The Night Watch – Boundaries
The music is challenging, but the presentation is deliciously unusual, and while one might envision such a piece as a cult classic…
They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth
They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth Band – They Mostly Come Out At Night Album – Scorched Upon This Earth Country of Origin – USA Genre – Post-Metal Release Date – May 18th, 2016 Label – Independent Author...
Castle – Welcome to the Graveyard
Vocally, she reminds me of a siren, luring you in. The difference is that she is not luring you to sea, but to your eternal damnation.
Scour – Scour
The short EP gives the sense of a relentless, many clawed demon screaming across the landscape for the sole purpose of rending flesh from bone.
Quinta Essentia – Initiates of the Great Work
I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.
Anderson/Stolt – Invention of Knowledge
…a dazzling album overflowing with joy, warmth, drama, spectacle, and pure positive energy.
Asschapel – Total Destruction (1999-2006)
Though Asschapel doesn’t really sound like Napalm Death – you would never confuse the two – I was impressed by how much the rage of the songs reminded me of Napalm Death.
Ghoul – Dungeon Bastard
…from the very first riff, I was transported back to my 15 year old self, down in my basement bedroom, boom box cranked to 11, and shouting along with Mike that “All I wanted a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi.”
Inter Arma – Paradise Gallows
Paradise Gallows, like Sky Burial before it, is both expansive and oppressive in its ferocity, sometimes glacial, sometimes frenetic pacing, and its ability to suck all the light from the room in a way both tragic and beautiful.
Abominant – Napalm Reign
Let me present you with another exhibit in the case of “How to Make Excellent Death Metal.”