Death metal ‘authenticity’ scarcely matters to the general audience the genre speaks to primarily because it is so […]
2017
The latest from this unassuming Arizona based doom metal band is one of the biggest surprises of the […]
This heavy and inspired Australian doom/stoner metal band owes a lot to the best of Cathedral, before Dorrian […]
The muttering stagnation of Enslaved’s increasingly progressive sound is an argument for the ‘metal mind’ versus the ‘progressive […]
I have what I like to call ‘vampire dog‘ teeth. Sharp incisors that ride a little higher on […]
Funeral doom metal’s inception was initially an otherworldly minimalist take on the overly romanticized Peaceville style death/doom movement. […]
The cold, very real, wet cherry blossom and maple leaf squishy streets of Portland were my home for […]
My understanding of the aged and earthen career of Shamaatae doesn’t often progress beyond admiration towards transfixion because […]
The second full-length from Primitive Man is a long-winded, repetitive, eternally exploding nail bomb of punishment that flattens […]
Originally hailing from the frosted and damned literal middle-of-nowhere Sørreisa in Norway, a random hyper sludge duo named after a […]
Toronto based old school death metal wraiths Tomb Mold make their best impression in short bursts. Their coffin-birthed […]
Kadavar’s unruly corpses are giving me life as the ghoulish world full of idiotic mutants around me never […]
Upon learning one part of Chthe’ilist, the heady guitar part, had been long ruminating a more spiritual journey […]
For decades The Chasm has been my life’s blood, a source of personal inspiration and a true taste-maker […]
Not to be confused with Greek atmospheric death metal band of the same name, this third album from […]
After three soul-searching albums Inanimate Existence have found their most palatable and least derivative identity to date. Evolving […]
It seems that every week in 2017 a new progressive death metal album is released that entirely banks […]
When boiling down an album like ‘Upon My Cremation Pyre’ into it’s broadest strokes and deepest minutiae it […]
Seprevation’s debut full-length ‘Consumed’ was a solid death/thrash statement from a band after my own heart. The love […]
There couldn’t be a more awkward way to start this review than to reminisce about the moment I […]
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