craven Idol – The Shackles of Mammon (Review)”
Ohhms are a doom band from the UK and this is their debut album.
Ohhms made a bit of a splash in the doom metal waters with their debut EP Bloom, and now with their first full-length, that splash could become a tsunami. Continue reading “Ohhms – The Fool (Review)”
Bear are a Belgian metal band and this is their third album.
Okay, so the album cover and band name pretty much sum up what this sounds like – you’re gonna get mauled.
This is a balanced offering of complex technical math metal and muscular, taut modern metal. It’s Continue reading “Bear – /// (Review)”
Ars Magna Umbrae is a one-man black metal band from Poland and this is his debut EP.
Through Lunar Gateways provides us with terrifying apocalyptic black metal that’s steeped in atmosphere and blackened gloom.
The music on this Continue reading “Ars Magna Umbrae – Through Lunar Gateways (Review)”
Eve to Adam are a US rock band and this is their latest album.
This is anthemic rock with big choruses and an electronic influence. It’s modern and addictive, bringing a passion and intensity to the performance that feels easy, natural and unforced. Continue reading “Eve to Adam – Odyssey (Review)”
This is the debut album from Danish black metal one-man project Råttkung.
This is a band that we’ve encountered before, (Dark Is the Beginning, Unborn Undead), and that has impressed on both occasions.
Unborn Undead saw the music just starting to develop some elements of atmospheric black metal, and I’m pleased to say that Continue reading “Råttkung – Metamorphosis (Review)”
Voidthrone are a US black metal band and this is their debut album.
Voidthrone play dissonant, uneasy, black metal with elements of doom and death metal mixed in.
If you smash together Ulcerate, Gorguts, Deathspell Omega and Wolvhammer and then Continue reading “Voidthrone – Spiritual War Tactics (Review)”
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