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Best of February 2024
This is coming at you a little late, but enjoy some of our favorites from February 2024.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Icosandria – A Scarlet Lunar Glow Pt. 1
“A Scarlet Lunar Glow” is a powerful statement about to be released on the world.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Mind Prisoner – 3:33
Bleak. Dark. Hopeless. That is the “3:33 EP.”
EXCLUSIVE ALBUM PREMIERE: Wounds – Ruin
The key point here is that the album is excellent, a brutal example of tech death as it should be, chock full of malevolent soul and spiteful menace.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Nuclear Tomb – Fatal Visions
Prominent bass, nasty riffs, and an overall belligerence do make Fatal Visions a memorable track.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Wounds – The Archfiend’s Apothecary
It is clear that the band has a clear and brutal vision, that they are gifted composers, and that they are talented musicians.
EXCLUSIVE VIDEO PREMIERE: Dødsferd – Restoration of Justice
The video contains some live footage, but also scenes of violence, destruction, and civil unrest in recent years in Greece.
My Bandcamp Friday – February
My February Bandcamp Friday pick-ups.
Best of January 2024
We present to you a list of our favorites from the past month.
CLASSIC ALBUM REVIEW: Weakling – Dead As Dreams
Truly a masterpiece.
Hayduke’s 2023 End of Year Round-Up
My massive list, because I didn’t know how to cut it down further.
INTERVIEW + REVIEW: Vinca Difformis – Eye Witness (Single)
Its release by FYC Records & Distro is a testament to the label’s creative vision to produce heartfelt music from whichever genre it pleases.
Rz’s Top 20 of 2023
Rz presents his top 20 of 2023, plus some honorable mentions.
Interview with Erech Leleth (Narzissus, Bergfried, Summer Haze ’99, and more)
I recently had the opportunity to ask Erech Leleth some questions about his work as a musician.
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW + INTERVIEW: Body Void (with Graboids and Pillar of Light)
Why: Because Body Void whips ass, obviously, and it turns out so do Graboids and Pillar of Light
EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM: Engulf – The Dying Planet Weeps
My one complaint is that I wish it were about five minutes longer, but there is something to be said for an album leaving the listener wanting more.
Obroa-Skai – Science Progresses One Funeral at a Time
Science Progresses One Funeral At A Time is a terrific piece of work, haunting, cathartic, beautiful, and devastating.
Narzissus – Akt I: Wille ~ Akt II: Fall ~ Akt III: Erlösung
This release shows all the emotional power available in black metal.
Totenmesse – Fiktionlust
Fiktionlust is more concise and doesn’t have any hiccups in the tracklist
Steel Panther is On The Prowl
You better lock up your daughters (and mothers and probably grandmothers too), because California's greatest export is coming back to the Mitten once again. With not one, but three shows in less than a week, Michigan will be rocked to its core when the Winter...
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Eternal Storm – A Giant Bound To Fall
The members use the various styles of metal as different mediums in their quest to create their artistic statement and are not limited by one single metal trope.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Walking Corpse – Born In Hell
Like a pulsating globe of razor wire and broken glass, the album chases you down intent on psychic destruction.
EXCLUSIVE TRACK STREAM: Bull of Apis Bull of Bronze – Annihilation
Allow the annihilation.
Oerheks – Valkengebed
Both hold that tension of the hunt, while also being suggestive of natural beauty.
