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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Artillery – The Face of Fear
blistering speed metal – a plethora of tempos, moods, and melodies create a balanced listening experience
Chrome Waves – A Grief Observed
Its strengths lie in the quality of the recordings and arrangements, and particularly in the amount of time and space given to each song to build and develop ideas to their conclusion
O.R.k. – Ramagehead
a deep spiraling void of whirring desolation and weighty atmosphere.
Dark Helm – Hymnus De Antitheist
a magnificent display of technical prowess
Discarnatus – Condemned to Darkness
intensely vicious, savagely raw, and pretty weird.
The Wizard Union Collective EP- Roundup
groovy spaced-out trip with ranting vocals and a sing-along chorus
Antiverse – Under the Regolith
Musically, Under the Regolith is a masterwork in slightly progressive death metal.
OrphanOfKos – Arcane Worship Demo 2018
As you approach, her child is born right in front of your eyes. The unnamed Orphan of Kos is a humanoid creature that is holding what appears to be its own bladed placenta.
Vanha – Melancholia
Other bands attempting the Death Doom should look to the album as an example of how to play the style properly.
Ferum – Vergence
Take no prisoners, no holds barred, realest of the real, capital D for Death, capital M for Metal, Death Metal.
Ernia – Ernia
Playing death leaning grindcore, the five guys throw a fair amount of weird into the mix. The riffs are outstanding (what’s that? a grind band that knows how to play riffs?)
Tryptamyne – Tryptamyne
The self titled release actually feels much longer in a wild ‘What just happened?’ kind of way.
Lords of Acid Bring the Kink
For over 30 years Lords of Acid have been mixing electronic, metal, rock, pop, industrial...hell pretty much every type of music there is together, and giving it their own twist. Sin Quirin(guitarist) told MPN “If you took the soundtrack to every strip joint,...
Critical Bill Celebrates Diesel’s 6th Anniversary
Critical Bill brought their action-packed stage show to The Diesel Concert Theater in Chesterfield, MI in celebration of Diesel's 6th Anniversary! The Diesel Concert Theater was born in 2013 when they converted the old Premier Club and Diamonds & Spurs room into...
Illimitable Dolor – Leaden Light
Leaden Light drops in mid-March and will send tidal wave ripples throughout the known (metal) world.
Amiensus/Oak Pantheon – The Gathering II
This time, each band offers a track to the release, as they did last time, but in addition, they sandwich a collaborative track in the middle. Big picture, this split is everything I’d hoped it would be.
Soen – Lotus
First comes the head bobbing. Then the aggression. Followed by falling in love with it.
Green Death – Hallowmass
Band - Green Death Album - Hallowmass Country of Origin - USA Genre - Thrash Metal Release Date - October 19, 2018 Label - Combat Records Author - Hayduke X Sometime in the mid-90's, thrash metal got boring. Either bands started thinking Led Zeppelin was their...
Front Line Assembly – Wake Up The Coma
Band - Front Line Assembly Album - Wake Up The Coma Country of Origin - Canada Genre - Industrial Release Date - February 8, 2019 Label - Metropolis Records Author - Hayduke X Way back in the mid-90's, I went through a phase where I was really into Industrial music...
Bane – Esoteric Formulae
Band - Bane Album - Esoteric Formulae Country of Origin - Serbia/Canada Genre - Blackened Death Metal Release Date - November 30, 2018 Label - Black Market Metal Label Author - Hayduke X The three old ladies sat in a rough circle, deep in concentration on the task at...
Vanquishor – Shadows of Exile
From rhythm to leads, hammering bass to ballistic drums, growls and beyond, the entire serving is delicious!
Texas Metal Outlaws – Texas Metal Outlaws
an intrepid, merry band of about two dozen veterans of the Texas Metal scene have united to present a sort of “all-star” tribute to all things old-school metal.
Sacral Rage – Beyond Celestial Echoes
the Athens-based quartet play fast in the vein of classic ‘80s speed metal and thrash acts, but they also take the listener on a veritable musical roller coaster
Sofy Major – Total Dump
a fast-paced, boisterous, rip-roaring, unrestrained piece of fuzzbox art
