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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Tia Carrera – Tried and True
What truly cements this release as an overwhelming artful culmination is the feeling behind it.
Cognizant/Bad Rites Split
Regardless of which side sounds more your style, I recommend brewing a pot of chamomile tea prior to listening. You may need it to calm your nerves.
Obnoxious Youth – Mouths Sewn Shut
This sounds like one of the best basement punk shows I never got to see,…
Rübezahl – Tempering of Northern Iron
Mighty warriors walk this land of heathen beauty, while the earth and elements hold their own battles of life, death, existence, and the void.
Slumlord Radio – Gonna Be A Riot/I Wanna Be Your Dog
…they are straightforward, no frills, downright filthy rock and roll.
Ghost Toast Shape Without Form
On the contrary, these guys are nothing more or less than prog-metal alchemists,…
Wasteland Coven – Ruined
What a monstrous statement these three songs make!
Ulcerate Interview
JGilbert interviews Ulcerate
Dearth – To Crown All Befoulment
To Crown All Befoulment strives to take the throne for unremitting nihilism and sonic annihilation of 2020 with it’s infernal, terror-inducing, and lethal combination of black metal, death metal, and bestial/war metal.
Sven Gali – 3
Astonishing twirling sounds and gusts of psych commotion envelope the splendid and absolutely shaking tracks on each through and through.
Heaven Shall Burn – Of Truth and Sacrifice
The album is heavy! Sometimes that’s in a musical sense, sometimes in an emotional sense, but mostly it’s heavy in both senses.
Aara – En Ergô Einai
Aara honestly sounds like no other band I’ve ever heard, despite some similar elements to a few groups.
Esoctrilihum – Eternity of Shaog
Band - Esoctrilihum Album - Eternity of Shaog Country of Origin - France Genre - Black/Death Metal Release Date - May 22, 2020 Label - I, Voidhanger Records Author - Joel Sublett, Jr. With a mix of brutality, dark atmosphere, confusing, yet proficient...
Wailin’ Storms – Rattle
…rough, energetic, profoundly moving, yet subtle, magnificent and significant like a perfect work of art.
VIDEO GAME REVIEW: Bleeding Edge – Nidhoggr
…there is a ray of hope in the black metal inspired character of the Microsoft exclusive game Bleeding Edge… Nidhoggr!
Unreqvited – Empathica
…typical descriptors such as “melodic” do not even begin to describe the immaculate, celestial magnificence of UNREQVITED’s God-tier blackened cinematic atmosphere.
FEATURE: Neptunian Maximalism – Éons
…metal-adjacent, and utterly, mind-blowingly impossible to describe, though I will attempt to do just that in this feature article.
Enox – Sequence (single)
…all signs point to it being musically diverse and very competently written.
VINTLECHKEIT – Svartskogen, svartvinter… / Dødssted…
It was very clear that the band had something to prove, and they had a damn good start proving it.
Polemicist – Zarathustrian Impressions
The journey the riffs take you on is full of bizarre twists and turns, progressive in a vicious, abrasive way.
xIron Sharpens Ironx – The Tragedy of Mankind
This genre-defying album throws all emotions into the mix to really bring home the message.
The Bar Stool Preachers – Soundtrack to Your Apocalypse
This is a song that is full of fantastic one-liners that perfectly depict what is going on in the UK, USA, and the rest of the world.
Andor – Deconstructing Constructs
As heavy and unrelenting as this release is, it never forgets to swing.
An Isolated Mind – Self Titled
Despite the contrast in tone and intensity, this album blends together into a dynamic cacophony.
