Extreme rarity, obscurity and zero provenance offer some of the biggest thrills of collecting where the chase is […]
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Though obviously open to interpretation in modern times Homeric descriptions of a hecatomb, a hundred head slaughter in […]
Aging quickly as the world crumbles in piles around them, the Swiss fellows that make up Coilguns have […]
A mysterious force within Portuguese raw black metal for nearly a decade, Wømb finally achieve the unreal in […]
Formed in 2016 this Portuguese black metal project formed with great influence from the rising tide of occult […]
Grinding like a blender full of chicken bones, LSD and dog shit San Jose/Oakland, California’s Deathgrave create a […]
In hindsight the sordid discography of Bay Area avant-dark metal/post-black metal quintet Ludicra was forward-thinking. Equally invested and […]
No greater unrest exists than that of rabid Swedish melodic death metal fans patiently waiting out the ‘dissolution […]
This relatively short 7″ EP comes as prime excerpt from an improvisational session melding the drumming of Michel […]
In his Dissertations sur les apparitions des anges, des démons et des esprits, et sur les revenants et […]
Intentional flow, a sense of movement, can either ‘make’ progressive music or clog it’s arteries with misguided repetition. […]
Dissociative fugue is a slowly reversible amnesia of one’s own identity, a lapse of self that comes from […]
Although they were birthed in gore and blasphemic brutal death in the late 90’s by 2014 Bangkok, Thailand […]
Ever an offering to the self-deprecating abyss of existence Lappeenranta, Finland based project Kuilu have spent nearly a […]
Swedish death metal label Wrong Again Records was, in hindsight, off to an incredible start in releasing formative […]
Here I present, in no particular order, roughly 30 releases from 2017 that I overlooked or did not […]
Echoing as if birthed from the miles-long depths of North America’s greatest lava tubes Cavurn‘s first demo showcases […]
The blending of esoteric or extreme metal sub-genre has surely proven worthy practice over the last several decades […]
Resembling the rhythmic birth of garage-riffed, 80’s death metal history Ithaca, New York old school death metal band […]
Conceived by guitarist/vocalist Colin Tarvin in his late teens with great influence from the crusted, slaughterhouse ways of […]
