FEATURE: Gråt Strigoi – The Prophetic Silence (Review + Interview)
This is one of those goosebump raising albums that requires a few moments of stillness to recenter yourself when it ends.
CONCERT COVERAGE: 1349, Spectral Wound, Antichrist Siege Machine, Spirit Possession
Belated coverage of the big black metal show in Grand Rapids at the end of May.
FEATURE: Hail – Transgression (review + interview)
They remain one of the freshest boundary pushers on the edge of heavy music and are worth exploring.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Construct of Lethe – I am the Lionkiller/ Labyrinthine Terror
A Kindness Dealt In Venom” is what the result should have been had that band continued to evolve, innovate, and improve.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Malconfort – Compulsion (Ecstasy)
Band – Malconfort Album – Humanism Country of Origin – UK Genre – Experimental Black Metal Release Date – July 5, 2024 Label – Transcending Obscurity Records Author – Hayduke X Today, we are streaming the opening track...
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Cranial Disorder – Compulsive Savagery
…this young Indonesian band innovates by judiciously integrating in other styles of death metal and by a driving dynamism (and of course by having waves of quality riffs).
Sentiment Dissolve – The Orwellian Dream (Review + Interview)
Precision, power, variety, creativity. What more do you want?
Tzompantli – Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force
“Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force” is a war cry against the oppressive forces of modernity and a calling forth of ancient warriors and ancient ways.
TRACK STREAM: Februus – Gentrification of the Soul
If you’re an adventurous sort, this album is for you. If you’re not, well you will be by the time you’re done listening, because this album is for you anyway.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Miasmic Serum – Infected Seed (Featuring Fiore Stravino from Fulci)
Give this one a listen…it’s got some punch.