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Heavy Metal Around the Globe
Sainte Marie Des Loups – Funérailles De Fue
Sainte Marie Des Loups does an incredible job of showcasing how detestation hissing through the dusk can captivate and ravage the soul.
SCALP – Domestic Extremity
Domestic Extremity is an album that can be recommended to hardcore veterans and that-one-friend-who-isn’t-really-that-into-heavy-music alike. SCALP knows their job and they do it well.
Interview: Jackie Perez Gratz of Grayceon 1/5/21
Fresh into the new year I was able to have a brief chat with Jackie Perez Gratz of Grayceon about what releasing an album in 2020 was like, a bit of history about the band, and what all live music fans are looking forward to - being together to experience music again....
Interview: Eric Lauder of Plague Years
Detroit and thrash metal are a natural pairing. It follows that the city responsible for some of the loudest and fastest cars ever made would produce human beings with a propensity for loud and fast music.
VIDEO PREMIERE: Gravehuffer – Sights To The Sky
I’m certain that headbanging, fist pumping, and living room moshing will all ensue. Perhaps there will even be a sing along.
FULL ALBUM STREAM: Kharàce – Dakhalè
Primarily mid-paced in rhythms and riffing, predominate on Dakhalè, drawing the listener down into hypnotic contemplation.
0-NUN – The Shamanic Trilogy
First, the chaos, then the separation, then the rising away from all, from everything…from anything.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Uncertainty Principle – Stationary State
What you should take from that is that this album is exceptional, gripping, dark, and powerful.
Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2020
Take some time to explore my top 50 albums of 2020. There are some choices you’ll like. I promise.
Zebulon Kosted – A 20 Year Recording Retrospective
Through the entire history of ZK, Ghafur has walked his own path. In the eyes (ears and mind, as well) of this writer, that has served him well.
Zebulon Kosted – Torches Behind The Waterfall
A strong ambient blur brings you into a reminiscent period where for a split second you can duplicate the complexity of emotions and feelings you gave birth to while being in the center of life, light, and love.
Folterkammer – Die Lederpredigt
These songs are composed with perfection in mind, despite drawing from the messy rawness of traditional black metal.
War On Women – Wonderful Hell
Wonderful Hell rightly deserves a place in the 2020 pantheon of the greater soundtrack for the revolution, and this writer stands in full solidarity with them.
Andromeda Anarchia 12/10/20 – Interview
Andromeda Anarchia: *let’s out an operatic ahhh* Music is so much fun.
Subterraen – Rotten Human Kingdom
Above all else, Rotten Human Kingdom is a pissed off beast of an album, a creature formed from the earth itself, sent forth by its mother for the vengeance so richly deserved.
Yaotl Mictlan – Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar
Through the structure of black metal, Yaotl Mictlan bring the listener back to those ancient Mayan times in an incredibly visceral way.
Heads For The Dead – Into The Red
I’m craving for your blood
Andry Lagiou – Interview 11/27/20
I always have a story behind them, but when I upload the song with a video, people notice it and understand what I want to say. It’s a performance! People want to see me, not just hear me.
Voivod – The Lost Machine
“The machine was going full on. We were really tight and the vibe was great.” – Away
Bog Wizard – From The Mire
Ultimately, From The Mire is an album not to be slept on. If taken seriously, it will take you on a dark journey into the recesses of your imagination.
Abstract The Light – Magna Sapientia Quaerere – To The Depths Of Thy Soul
With plenty of variety in every aspect of their collective sound, you’ll find yourself claiming favorite parts of the music scattered throughout.
EYES – Underperformer
These tracks are great for getting the blood pumping, and they urge you to get up and flail around.
Mizmor & Andrew Black – Dialetheia
These two tracks seem to exist nowhere. They are blank, bleak landscapes that hold nothing but a relentless wind that carries upon it sounds that cannot be described; a howling upon some unknown and unseen plane of existence.
Precaria – Nigraluminiscencia
“Nigraluminiscencia” starts with a second or two of infernal fires crackling until you’re right where the music wants you, disoriented in dissonance and feeling the flames of your inner-hell.
