Beldam are a blackened doom/sludge band form the US and this is their second album.
Pasung offers up 48 minutes of gritty, American sludge metal, replete with plenty of doom and an ugly blackened patina. Continue reading “Beldam – Pasung (Review)”
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Esoctrilihum – Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas to Awaken the Blind Sovereigns of Nothingness) (Review)
Esoctrilihum is a French one man black/death metal band and this is his second album.
71 minutes of harrowing, terrify blackened evil? Sign me up! The man behind Esoctrilihum has created a monster of an album. Continue reading “Esoctrilihum – Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas to Awaken the Blind Sovereigns of Nothingness) (Review)”
Funeral Winds – Sinister Creed (Review)
This is the fourth album from Funeral Winds, a black metal band from the Netherlands.
This is black metal played in the classic style; hateful, raging, and full of the fire and fury of the second wave. Continue reading “Funeral Winds – Sinister Creed (Review)”
Seventh Genocide – Toward Akina (Review)
Seventh Genocide are an Italian post-black metal band and this is their second album.
Now this is quite the ambitious and expansive work. 59 minutes of post-black metal, delivered with passion and no small amount of skill. Continue reading “Seventh Genocide – Toward Akina (Review)”
Abigor – Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)(Review)
Abigor are a cult Austrian black metal band and this is their tenth album.
Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition) gives the listener 36 minutes of minimalist Satanic black metal. Continue reading “Abigor – Höllenzwang (Chronicles of Perdition)(Review)”
Rotting Kingdom – Rotting Kingdom (Review)
Rotting Kingdom are a death/doom metal band from the US. This is their debut EP.
This EP contains 24 minutes of bleak, despondent metal. Rotting Kingdom’s music is grim and mournful, with a darkness of delivery that comes through in everything they do. Continue reading “Rotting Kingdom – Rotting Kingdom (Review)”
Living Altar – Scythes Towards Psyche (Review)
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)”
Neverending Winter – Сеногной (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)”
Conjurer – Mire (Review)
This is the debut album from Conjurer, a sludge/post-metal band from the UK.
Here we have 44 minutes of music that combines contemporary, doom, sludge, progressive, black, and post-metal. The material on Mire offers up everything from slow, monolithic crawls, to focused blast beats, meaning that Conjurer cover Continue reading “Conjurer – Mire (Review)”
Estuarine – Sic Erat Scriptum (Review)
Estuarine is a one-man death metal project from the US. This is his third album.
Sic Erat Scriptum is the ambitious follow up to 2015’s equally ambitious Lucid/Entheogen. Continue reading “Estuarine – Sic Erat Scriptum (Review)”
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