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Narzissus – Akt I: Wille ~ Akt II: Fall ~ Akt III: Erlösung
This release shows all the emotional power available in black metal.
Totenmesse – Fiktionlust
Fiktionlust is more concise and doesn’t have any hiccups in the tracklist
Steel Panther is On The Prowl
You better lock up your daughters (and mothers and probably grandmothers too), because California's greatest export is coming back to the Mitten once again. With not one, but three shows in less than a week, Michigan will be rocked to its core when the Winter...
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Eternal Storm – A Giant Bound To Fall
The members use the various styles of metal as different mediums in their quest to create their artistic statement and are not limited by one single metal trope.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Walking Corpse – Born In Hell
Like a pulsating globe of razor wire and broken glass, the album chases you down intent on psychic destruction.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – Annihilation
Allow the annihilation.
Oerheks – Valkengebed
Both hold that tension of the hunt, while also being suggestive of natural beauty.
Paint It Black – Famine
I’m embarrassed to say that Famine is serving as my introduction to the band, but these eight tracks across less than twenty minutes have placed them firmly on my radar.
Seder/Galdr – Tranquilities II: The Air, The Silence, The Vast Array of Emptiness
Deeply mesmeric compositions drew us each into the depths of our souls, to the most contemplative layers, where we experienced epiphanies which are hard to put into words.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Revulsed – Nefarious Devourment
This is the foulest of foul, and one of the rare releases of this style that doesn’t bore me to tears.
Closet Witch – Chiaroscuro
The band continues in a niche side of extreme music that takes the original, anti-musical ethos of grindcore seriously.
Furia – Huta Luna
The musicianship here is as you’d come to expect for the band, top notch and tight. All these songs are driving, super fast paced rippers.
Magnitude – Of Days Renewed…
This album is a banger and I’m very confident the band would keep the pit absolutely hopping.
V/A – Coma Regalia – The One Who Became Many
This makes the compilation highly listenable as a continuous experience (I do not always find this is the case with various artist compilations).
Lucifixion – Trisect Joys Of Pierced Hearts
Band: Lucifixion Album: Trisect Joys Of Pierced Hearts Country: USA Genre: Black Metal Release Date: June 30, 2023 Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Author: Michael Litteral Lucifixion comes out of the shadows unknown to give us their debut album, Trisect Joys...
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Aterrima – Lily of the Valley
Enjoy every jolt, reprieve, attack, and sharp turn.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Sepulchral Curse – Abhorrent Dimensions
The next time someone asks you to explain what death metal sounds like, just play them this album. They will likely be hooked. I know I am.
Tulus – Fandens Kall
Smiles, jamming, and shredding are offered to entice the audience, and with a band like Tulus, it worked like a charm.
Tumultuous Ruin – An Abscess on the Heart of the State
The vision of the world seen between the riffs is bleak, but there is strength and spine there too – enough to rise up with each cadence to move inexorably forward and fight back!
Ôros Kaù – Thanatos
Thanatos isn’t casual, and it shouldn’t be treated as such.
Bihargam – Executioner Star
Though it’s only three tracks long, and one of them is a Soundgarden cover, this EP still feels like a meaty offering.
Altari – Kröflueldar
Putting all of these experimental tendencies together, we have an album that you will return to regularly.
Body Void – Atrocity Machine
Atrocity Machine is a revelation – an evolutionary leap forward for a band that has essentially a perfect discography prior to this album.
Critical Defiance – Misconception
I hear a resurgence of the past with a spiked fist clenched on the future.
