Lizzies – On Thin Ice
all-female Madrid-based quartet wears their hard-rocking roots on their denim-clad sleeves, infused with a sizable dose of punkified piss and vinegar.
Morgue Walker – Forage the Ash
If you like your death metal blackened, grinding and filthy, this one’s for you!
Grog – Macabre Requiems
massive riffs, guttural growls and gut churning insanity
Behemoth – I Loved You At Your Darkest
Audiophiles rejoice; this is the best sounding black metal album to date
Siniestro – Arctic Blood
I’ve determined one thing, FOUR TRACKS IS NOT ENOUGH
Ghost World – Spin
It is the feel good album I can listen to as the marigold leaves get whipped from the trees
Skepticism – Stormcrowfleet
Stormcrowfleet is a flagship album for the funeral doom subgenre
Hypnos – Set Fire to the Sky
These exuberant Swedes do much more than merely incorporate their retro influences into their sound; no, they take idolatry one step further by blatantly aping different bands’ styles for individual songs.
Graveborne – 1918
The album undulates between savagery and mournful atmosphere with a fair number of interesting flourishes added.
Superfjord – All Will Be Golden
a dynamic, mind bending experience of groove heavy, percussion laden majesty