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Starer – The What It Is To Be

Immense. Emotional. Gripping. Mature. All of these are adjectives which could be used to describe The What It Is To Be.

Midnight – Let There Be Witchery

This is Midnight at its prime. It has enough of the blackened punk/speed junkie mix with a dose more of musicianship, and blackened undertones.

Vile Ritual – Tongues of the Exanimate

As black metal and death metal, generally speaking, rise in popularity, and show no signs of slowing down any time soon, we can still find black/death metal hidden away underneath all the grime of the underground.

Bloodgate Track Premier: Death on the Horizon

The first single from the upcoming album, Solace in Mourning by Bloodgate! Check out some blackened thrash about the impending doom of a vastly outnumbered army... this is Death on the Horizon. Death on the Horizon by Bloodgate BLOODGATE’s music is heavily inspired by...

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Dischordia – La Petite Mort

Jump in. Enjoy the chaotic ride. Catch your breath. Repeat.

Vorga – Striving Toward Oblivion

With Vorga’s Striving Toward Oblivion, we will see this branch off of the black metal tree sprout into something epic and special.

Ustalost – Before The Glinting Spell Unvested

The love I have for Yellow Eyes is sprinkled well within the tunes without it being Yellow Eyes 2.0.

Det Eviga Leedent – Reverence

Det Eviga Leedent brings us their sophomore album, ‘Reverence’ with Jacob Buczarski (Mare Cognitum and Acathexis) on vocals, and man! Did they deliver on this one!

Escuela/Disparo – Split

The feral riffs, abrasive rhythms, and punishing vocals will rend a hole in your personal atmosphere.

Chaos Perversion – Petrified Against The Emanation

Come join the ritual. Offer your hand to the feral, sentient darkness. Let the ritual weave you a new skeletal structure. Join the Chaos (Perversion).

Ars Magna Umbrae – Throne Between Worlds

This is not an album to be listened to in the bright daylight. In fact, if you were to try, the world would feel strange and dim as you listened.

Abhoria – Abhoria

Abhoria is a catchy album, with earworm riffs crawling out of the blackness to crawl around in your brain for a while.

Anti Ritual – Expel The Leeches

Lyrically, Anti Ritual speak to the rising wave of fascism (in opposition, of course), the environmental catastrophe we have collectively caused, the oppression of capitalism, and more. In other words, they have every right to be incredibly pissed off. We all do.

Wiegedood – There’s Always Blood At The End Of The Road

…the album [is] rich with feeling, beautiful in the way that a carcass is beautiful as it rots to become one with the earth again.

7 Rainbows In Exile – Twilight Gymnastics

If you were to take The Cure’s sad tune “A Strange Day” and stretch it out into a full-length album, but inject it with the dark danceability of Drab Majesty, then I feel as though you would get Twilight Gymnastics

Olim – A Mighty Disposition

The atmosphere is tense and ominous, while simultaneously being subtly relaxing and full of emotion.

Benthik Zone – εἴδωλον

This third full length by the Portuguese duo travels seamlessly through the strangeness of the deep and the dark.

Rz’s Top 35 Albums of 2021

but here I am, writing a top 35 and I couldn’t be happier about it. Looking forward to writing more reviews in 2022. Without further adieu, my Top 35 albums of 2021!

EXCLUSIVE TRACK PREMIERE: Hellfrost and Fire – Debris Wrought From Winter

Punishing down-tuned death metal riffs, belligerent drumming, and David Ingram’s trademark bellow.

Hayduke’s Top 50 0f 2021

Enjoy Hayduke’s Top 50 of 2021 list.

Vindicator – Communal Decay

I dead set thought I had accidently swtiched to a Voivod album. Now if that isn’t one of the finest compliments you can ever give a band, you may all kiss my lilly white arse.

Seven Nines and Tens – Over Opiated in a Forest of Whispering Speakers

“Over Opiated in a Forest of Whispering Speakers,” their third full length album, will be the band’s first with support from Willowtip Records. It comes out the first Friday of the new year, and I highly suggest you purchase a copy.