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Bloodstrike – Execution of Violence
Unrelentingly dark, massively brutal, surprisingly beautiful, intensely engaging, and boldly unpretentious, Bloodstrike have created a surprise masterpiece that grows on me with each listen.
Dead Hawk – No Safety On Other Worlds
In the final analysis, Dead Hawk has created a space outside of music, and possibly outside of our reality, in which to provoke passion and angst in our psyche.
Odradek Room – A Man of Silt
‘A Man of Silt’ is exceptional. The strangest thing you will hear for a long time.
Blood Hunter – The End of Faith
If Melodeath is your thing, you’d be an idiot to miss this. But be prepared, because this leans more to the nastier than the nice.
Gaerea – Gaerea
Billed as black metal, the EP is actually black metal with atmospheric leanings that incorporates a ton of emotional hardcore influences in the way the material is presented. In terms of actual playing, it is fair to call this black metal.
Goat War – Warwolf
It’s raw, it’s not the best quality, but what you can hear in the mud is blackened punk-thrash brilliance.
Sutekh Hexen/Hissing – Split LP
While the two sides are noticeably different, they do make a coherent whole, as both projects reach outside the box for their sound.
6 Prong Paw – Redact
They feature more extreme influences than ever before, weaving elements of black and death metal into their modern metal sound.
The Black Dahlia Murder – Nightbringers
The band doesn’t seem to have missed a beat, as they pick up exactly where they left off, but with some extra attitude included.
Drug Honkey – Cloak of Skies
All of it is carefully pieced together to sound like the internal monologue of a serial killer.
Five of The Eyes Interview
An interview with Five of the Eyes.
Hexis – Tando Ashanti
Tando Ashanti is a knife fight to the death caught in sonic form. There is no guarantee of survival.
Vuur – In This Moment We Are Free – Cities
Vuur will be a force to reckon with in the prog metal genre in the years to come, provided the project stays together.
Primitive Man – Caustic
There is nobody else that I’m aware of doing what PM does. They are masters of a genre all their own.
Hallas – Excerpts From The Future Past
On this second release, they put forth an album oozing with true fantasy prog that is missing from the scene today.
Pereplut – V Starodavnie Goda
V Starodavnie Goda is a romping album that calls to mind a medieval tavern filled with victorious warriors after battle.
Encyrcle – Burning Child EP
Fist pumping and sing-alongs with surely follow, and I certainly feel like donning my battle vest.
Nailblack – Envied
Nailblack approach evil in a manner so old school that Immortal could have developed from them.
Downcast Twilight – Under the Wings of the Aquila
Melodic death metal is the order of the day. Upon this foundation, the band uses folk flourishes, including a violin, to round out the sound.
MI Metal Shows Update: 10.02.17
With this week’s update you can: Rock an MPN shirt. Support a metal show in the Mitten. Make your nails match your soul. Watch a Primus video. Pick up the new Act Of Defiance album…. AND MUCH MORE \m/
Yellow Eyes – Immersion Trench Reverie
The album showcases the particulars of the Yellow Eyes style, including the way they take the majestic, mournful sound generally found in the Cascadian subgenre, and turn it inside out so that it becomes a ravaging sickness worming its way through your brain.
Wolves In The Throne Room – Thrice Woven
My initial impression is that the albums falls somewhere between the beauty and grandeur of Celestial Lineage and the harsh aggression of Two Hunters.
Woe Unto Me – Among The Lightened Skies The Voidness Flashed
Patience now becomes the Virtue. You are involved.
Entrapment – Through Realms Unseen
It has that crusty, old death metal, mean sound.
