Category: Review
LINGUA IGNOTA fuses the sacred & profane into a tragic statement of triumph with “Caligula”
Ask the average music listener to define “heavy”. Perhaps chugging riffs, breakneck speed, grotesque and offensive lyrics gurgled through a phlegm lined throat that seems to only despise and hate? Yes, that is heavy. To …
COVENANT FESTIVAL V RETROSPECTIVE: Congregation of Timeless Deathcraft
You see them. Your people. A few on the bus, all exit at the same stop, start the walk up the hill. Hoodies with patches adorned, the tell-tale scrawl hieroglyphics of black and death metal …
DRAB MAJESTY stares longingly into the abyss through the non-terrestrial “Modern Mirror”
Whatever extra dimensional fountain of inspiration that the electric duo of Deb Demure and Mona D are tapped into, it has yet to fail them, and only continues to raise them at a steep incline …
CUT THE LIGHT approach tenebrous forms through black formlessness on “Aphotic”
Black Mara Records from Russia is a label this world needs when dark music has grown alarmingly safe and predictable. The dark ambient genre seems especially tame these days, often with artists prioritizing production values …
CONCRETE WINDS reanimates the corpse of Vorum into a full frenzy on “Primitive Force”
It’s not widely known what led to the dissolution of the well loved Finnish death metal force that was Vorum, yet if the sound of Concrete Winds’ debut is any indication, it was no quick …
KRYPTS collapse the veil between life & death with “Cadaver Circulation”
After nearly 3 years Finland’s finest, Krypts, rear their ugly heads, black viscera draining from their maws. A worthy bearer to the popular title “cavernous”, Cadaver Circulation is a harrowing delve into a stagnant black …
ARES KINGDOM conjure the vitriol of their collective work on “By the Light of Their Destruction”
Harnessing the legacy of past and present potency, US Death\Thrash veterans Ares Kingdom return with their 4th and strongest album to date By the Light of Their Destruction. From the onset this album exudes power. …
SUPERSTITION contort the spiritual & mental with ancient forces of death on “The Anatomy of Unholy Transformation”
Beyond the dark caverns of death, the dark and flesh like caves of disease that prevail in death metal as of now, a new ferocious form of bereavement dawns over the blood red sky. This …
SENTIENT RUIN Roundup: Miscarriage, Sutekh Hexen, and Suspiral intent
A trio of mind-bending tape releases has emerged from the Bay Area’s Sentient Ruin in recent months, with Miscarriage, Sutekh Hexen and Suspiral intent on royally ruining your evening. As the hideous musical propaganda arm …
MISÐYRMING revels in fury and disgust on the Dionysian “Algleymi”
It is a good time to be alive for fans of black metal. Within the last decade the genre seems to have undergone a wave of rapid international expansion, at the forefront of which we …