Rage and Frustration
Heavy Metal Reviews & Interviews
Scorched – Echoes of Dismemberment
The opening riffs…seem to take their time clomping up the stairs with the realization that killing you may be more of a challenge than they thought.
Void Omnia – Dying Light
Dying Light is a rich, layered album full of black metal darkness.
Vrtra – My Bones Hold A Stillness
The rather vivid imagery in my head every time I listen to these roughly 30 minutes over three tracks is of being lost in sea. At night. In the eye of a brewing storm.
Morbo/Bunker 66 – Into the Morbid Bunker Split 7″
Sometimes 12 minutes of savagery is all you need.
Sumerlands – Sumerlands
They remind me of the better bands of that generation before it went full hair metal, with even a touch of NWOBHM in the mix. Instead, they are really the new wave of American heavy metal.
Minenwerfer/1914 – Ich hatt einen Kameraden
As a historical album, really as an album in general, Ich hatt einen Kameraden (I have a comrade) is a masterpiece.
Cara Neir/Wildspeaker – Guilt and His Reflection
The final track on the album, His Reflection, is not only the best track on the album and the best work by Wildspeaker, but stands up well to any other crust track you care to name.
Sea of Bones/Ramlord – Split
The band plays a nasty blend of crust, hardcore punk, and black metal, creating a hybrid all their own. The sound is filthy, rotten, and drags you bodily into the void, caring nothing for scrapes and bruises inflicted on the way down.
Iron Gavel/Black Tar Prophet – Split
These beats drive the destructive feeling of their music along with their deep tones and overall style of playing.
Guitar Force – Different Universe
Altogether, with these elements, you have a very good sounding heavy metal band that I could listen to on my way to work, getting hyped for a workout, or just making every day epic!
Disevered – Hammers of Blasphemy
The six songs make you feel like you’re in the middle of street fight.
Truckfighter – V
The music was heavy, gloomy, and all around wonderful.
Surgeon – Beast of Light
Surgeon is a different animal entirely, a feral hunting creature of controlled savagery.
Myrkur – Mausoleum
Mausoleum carries you deep into your own emotions, raw though they may be, and asks your to face them unflinchingly, to see the beauty and the light as well as the darkness and deep, deep sadness.
Death Requisite – Second Death
Sarasota, Florida-based Death Requisite offer up a 20+ minute EP of symphonic-blackened death metal that shows a lot of promise for their future.
Swamp Witch – The Slithering Bog
While listening to the music, you find yourself taken on a journey through the lair of a witch. The bass lines within the songs are haunting and lure you deeper into the lair of the music and make you curious as to what is to come.
Motorowl – Om Generator
The album Om Generator is filled with some great feelings of nostalgia and new twists that make for a good album.
Morrow – Covenant of Teeth
Morrow have captured pure emotion and used it to create a texture of love and pain, hope, forgiveness, and desperation, sorrow and strength.
Cloud Rat – Discography 2010-2015
The three-piece … play an in your face style of highly charged, experimental grindcore.
Feral Light – A Sound of Moving Shields
Take past members of Wolvhammer, Empires, Manetheren, and Finger of Scorn. Stir until well blended. Mix in frosty Scandinavian black metal draughts of venom. Shake well. Sprinkle with British crusty gutter filth. Bake until bleak and urgent. Serve cold as death.
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