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Wildspeaker – Spreading Adder

Spreading Adder is the DFW quintet’s most ambitious and dynamic project to date, providing a fiery apocalyptic take on the current state of the world.

Aetheric – Serpents Beneath the Shrine

So, to review, we have excellent playing that actually moves the listener, top notch vocals, and conscious lyrics? Full support from this writer.

These are sparse composition reliant on emotion and passion, with anger being the primary. Make know mistake though, when you’ve had a tough day and just need to come home, vent, and flail for awhile, this is exactly what you want.

Balance of Terror – World Laboratory

You could say that they have learned the lessons of the masters well and then moved the music forward into this generation by creating their own style, which makes the album feel timeless.

The Brood/Kittengrinda – Split

The riffs pour forth like slices during a knife fight in a darkened alley.

Primitive Man Live at the New Dodge Lounge

Rage and Frustration Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews Band - Primitive Man Country of Origin - USA Venue - New Dodge Lounge Date - October 29th, 2017 I kind of like this 'Five Things' format for review a live show. It helps me focus my thoughts. As this...

Suffering Hour – In Passing Ascension

In Passing Ascension is a masterpiece from a scene (Minneapolis, MN) that is RED HOT right now.

Hollow World – Exanimate

The quintet as a whole has taken the five pieces to really compose an album, where other bands play different instruments, or even just play songs. Exanimate is one of those pieces of artwork where the whole is indeed greater than the sum of the parts.

In The Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur

Pick it up, wring it out, and you’ll have an ocean of feeling. This is one of those albums that simultaneously seems to last a lifetime and an instant, but you feel changed by listening.

Atoll – Fallout Frenzy

Any more than three minutes of exposure could result in radiation poisoning…

Boson – Domain of Ember

It’s a unique blend that I kind of like.

Celeste – Infidele(s)

The quartet draws you along the twisted pathways of a murky labyrinth of darkness. Much like their live performance, they provide the only light, only cutting marginally through the fog, and only where they want you to see.

Dawn Ray’d – The Unlawful Assembly

Dawn Ray’d plays an atmospheric style that is too raw to be atmospheric black metal.

Low Estate – Covert Cult of Death

Intriguing. Bizarre. Lots of push-pull dynamic with changes that come out of nowhere, but seem organic.

Sorcerer – The Crowning of the Fire King

…the band plays an intriguing mix of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and J.R.R. Tolkein.

Desolate Shrine – Deliverance From the Godless Void

Long winded stories aside, and blackened references duly noted, have at least some faith in me that this is good. Oh so good.

Paroxsihzem – Abyss of Excruciating Vexes

If blackened death that sounds as if it has taken a millennium to seep up through the very crust of the Earth sounds like your kind of thing, then I can highly recommend that you get your filthy muckraking hands upon this release.

Undercroft – The Seventh Hex

This is Death crossed with Thrash crossed with Awesome.

H2SO4 – British Bangala Testament

The past is gone, the New Testament has been written, and H2S04 are here bringing us their own chemistry. Four songs of the finest Thrash Metal ever written.

Freaky Jelly – Reverse

Lovers of progressive rock by nature will delight in the sounds of Moog synthesizers, skittering time signatures, churning bass figures, and soaring guitar runs.

Pale Horseman – The Fourth Seal

Making a name for themselves in the MidWest over the last few years, Pale Horseman is one of the next big things to hit the national stage, all with no label backing them.