Sxuperion – Myriad
The album starts with some incredibly filthy blackened death metal with vicious guitar riffs, blasting, and yeti growl vocals, then drifts into ambient noise, including samples on one track.
Amiensus – All Paths Lead To Death
They are carving a niche on the same progressive back metal mountain that Oranssi Pazuzu and Cormorant make their home, a place both rugged and majestic, and a place richly deserved by this project.
Blood Tyrant/Departure Chandelier – Split 7″ EP
…both tracks are excellent examples of ways to approach modern black metal with a throw back attitude.
Fell Ruin – To The Concrete Drifts
To The Concrete Drifts, much like all of the work by Detroit based Fell Ruin, is a complex and difficult album.
Rebel Wizard – The Warning of One EP
This thing tears through you like a beast possessed, doing in roughly fifteen minutes the kind of sonic damage it takes some bands a full hour to deal out.
Poison Blood – Poison Blood
Poison Blood has my full attention. This debut album by the North Carolina duo is raw like an open wound, dark like a moonless night, unclean like an American Civil War hospital, and vicious like a thirsty vampire.
american – Violate and Control
An audiohorrorlove story, “Violate And Control” is an exercise of the former, the central, and the latter. In one sonic novel.
Goatwhore – Vengeful Ascension (Review and Interview)
Every song is a representation of Goatwhore and what they’ve done in the past, showing their vast evolution as a band over this 20 years.
MRTVI – Negative Atonal Dissonance
With a broad brush stroke, MRTVI paints a decidedly finite portrait on the ever growing and ever evolving landscape of contemporary black metal.