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Room 101 – The Burden

It is utterly bleak, like walking into a ghost town.

The Neal Morse Band – The Great Adventour – Live in BRNO 2019

The Great Adventure takes a twist on the story as it follows it from the point of view of the Pilgrim’s son Joseph.

Ergholae Somptator – Eau Ardante

…they do set a tone for the menacing vigor of the attack, like building tension as the victim of a horror movie travels down the hall before the jump scare and horror ensues.

INTERVIEW: Johanna Sadonis of Lucifer

Schultzie talks to Johanna Sadonis from Lucifer

Lucifer – Lucifer III

…they have produced an album for those who want to rock and look good doing so.

EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Ysengrin – Mia Carne Sepolta & Monumentum

Take the time to really let Initiatio seep into your pores. The payoff is so worth it.

Altogether, SERENE DARK represents a significant advance from the band’s previous manifestation and gives listeners a seamless, varied, and epic articulation of black metal, melodic death metal, old school death metal, and deathcore whilst focusing on a fascinating and poignant psychological exploration.

Fellwarden – Wreathed in Mourncloud

It truly gives the the sense of traversing high barren fells as you listen…

LEGACY REVIEW: Giant Squid – The Ichthyologist

With gelatinous form it escapes the grasp of a one genre categorization, and its grabbing tentacles move freely from genre to genre catching plankton particles from everywhere it moves.

Sightless Pit – Grave of a Dog

Bleak despair holds hands with cathartic release.

Death Mantra – Death Mantra

Death Mantra is further proof of the visceral nature of DSBM when it is done properly, and I am grateful to experience it.

Uprising – II

Let this soundtrack be the spark that lights your action for change.

Protest the Hero – Palimpsest

You’ll be hearing these songs in your head over and over and be itching to hear the album once more.

Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – Offerings of Flesh and Gold

…an intense, visceral journey into the darkness of modern society.

Atræ Bilis – Divinihility

Divinihility is a brief masterpiece of angular, chaotic mayhem.

Living Gate – Deathlust

…five spiraling out of control songs that your neighbors will love…If they don’t, then turn it up until they do.

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Fordomth – Is, Qui Mortem Audit

There are many individually exceptional moments, but they don’t draw you away from the dark infernal majesty of the whole.

Interview With Tethra

What follows is an interview between our own Baker and Clode, the vocalist of Italian Death Doom band Tethra. MPN: Empire of the Void was released March 20. In this unprecedented time, what does Tethra...