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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’.

EXCLUSIVE ALBUM STREAM: Temple of the Fuzz Witch – Red Tide

The key ingredient on this darkly majestic album is riffs.

FEATURE: Feed Them Death – A Subjective Tragedy

It is our great honor today to present to you A Subjective Tragedy, the first track from the upcoming EP.

Gelkhammar – The Sword of Gelfiser

Each listen leaves me simultaneously fulfilled and wanting more. Perhaps that is the sorcerous power of the sword.

Yovel – Forthcoming Humanity

“May this work be a guide to action – a wall against despair.”

Anaal Nathrakh – Endarkenment

…strap in and listen up as Hayduke X (MoshPitNation), VUK (The Metal Wanderlust), ProgCaveOgier (The Metal Wanderlust), Gos (Black Metal Daily, MoshPitNation, Order ov the Black Arts) and Dex (Black Metal Daily) perform a surgically precise track-by-track dissection and give this apocalyptic beast the attention it deserves… for we have entered the age of ENDARKENMENT.

Oceans of Slumber – Oceans of Slumber

What has been wonderful is, even though it was Cammie’s vocals that drew me in, it’s the entire package that keeps bringing me back, and making this album one of my most listened to this year, on a playlist stuffed full of black metal, death metal, and grindcore.

Xythlia – Immortality Through Quantum Suicide

The best way I can describe it (and this falls short of what it really is) is Napalm Death mixed with Cognizant.

When I Die, I Will Get Better? – Svalbard

If you are looking for songs that are a middle-finger to misogyny and apathy, then this album will strike all the right chords within your warm, but battered heart.

Rise Of The Stateless Wolf – Born Dead/Year Of The Rats

Sometimes you just want meat and potatoes at the dinner table. Sometimes you just want extreme metal that rips in your ears.

Sparrows – Mark of the Beast: Extinction

It’s as if you had an M4 Sherman tank that could convert into an ‘82 Firebird with the push of a button.

Primitive Man – Immersion

Immersion is still an overwhelming and pummeling experience, but it’s one you might be able to share with an extreme music friend who wants to get into the band but doesn’t know where to start.

Pessimista – Sanidade?

Pessimista works first and foremost from a thematic base of DSBM, though stylistically, I find a lot of raw influences present as well (though not Raw, if you understand the difference).