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Centenary – Death…The Final Frontier
Band - Centenary Album - Death...The Final Frontier Country of Origin - USA Genre - Detroit Chainsaw Metal Release Date - September 10, 2021 Label - CDN Records Author - Hayduke X The (metaphorical) chainsaw wielding maniacs from Detroit are on the loose again,...
Fawn Limbs – Darwin Falls
Music is often somewhat visual for me, but rarely is it as viscerally visual as this album.
Tiny Tim – The Boxlers: A family history written as it occurred
I find myself enthralled in the story of a family I’ve never heard of, a family who never leaves the house, but instead spends their days watching an Egyptian TV show that they can’t understand.
Isgherurd Morth – Hellrduk
There is great depth of feeling on the album that seeps through the cracks of this raging entity.
Dødsferd – Suicide and the Rest of Your Kind Will Follow Part II
Part I and Part II combine to give a visceral look at the demons whispering in Wrath’s ear.
Cicada the Burrower – Corpseflower
I’m still trying to wrap my head around it, though my heart was completely captured with the first notes of the first listen.
Replicant – Malignant Reality
If we had a rating system, 10 out of 5. We don’t, so just let this shovel you around the face and see if I’m wrong.
Baxaxaxa – Catacomb Cult
Plenty of doomy blackness that will give you the stank face and bob your head to the evil flames that seem to grow higher and higher as the album unfolds.
King Woman – Celestial Blues
From the thunderous energy of “Coil” to the chugging thwacks that accompany the heart-wrenching lyrics of “Ruse,” this album has a little something for everybody.
Impossitor – Another Day, Another Doldrum
This whole album sounds like a fast-paced summer road trip (complete with all the flat tires and sugary gas station snacks) wrapped up into 11 tunes. Turn it up, drive fast, and roll the windows down!
Dread Maw – Libations of Blood
The six tracks account for about seventeen minutes of runtime, every second of which twists and turns your psyche in delightfully disturbing ways.
Voland – Царепоклонство – Il culto degli Zar
Elements of symphony, black metal, doom metal, and folk metal blend together in dark, melodic, bombastic package of weird and interesting music.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Veilburner – In The Tomb Of Dreaming Limbo
…if you like to challenge yourself and your psyche, this release is on par with anything else released this year, at the top of the pile of the viscerally bizarre.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Illuminated Manuscripts – Palace of Ghastly Leeches
Band - Sacrilegious Crown/Illuminated Manuscripts Album - Meditations on the Revenant Enigma Country of Origin - Italy/Estonia Genre - Raw Black Metal Release Date - August 6, 2021 Label - Xenoglossy Productions Author - Hayduke X If you know Estonia’s...
Joyous Wolf, Recharged
Joyous Wolf, Recharged By Shantelle Thornton Soulful vocals permeate the air and powerful vocals provoke the imagination; this is Joyous Wolf. The music of Joyous Wolf encompasses the listener, compelling them to sway rhythmically as the lyrics unravel into a story....
Sleep Waker – Alias
…as in a dream world, the album is a deep mix of different concepts both musically and conceptually that would seem confusing outside of dreamworld. Yet here, they make perfect sense.
Ayyur – Balkarnin
Dagon and Angra Mainyu combine on the desolate and atmospheric guitar riffs, weaving moments of dissonance in with moments of heavy pathos.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Sense Offender – Prayer Sheet
An exclusive stream of the track Prayer Sheet by Sense Offender.
Chadhel – Split
Band - Chadhel Album - Split Country of Origin - Canada Genre - Grindcore Release Date - December 1, 2021 Label - Give Praise Records Author - Hayduke X I’m a little late on this one, but it is worth the wait. I’ve been following Chadhel in particular since the...
Void Angel/Sacral – Crucible of Utopia
Band - Void Angel/Sacral Album - Crucible of Utopia Country of Origin - UK/USA Genre - Black Metal Release Date - July 3, 2021 Label - Independent Release Author - Hayduke X The Crucible of Utopia Split marks the follow up to February’s Winds From Paradise,...
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Confused – Get Wasted
Get Wasted thrashes hard, the way crossover is supposed to, with a ton of hardcore punk attitude and energy.
Disimperium – Malefic Obliteration
The EP has the ominous intent of black metal, the thick swampiness of dissonant death metal, and the feral abrasion of grindcore.
Patty PerShayla & The Mayhaps – Cheap Diction
Full of snarling punk attitude, the album is just plain fun to listen to.
Craven Idol – Forked Tongues
No one should ever dare question the might and sheer will of Craven Idol.
