Reviews: MI Metal Shows & Albums
Here’s Our Opinion.
JGILBERT’S BEST OF 2019
the end ot the 10’s and the beginning of the 20’s should be taken as an opportunity to reflect on where we came from and re-evaluate where we’re going.
Wells Valley – Reconcile The Antinomy
Listening to the album straight through is a workout, both harrowing and exhausting, but the payoff is very worth it.
Symbolik – Emergence
…now, do you know that feeling when you are in a plane that accelerates on the airway in order to get the necessary boost for lift off? Yes, that one, when the G-forces bury you into the chair. Get where I’m going, right?!
Enepsigos – Wrath of Wraths
There is little respect for reason or allowance for understanding in this music. You are at the mercy of their dream, their nightmare.
VVilderness – Dark Waters
You can call it post-whatever, but honestly speaking, this is an absolute masterclass of Atmospheric Black Metal, where the calmer interludes always add to the music and do not serve as fillers.
Ploughshare – Tellurian Insurgency
Early days though it may be (relatively speaking), the project has enough of a discography to prove their chops as nightmarish innovators.
Nawaharjan – Lokabrenna
Fast forward to the present day and the Germanic black metallers have stepped it up quite a bit to give us a new offering in the form of Lokabrenna.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Thermohaline – Sirens
Dubbed as Thermodynamic Oceanic Black Metal, the project rolls through a vast multitude of styles, all shored up on the coral reef of black metal.
dai-ichi – dai-ichi
Unrelentingly feral, listening to dai-ichi is akin to being stalked by a predator in the wild. They haven’t caught you yet, but when they do, you already understand the savagery that will ensue.
An Isolated Mind – Self Titled
What I like about this album most, is the serene tranquility that creates a false sense of hope before creating a wave of what I could only describe as a mournful bliss.