Pondering one’s own cosmic nihil from a point of astral projection set inconceivably far away from impending apocalyptic […]
italian metal
An interim release from a project which wears its major points of inspiration on its sleeve, this fairly […]
What is perceived as perfection, exclusive and aloof, yields barren summit in a quest for knowledge beyond the […]
A most supreme medium for airing metaphysical grievance. — For the sake of infinite rediscovery ancient forms dissolve […]
First a curse and then the corpse… stirring beneath, given muscle by necromantic magick, begins cracking back to […]
We take a deeper step into the third decade of progressive death metal prominence with a ninth full-length […]
The illusion of the portal having snapped shut, a space-burnt peremptory thought already begins to bite like so […]
This second full-length from Padua, Italy-based quartet Messa conceptually does away with any reliance on clear-cut stylistic duality […]
With the seal now broken on this sixth book of hymns from Genoa, Italy-based doom metal quartet Abysmal […]
As is the case with many young and impatiently evolving death metal bands still putting in their dues […]
Brescia, Italy based death metal quartet Riexhumation make a point of labeling themselves ‘old school’ for the sake […]
“Wild spires of stone shoot up into the air, barren and clearly defined, in the form (as its […]
The horror of describing the traditions of Italy’s cathedralesque and oft psychedelic brand of prog-adjacent doom metal uprising […]
Columns of fiery pumice, all manner of black volcanic debris ejected as high as the eye can bend […]
The freshly persistent communal psychosis beyond waves of cheap hash and too-sacred LSD that’d been trickling from north-to-south […]
“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: […]
Heed the guru-ājñā, flexing freely with a painterly intuition — Evocation alone is not enough when mental images […]
Restless in limbo between waking hours and sleep, and often with multiple senses alight, the madness of insomnia […]
A multitude of stirred claimant in the destructive torsion of liturgy, a thousand sulfurous candles offer a mere […]
Entrenched deep within the thoroughly bureaucratic system of checks-and-balances experienced in the throes of Duat, facing the second […]