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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Andry Lagiou – Interview 11/27/20
I always have a story behind them, but when I upload the song with a video, people notice it and understand what I want to say. It’s a performance! People want to see me, not just hear me.
Voivod – The Lost Machine
“The machine was going full on. We were really tight and the vibe was great.” – Away
Bog Wizard – From The Mire
Ultimately, From The Mire is an album not to be slept on. If taken seriously, it will take you on a dark journey into the recesses of your imagination.
Abstract The Light – Magna Sapientia Quaerere – To The Depths Of Thy Soul
With plenty of variety in every aspect of their collective sound, you’ll find yourself claiming favorite parts of the music scattered throughout.
EYES – Underperformer
These tracks are great for getting the blood pumping, and they urge you to get up and flail around.
Mizmor & Andrew Black – Dialetheia
These two tracks seem to exist nowhere. They are blank, bleak landscapes that hold nothing but a relentless wind that carries upon it sounds that cannot be described; a howling upon some unknown and unseen plane of existence.
Precaria – Nigraluminiscencia
“Nigraluminiscencia” starts with a second or two of infernal fires crackling until you’re right where the music wants you, disoriented in dissonance and feeling the flames of your inner-hell.
Lindsay Schoolcraft – Interview 10/29/20
Interview with Lindsay Schoolcraft
TRACK STREAM: Tantivy – I Am The Wolf
The Wisconsin duo channel the beating heart of the traditional heavy metal I grew up with and they’re damn proud of it.
LaColpa – Post Tenebra Lux
Over the course of roughly forty three minutes, spread across five tracks, LaColpa assail the listener with a nightmare of nihilistic intensity.
FULL ALBUM STREAM: PRECARIA and ÔROS KAÙ – Theosulphuros
Taken together, the two sides of Theosulphuros have something of a yin yang quality to them – the more structured Precaria, riding herd on the wild nature of Darkness, driving chaos relentlessly forward and the more chaotic ÔROS KAÙ whose wild rhythms reveal a central, mesmeric calm being birthed.
Sea Sleeper – Old Guard
…I hear caustic, acidic sludge, bonkers dissonance and hard left turns, and mesmeric melancholy…
TRACK STREAM: The Sombre – My Betrayal As A Knife
Desperation. Hatred. Pain. All of these can be heard in every riff, drum beat, and anguished growl of Maurice de Jong on Shapeless Misery, his latest offering to the world.
VIDEO PREMIERE: Cult Burial – Dethroner
Great beauty is buried within a dark morass of dissonance destructiveness.
Throne – Pestilent Dawn
There will be a moment in your future when you get to press play on this album for this first time, and that moment will be amazing!
Blood Red Fog – Fields of Sorrow
Like other Finnish (and French) bands, the sound initially comes off as very raw, but you then realize that every instrument is heard, everything has their space and their moments to be heard and appreciated.
FEATURE: Vulgarian – Human Scum
Musically ugly, the nasty riffs, abrasive drumming, destructive bass, and visceral howls of rage-filled horror mirror the ugly underbelly of society, an underbelly that has always been there, but that has been crawling ever further into the light during the tenure of this administration.
Lunacy – Melancholic Invocations
The final product is gripping, painful to behold, and wonderfully cathartic.
Æolian – The Negationist
…the band combines passionate vocals with a top notch blend of influences woven through their melodic death base, to call attention to the destruction being visited on the earth through the havok of mankind.
Entry – Detriment
What this album offers, aside from pure catharsis, is a somewhat conclusive end to this cycle
Interview – Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan of Svalbard
A day before their third album was set for release, I talked with Serena Cherry and Liam Phelan of Svalbard. What unfolded was a conversation about the sexism that exists within music publications, sketches of the band members as dogs, the final shows before the Covid lockdown, and the spectacular graphics of video games in 2001.
Aversio Humanitatis – Behold The Silent Dwellers
Coming in hot to celebrate a decade of evolving and growing, we have reach a point of maturity and perfection, as Behold The Silent Dwellers is nothing short of a masterpiece.
MrKill – The Day Of Reckoning
A concept album by a concept band based on a concept character. Concept inception? Conception?
VIDEO PREMIERE: Code Noir – Supersonic
Today, Code Noir presents us with a surprise drop of a new video for ‘Supersonic’.
