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 …