News, Reviews & Interviews

FEATURE: Hail – Transgression (review + interview)

They remain one of the freshest boundary pushers on the edge of heavy music and are worth exploring.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Construct of Lethe – I am the Lionkiller/ Labyrinthine Terror

A Kindness Dealt In Venom” is what the result should have been had that band continued to evolve, innovate, and improve.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Malconfort – Compulsion (Ecstasy)

Band - Malconfort Album - Humanism Country of Origin - UK Genre - Experimental Black Metal Release Date - July 5, 2024 Label - Transcending Obscurity Records Author - Hayduke X Today, we are streaming the opening track from “Humanism,” the debut album from UK...

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Cranial Disorder – Compulsive Savagery

…this young Indonesian band innovates by judiciously integrating in other styles of death metal and by a driving dynamism (and of course by having waves of quality riffs).

Sentiment Dissolve – The Orwellian Dream (Review + Interview)

Precision, power, variety, creativity. What more do you want?

Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force

“Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force” is a war cry against the oppressive forces of modernity and a calling forth of ancient warriors and ancient ways.

TRACK STREAM: Februus – Gentrification of the Soul

If you’re an adventurous sort, this album is for you. If you’re not, well you will be by the time you’re done listening, because this album is for you anyway.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Miasmic Serum – Infected Seed (Featuring Fiore Stravino from Fulci)

Give this one a listen…it’s got some punch.

Niboowin – giving in (Review + Interview)

I just walk away from listening each time feeling like I’ve grown or changed in some vaguely satisfying way, like I’ve achieved a catharsis I didn’t even really know I needed.

Lust Hag – Lust Hag (Review plus Interview)

TL;DR – Lust Hag by Lust Hag is a dark, swirling, yet well balanced masterpiece of raw black metal tension.

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Done – Rest to Rust EP

The six tracks are more nuanced, more blackened, and meaner than what was found on the already stellar prior releases.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Fractal Generator – Cryogenian

“Convergence” is absolutely visceral and will hold its grip on you for a long time to come.

TRACK PREMIERE: Glyph – Of The Caverns

The evolution happens bit by bit, piece by piece, almost under the radar, and all in service to the ‘stretching of wings, to fly into the sun.’

FEATURE: Malevich – Trembling and Dowsed EP (plus tour news and an interview)

Michiganders please note that they are at the Regal Beagle in Ann Arbor on May 5th. Sell it out.

Best of March 2024

Our very belated round up (my fault, not Andy’s) of our favorite releases in March.

Hecatoncheir – Nightmare Utopia

It has enough maturity and musical understanding to help keep its freshness

Kólga – Black Tides

Just in time for the sunshine and the summer’s warm embrace, we are given an album that will be played a lot during the scorched daze ahead.

Feed Them Death – The Malady (plus an introduction to the first single: Panopticism II)

The album is visceral and difficult to be sure, but also a brilliant Trojan horse for potential.

Protosequence – Bestiary

Band: Protosequence Album: Bestiary Country: Canada Genre: Death Metal Release Date: April 5th, 2024 Label: Lacerated Enemy Records Author: Michael Litteral Let me start by saying this album has been such a pleasure to review. I'm a huge black metal guy...