The Night Watch – Boundaries
The music is challenging, but the presentation is deliciously unusual, and while one might envision such a piece as a cult classic…
Koneskin – Liberty Place
On Liberty Place, their new EP, the Italian three-piece band Koneskin conjure up a groove, fall into place, and never seem to look back…
They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth
They Mostly Come Out At Night – Scorched Upon This Earth Band – They Mostly Come Out At Night Album – Scorched Upon This Earth Country of Origin – USA Genre – Post-Metal Release Date – May 18th, 2016 Label – Independent Author...
Rail Yard Ghosts – Hiræth
Imagine, if you will, somewhere in an alternate dimension, Johnny Cash, Crass, and Mumford and Sons engaged in an open relationship which resulted in a child. That child would be the Rail Yard Ghosts.
Castle – Welcome to the Graveyard
Vocally, she reminds me of a siren, luring you in. The difference is that she is not luring you to sea, but to your eternal damnation.
Sallow Moth – Moss Deceptiva
Moss Deceptiva is a brutally beautiful meditation on the destructiveness of modern society… It is with this weapon of musical destructiveness that we will be cleansed.
Bifid Corpse – Dead and Decaying
The whole EP comes at you like a wounded bear, perhaps mortally wounded, but still having enough strength to eviscerate you on its way out. Dead & Decaying is filthy and ugly in the best possible way.
Scour – Scour
The short EP gives the sense of a relentless, many clawed demon screaming across the landscape for the sole purpose of rending flesh from bone.
Quinta Essentia – Initiates of the Great Work
I always love an album which forces me into some involuntary reaction, especially an album that touches whichever part of my lizard brain causing headbanging. Initiates in the Great Work is just such an album.
Nox – Ancestral Arte Negro 7″
It can be difficult to find worthwhile black metal in the underground, but also well worth the effort. The swirling riffs, brutal blasting, and flesh-rending vocal delivery of this brief release make it one of the black jewels that keep you looking.