Morag Tong are a UK doom band, and this is their debut album.
Here we have 48 minutes of material from exploratory doomsters Morag Tong.
Last Knell of Om is an expansive and compelling listen, riven with huge slow guitars and imbued with a keen spacial awareness. It’s Continue reading “Morag Tong – Last Knell of Om (Review)”
This is the second album from Obliterate, a deathcore/death metal band from Canada.
As much as I’m partial to a bit of deathcore now and again, I much prefer it when it’s mixed in with some meaty death metal too. Enter Impending Death. Continue reading “Obliterate – Impending Death (Review)”
This is the debut EP from Tyhjä, a black metal band from Finland.
Here we have almost 19 minutes of blistering, ugly hate, which manifests itself, (mostly), as second wave black metal played with passion and bile. Continue reading “Tyhjä – Tyhjä (Review)”
Wilt are a Canadian black metal band and this is their second album.
Wilt’s 2015 debut album Moving Monoliths was a very well-crafted exploration of atmospheric black metal with doom influences. Continue reading “Wilt – Ruin (Review)”
Deathflux are a UK metal band and this is their debut album.
Deathflux play a heavy and aggressive brand of metal. Mixing influences from groove metal and the NWOAHM with some more contemporary deathcore ones, and adding in some Continue reading “Deathflux – Execrated (Review)”
Warfuck are a French grindcore band and this is their third album.
Warfuck have an unsubtle name to go along with their unsubtle sound. 23 minutes of blistering grindcore spread across 15 rabid tracks? Why, I don’t mind if I do. Continue reading “Warfuck – This Was Supposed to Be Fun (Review)”
Scumworm are a Spanish grindcore band and this is their latest EP.
Scumworm create a riot of violence that’s influenced by old-school grind, death metal, and punk. This EP is an ugly, belligerent way to spend 10 minutes, but a rather enjoyable one regardless. Continue reading “Scumworm – EP (Review)”
Aurora Borealis are a black/death metal band from the US and this is their seventh album.
I always enjoy hearing Aurora Borealis’ music. Their last release – World Shapers – was an exemplary example of how to combine death and black metal influences into a brutal blackened blend of extremity. Continue reading “Aurora Borealis – Apokalupsis (Review)”
Witch Mountain are a US doom metal band and this is their fifth album.
Plying traditional doom metal that focuses on songs, soaring vocals, heartfelt melodies, and gripping riffs, Witch Mountain’s strikingly-covered fifth album features 35 minutes of quality doom metal to get your teeth into. Continue reading “Witch Mountain – Witch Mountain (Review)”
This is the thirteenth album from veteran Finnish metal band Amorphis.
The latest Amorphis album contains another 57 minutes of the band’s charismatic and beguiling mix of folk and progressive-tinged metal and rock. Continue reading “Amorphis – Queen of Time (Review)”
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