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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Dyssebeia – Black Swarm
The album is elegant, flowing seamlessly from traditional heavy metal riffs to djent worthy chugs to tremolo riffing to soaring melodies to…well, you get the idea.
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Seraphic Entombment – Sickness Particles Gleam
It lives within the boundaries of the style (with some blackening, but that’s not so abnormal), but does so with a unique putrefaction that makes it stand out above the rest.
Cannibal Corpse – Chaos Horrific
Don’t mistake their longevity for complacency: This Cannibal Corpse is still hungry. VERY hungry.
Riversleem – A Second Release By Riversleem
In just two short EPs, Riversleem has joined the ranks of some of my favorite currently active bands with a short but unrelentingly intense genre-spanning style of hardcore.
Sacral – Three of Cups
Make no mistake. This is legitimate black metal music. It just chooses to follow a different path than the grim, corpse-painted, spike laden creature of the night that so many black metal musicians cosplay as.
Terminalist – The Crisis As Condition
These songs are catchy, brutal, and groovy all at the same time.
REVIEW + INTERVIEW: Dismal Aura – Imperium Mortalia
Though the album is explosive, there is plenty of room for nuance
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Yatsu – Appomattox
It’s a scathing powerviolence attack with elements of grind, death metal, groove, and noise filtered through a lens of pure, unadulterated rage.
Cavalcade – Evergreens
There is genuinely never a dull time on this album.
Białywilk – Zmora
This is one for the dark hours.
REVIEW + INTERVIEW: Nixil – From The Wound Spilled Forth Fire
“Calling ourselves antifascist by no means takes away the ferocity of this music. Our teeth are just bared in a different direction, and dripping with different blood.”
Dethklok – Dethalbum IV
…beautifully crafted riffs, brutal vocals, and tight, clean recording quality.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Warcrab – The Howling Silence
I’m a pretty huge fan of the band’s output to date, but this track tops the pile for me.
Witches Forest – Sitting on Stardust
Witches Forest is a perfect example of someone who was actually showing indigenous musical characteristics.
Iskandr – Spiritus Sylvestris
I really love songs that sound like they’d work as a pop songs too and this absolutely does. Bravo!
Ushangvagush – Pestmo’qon
Musically, Pesto’qon picks up where Mntu left off, and then builds from there.
Auriferous Flame – Ardor For Black Mastery
while fundamentally it is black metal as we know and love it, it’s turned and tweaked and reshaped in small ways that leave it sounding fresh and vital.
Bergfried – Romantik II
It really threw me off on first listen, but it’s so well executed that I couldn’t help but fall in love with it.
Feast of the Witch – Under a Sinister Moon
Azaketh has crafted five tracks which feel genuinely powerful.
RORCAL – Silence
When leagues of black metal and sludge bands continue to narrow themselves into smaller and smaller niches in genres that are already well-trodden, sometimes a band scrambles the assumptions of genre enough to keep everything interesting. Rorcal is one such band.
Cult Burial – Reverie of the Malignant
In the case of Cult Burial’s Reverie of the Malignant, it is clear that they do not struggle to find a footing within these seemingly disparate styles. They thrive in the liminal space between them.
Tongues-Formløse Stjerner
…if you wanna sit with an album for a few listens and really get to know it, then this one’s for you!
Owlbear – Chaos to the Realm
Owlbear kicks ass. Seriously.
Ebony Pendant – Ebony Pendant
Right of the rip, or should I say riff, this album brings you to the trve and cold.
