Another month, another truckload of top tier metal releases. 2021 just keeps on giving when it comes to music. I struggled hard to limit the below list to the ones that I did, and could easily have included more albums from what was a very packed April. Continue reading “Monthly Overview – the Best of April 2021”
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Hadit – With Ardour and Joy Through the Incommensurable Path (Review)
Hadit are an Italian death metal band and this is their debut album.
Hadit play death metal that has both a malevolent blackened side and a secret doom heart.
Cold dissonance and grim Continue reading “Hadit – With Ardour and Joy Through the Incommensurable Path (Review)”
Osiah – Loss (Review)
This is the third album from UK deathcore band Osiah.
Following on from 2019’s crushing Kingdom of Lies, Loss offers up 50 minutes of advanced-level deathcore. Yes, Osiah have levelled up.
These new songs mix the rampant Continue reading “Osiah – Loss (Review)”
Akhenaten – The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (Review)
Akhenaten are a death metal band from the US and this is their fourth album.
Akhenaten play a hybrid style of black and death metal that’s been spiced up with Middle Eastern folk influences. The music brings to mind a cross between aspects of bands such as Nile, Melechesh, Arallu, Orphaned Land, Rudra, Septic Flesh, and the like. In other words, bands that use their extreme metal for more than simple brutality. Continue reading “Akhenaten – The Emerald Tablets of Thoth (Review)”
Oryx – Lamenting a Dead World (Review)
Oryx are a sludge metal band from the US and this is their third album.
Oryx combine waves of crushing doom with pulverising sludge groove. As a simple description of what you’ll encounter on this album, it serves, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. The band’s apocalyptic heaviness also contains moments of dark Continue reading “Oryx – Lamenting a Dead World (Review)”
Order of the Wolf/Pessimista – Split (Review)
This is a split between two solo bands rooted in black metal – Order of the Wolf from the UK and Pessimista from Brazil.
This actually came out last year originally, but is now getting a tape release. This is my first encounter with both bands, and this split acts as a very good introduction to them. Continue reading “Order of the Wolf/Pessimista – Split (Review)”
Coldcell – The Greater Evil (Review)
This is the fourth album from Swiss black metallers Coldcell.
Featuring the drummer of Schammasch and guest vocals on two songs by the singer of Zatokrev, Coldcell spend 49 minutes delivering atmospheric modern black metal that’s sinister and layered with existential dread. Continue reading “Coldcell – The Greater Evil (Review)”
Hideous Divinity – LV-426 (Review)
Hideous Divinity are an Italian death metal band and this is their latest EP.
This new 16-minute EP contains two new sci-fi concept-themed tracks, and a cover of a Coheed and Cambria song. Continue reading “Hideous Divinity – LV-426 (Review)”
Cicada the Burrower – Corpseflower (Review)
This is the fourth album from one-woman black metal band Cicada the Burrower.
Corpseflower is an intriguing and engaging collection of tracks that mix jazz, post-hardcore, psychedelic rock, and post-rock into a 31-minute progressive/post-black metal framework that also incorporates elements of blackgaze and depressive black metal. Continue reading “Cicada the Burrower – Corpseflower (Review)”
Spectral Lore – Ετερόφωτος (Review)
Spectral Lore is a one-man Greek atmospheric black metal band, and this is his fifth album.
I was quite excited to see a new Spectral Lore release so soon after the masterful Wanderers: Astrology of the Nine – a colossal split with Mare Cognitum. This new album is pretty colossal too, containing a whopping 79 minutes of music, and it’s every bit as good as you think it is for the most part. Continue reading “Spectral Lore – Ετερόφωτος (Review)”
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