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Verwoed - The Mother
With Roadburn week over and me slowly going back to my usual routine, it's time to reflect and look back on what I ended up seeing and what I ended up skipping, and most importantly, to make amends. Read more ›› |
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Frail Body - Artificial Bouquet
With Roadburn week over and me slowly going back to my usual routine, it's time to reflect and look back on what I ended up seeing and what I ended up skipping, and most importantly, to make amends. Read more ›› |
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The Vision Bleak - Weird Tales
The Vision Bleak holds true as a title for this duo, who tell such Weird Tales of sorrowful blackened gothic misery. Read more ›› |
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Vulcano - Epilogue
This Vulcano has been spewing out hot death/thrash metal for over 4 decades now, but could this Epilogue spell the end of their lengthy eruption? Read more ›› |
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Griefgod - Deterioration
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Austere - Beneath The Threshold
Making up for lost time. Read more ›› |
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High On Fire - Cometh The Storm
When he first launched High On Fire, Matt Pike had to learn to push beyond the doomy confines of Sleep and let loose. Over two decades of ripping thrashy sludge later, High On Fire seem to have shifted their focus slightly back towards heaviness rather than speed this time around. Read more ›› |
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Ὁπλίτης - Παραμαινομένη
Last year, J.L. seemed to be the busiest black metal composer around. While the production and some of the musical ideas in this new album need to be more developed, it is safe to say that Ὁπλίτης (Hoplites) has reached a new high in its young yet productive career. Read more ›› |
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Castle Rat - Into The Realm
This Castle Rat is here to take you Into The Realm of the most obscure traditional doom. Read more ›› |
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Týr - Battle Ballads
It seems Týr have been away at battle for the last 5 years, as they now return with glorious Battle Ballads to sing. Read more ›› |
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Khirki - Κυκεώνας
Khirki unleashed a debut of spiritually epic proportions, taking many of us by surprise; however, they've now set themselves a high benchmark with Κυκεώνας. Can their sophomore possibly live up to the standards of their memorable debut? Read more ›› |
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Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
It would perhaps surprise certain users to see their Auntie Sahar (formerly known as “Apothecary”) reviewing an album of this nature. Yet would you all dare to believe that, prior to my coronation as Metal Storm Drone Empress in the 2010s, I was a thrash / tech death fiend in the late 2000s? Read more ›› |
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Arð - Untouched By Fire
Arð is a Northumbrian project masterminded by Mark Deeks (also of Winterfylleth), who is a piano teacher, author, and a choir arranger and conductor, among other things. The band’s music is described as ‘monastic doom’. Keep reading to find out what this means. Read more ›› |
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Nocturna - Of Sorcery And Darkness
I spent a lot of time in my review of Nocturna’s debut album referring to Nightwish, but while the band still clearly belongs to that symphonic power metal lineage, they are successfully forging their own identity with Of Sorcery And Darkness. Read more ›› |
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Dvne - Voidkind
As I mentioned when reviewing the recent Rolo Tomassi album, releasing a seminal record brings its own challenges in having to sustain that standard going forward. It’s a challenge that Rolo Tomassi ably rose to back in 2022, and it’s one that Dvne have accomplished with Voidkind. Read more ›› |
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La Torture Des Ténèbres - V
Lost in the dissonant void. Read more ›› |