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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...
Crypts of Despair – All Light Is Swallowed
All Light Is Swallowed is less of an album and more of a channeling of eviscerating darkness.
Hot Alien Sauce – Seeking Glory
“Seeking Glory” will be the one where they solidified their potential status as legends.
Serocs – Vore
All of the chaotic brutal beauty (breauty? beautality?) is on display here in Vore yet again.
Body Void/Keeper – Split
Earlier this year, two titans of the sludge world re-arranged the structural integrity of the earth’s core by releasing this monster split.
Æpoch – The Scryer
…has just enough touch of prog to keep it flowing and interesting.
Recorruptor – The Funeral Corridor
…if you are looking for the next titan to rise from the Murder Mitten, take a close look here.
Forged in Black – Ten Years at the Forge
…comes at you…bad-to-the-bone…
Wyrm Chasm/Psychiatric Regurgitation – The Purge of Shrouded Martyrdom
Honestly, I’m glad I don’t have to choose. I can sit back and listen to both.
Defeated Sanity – The Sanguinary Impetus
…they play a fast, brutal form of Death Metal that maintains a distinct technical aspect with quick succession of riffs and blasts.
Cryptic Shift – Visitations From Enceladus
From the very opening notes, it is obvious that Cryptic Shift is about to take you far, far away from Planet Earth.
Various Artists – A Fistful MORE of Rock n’ Roll, Vol. 3
This volume might just go down as my preferred comp ever.
Soulmass – The Weakness of Virtue
There is a burning sense of ominous intent throughout the release, yet the primary emotion seems to be one of grief, fitting for a game where the primary experience is death.
Golden Ashes – In the Lugubrious Silence of Eternal Night
…and turns it into an almost panic inducing feeling.
