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Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews
Hollow World – Exanimate
The quintet as a whole has taken the five pieces to really compose an album, where other bands play different instruments, or even just play songs. Exanimate is one of those pieces of artwork where the whole is indeed greater than the sum of the parts.
In The Company of Serpents – Ain-Soph Aur
Pick it up, wring it out, and you’ll have an ocean of feeling. This is one of those albums that simultaneously seems to last a lifetime and an instant, but you feel changed by listening.
Atoll – Fallout Frenzy
Any more than three minutes of exposure could result in radiation poisoning…
Boson – Domain of Ember
It’s a unique blend that I kind of like.
Celeste – Infidele(s)
The quartet draws you along the twisted pathways of a murky labyrinth of darkness. Much like their live performance, they provide the only light, only cutting marginally through the fog, and only where they want you to see.
Dawn Ray’d – The Unlawful Assembly
Dawn Ray’d plays an atmospheric style that is too raw to be atmospheric black metal.
Low Estate – Covert Cult of Death
Intriguing. Bizarre. Lots of push-pull dynamic with changes that come out of nowhere, but seem organic.
Sorcerer – The Crowning of the Fire King
…the band plays an intriguing mix of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and J.R.R. Tolkein.
Desolate Shrine – Deliverance From the Godless Void
Long winded stories aside, and blackened references duly noted, have at least some faith in me that this is good. Oh so good.
Paroxsihzem – Abyss of Excruciating Vexes
If blackened death that sounds as if it has taken a millennium to seep up through the very crust of the Earth sounds like your kind of thing, then I can highly recommend that you get your filthy muckraking hands upon this release.
Undercroft – The Seventh Hex
This is Death crossed with Thrash crossed with Awesome.
H2SO4 – British Bangala Testament
The past is gone, the New Testament has been written, and H2S04 are here bringing us their own chemistry. Four songs of the finest Thrash Metal ever written.
Freaky Jelly – Reverse
Lovers of progressive rock by nature will delight in the sounds of Moog synthesizers, skittering time signatures, churning bass figures, and soaring guitar runs.
Pale Horseman – The Fourth Seal
Making a name for themselves in the MidWest over the last few years, Pale Horseman is one of the next big things to hit the national stage, all with no label backing them.
Fragarak – A Spectral Oblivion
This is the future of Death Metal and India deserves to be on the pedestal as the country producing the very best.
Gutslit – Amputheatre
Since its founding in 2007, Gutslit has been brutalizing Eurasia with its masterful technique and lyrics.
Aeolith – Remnants of a Future Past
Transitioning from high speed guitars to slow grinding doom-ish sections, the tempo changes are music to my ears.
The Revenant – The Walk Through The Shadow of Death
Given their burly mix of sounds, one might call them extreme gutter metal or perhaps filthy murder thrash. In fact, at various points on the album, one can find elements of thrash, old school death metal, hints of black metal, and even an occasional touch of grindcore.
Wormwood – Mooncurse
Together, they create a rhythmic joyride down a cheese grater.
Rig Time – War!
War is there to sound the clarion call that we are perhaps already at war. This is visceral, angry, political punk rock, screamed straight from the heart, metal style.
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