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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Lifelost – Dialogues From Beyond
The riffs are dissonant ear worms that savagely burrow through your brain with the menace of Herbert’s Sandworms. They don’t so much sit in the back of your subconscious as tear through it to make it their nest.
Imperialist – Cipher
…it is an excellent first step into the wide galaxy of black metal and certainly a project worthy of your attention.
Hessian – Mercenary Retrograde
old-school without sacrificing originality and artistry
Aeolian – Silent Witness
production is lush and powerful, the playing flawless throughout, and the songs are as melodic and dynamic as they are fast and pummeling.
Crosby Morgan – Rain Games for the Natural Born Pariah
These songs are dreamy architecture; they are misty, moving pictures
Forn – Rites of Despair
From start to finish, I want to sit with my eyes closed, in a dark room while the music pervades every fiber of my being. I would walk away a changed man I would wager.
Satan – Cruel Magic
Not only does the quintet maintain their vintage tightly-picked, highly-harmonized riffing style, but they also subtly include elements of black metal (lots of octaves and rigorous tremolo picking), as well as the bluesy licks, retro tones, and standard tuning of late ‘70s Pentagram, Budgie, or Judas Priest.
Cultural Warfare – Warmageddon
a fantastic sense of melody, and a consistent infusion of that most precious and rarefied intangible — soul.
Devil’s Teeth – Suki Yaki Hot!
vintage, nostalgia loaded perfection as they bring out the best in what surf punk once was.
Iron Void – Excaliber
doom style gets mixed with the storytelling ability of power metal.
Solium Fatalis – Genetically Engineered
good with a villainous mind and a brooding darkness.
Krisiun – Scourge of the Enthroned
type of album that needs no explanation to the purist, it just needs to be played over and over until you are exhausted
Cauldron – New Gods
lethargic tempos, chiming arpeggios, resonant power chords
Dead Register – Captive
explores fistfuls of varying genres, from dreamy shoegaze, to a more post-gothic sound, to a slightly refined atmospheric metal
Monte Pittman – Between the Space
Those who dig their metal straight-forward and groovy should find plenty to enjoy
Alms – Act One
The slow dirge, and the feelings of your inevitable end
156/Silence – Undercover Scumbag
for the masses of angry, pissed-off people of the world.
Spacetrucker – Smooth Orbit
Sabbath-inspired doom riffs with abandon; but they also intersperse enough groove to make their songs as danceable as they are headbang-friendly.
Paragnosis – Clarity In Three (Redux)
atmospheric and esoteric, seemingly floating through a series of complex metal riffs, dissonant jazz chords, and subtle lead-guitar melodies laid atop a straightforward-yet-effective rhythmic foundation.
Pharoah- After the Fire
a seamless sonic smorgasbord of a blend of the best of U.S., British, and continental European metal styles.
Kadebra – Compass
Chelyabinsk, Russia and Indianapolis, Indiana? Two places that no one thought would be mentioned in connection with each other, let alone by such an excellent piece of cooperative heaviness
Statiqbloom – Infinite Spectre
Infinite Spectre is an ideal marriage of choppy electronic beats with abnormal, spine-chilling vocals.
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Wild – Sin Piedad
Fans of classic melodic speed metal such as Painkiller-era Judas Priest, German legends Accept, Running Wild and Helloween, Vicious Rumors, and late-’80s Riot will go “Wild” over this
