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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
Top Ten-ish of 2018 by JGilbert
a year full of boundary pushing, genre blending, and crazy music
TRACK PREMIERE: Witchgöat – Beyond the Soil of the Dead
Allow me to present Beyond the Soil of the Dead, the final track in this opus of pustular filth.
1914 – The Blind Leading The Blind
From each pleasant little ditty written to inspire the soldiers in their trenches and loved ones back home, to the thunderous sound of these Ukranian boys bringing the history back before our very ears, this is simply one album that every Metal fan must have, and I cannot emphasise this enough.
Sacral Rage – Beyond Celestial Echoes
this is withering-fire metal amplified 150 percent on the technicality and innovation scales.
Black to Comm – Seven Horses For Seven Kings
I feel unsettled, nervous, even insignificant as I listen, but the effect is more ominous than threatening.
Discarnatus – Condemned to Darkness
Fermented deep in the underground depths of pandemonium, this release contains many familiar aspects of the Discarnatus sound.
INTERVIEW with MARTIN LOPEZ of SOEN
growing as musicians, touring internationally, and their new album, Lotus,
Cloudburst – Cloudburst
builds to a wall of sound crescendo reminiscent of early emocore for just a moment before the chaos resumes.
Interview – Void Rot
If you haven’t heard of Void Rot, the psyche consuming MinnDeath project from Minnesota, you’ve probably been living in a cave somewhere.
Deadbird – III: The Forest Within the Tree
traditional elements of classic stoner and doom metal, sprinkled in some sludge and noise elements, and twisted them into a well-integrated form.
Unattended Death – SPLIT w/ Ridiculous Terror
three tracks of throwback goregrind with riffage that brings up memories of early Cannibal Corpse, delivered in bite sized chunks I can eat up again and again.
Forcefield – Lord of the Rings Modulator
“Lord of the Rings Modulator” is not so much ‘to listen to an album’ as it is ‘to have an experience’
Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2018
What a year it’s been! There is no way a top 50 album is enough to truly express the fantastic year of music that was 2018. Nevertheless, check it out, comment, agree, argue, enjoy!
Night Vapor – 1000 Miles of Mud
clashing notes, sporadic beats, quavering distortion, and chain-smoking vocals
