Reviews: MI Metal Shows & Albums
Here’s Our Opinion.
Graven Maul – Crushed Skull Moon
Band - Graven Maul Album - Crushed Skull Moon Country of Origin - United States Genre - Death Metal Release Date - July 13, 2018 Label - Redefining Darkness Records Author - Baker New on the death metal scene, Graven Maul has released the five track EP Crushed Skull...
Construct of Lethe – Exiler
Band - Construct of Lethe Album - Exiler Country of Origin - USA Genre - Death Metal Release Date - June 20, 2018 Label - Everlasting Spew Records Author - Hayduke X Oppressive - weighs down or makes heavy, especially psychologically; traps or holds in bondage;...
Taphos – Come Ethereal Somberness
…savagery in a complex, slow burning, almost ritualistic atmosphere.
Formicarius – Black Mass Ritual
Black Mass Ritual features a certain pomposity to it, almost upbeat, and very grand sounding, though the entire thing is undeniably subversive.
Beast in the Field/Hellmouth Split
The music speaks for itself.
Funeral Mist – Hekatomb
Those first notes hooked me and I found myself swept along, unable to fight the current, resting to preserve my strength for the moment I might break free.
Cardiac Arrest – A Parallel Dimension of Despair
…the composition of the whole is brutally vile and compellingly tight.
Délétère – De Horae Leprae
…complex riffs whose only purpose is to crawl insect-like into your brain, lay eggs, and let their larvae consume you from the inside.
Wolvhammer – The Monuments of Ash and Bone
Wolvhammer take the aggression and savagery of black metal and drag it down into the filth of sludge bile.
Imperial Triumphant – Vile Luxury
The music is also most reminiscent, to me, of free jazz, finding inspiration in many different styles of music, past and present, and then gutting them, turning them on their head, and subverting them in the most difficult ways.