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Nocturna - Of Sorcery And Darkness
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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
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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
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Lost in the dissonant void. Read more ›› |
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Judas Priest - Invincible Shield
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Invincible Shield is to Firepower what Defenders Of The Faith was to Screaming For Vengeance: reaffirmation of the recovery, capitalization on the success, the follow-through on a trailblazer. Judas Priest, as ever, delivering the greats. Read more ›› |
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Attic - Return Of The Witchfinder
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By Medieval law, it would surely be an act of violation against traditional occult heavy metal if you were to miss out on this, an act that The Witchfinder would likely punish by burning at the stake. Read more ›› |
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Acid Mammoth - Supersonic Megafauna Collision
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“Dance with the fuzz now, baby. Feed your desire!” Read more ›› |
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Iron Monkey - Spleen & Goad
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As one of the older apes in the jungle, Iron Monkey return to lay down the law on how nasty and groovy Read more ›› |
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Cistvaen - At Light's Demise
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As stated by John Steinbeck in The Winter Of Our Discontent, "It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone", and this is true for Cistvaen; here, they offer atmospheric black in the darkest of forms with At Light's Demise. Read more ›› |
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Darkestrah - Nomad
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What better way is there for Darkestrah to mark their return than by giving you an insight into the life of nomadic Kyrgyzstan? Read more ›› |
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Kólga - Black Tides
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Remember those "original Trve Kvlt surf music" vids on YouTube of surf music versions of black metal? What if a band did that for an entire record, but with original music? Read more ›› |
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Verberis - The Apophatic Wilderness
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A tale in four chapters. An image of man cast into the house of Abaddon. Read more ›› |
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Labyrinthus Stellarum - Vortex Of The Worlds
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If you think you've heard all that atmospheric black metal has to offer, it's time to give the lively and ethereal style of newcomers Labyrinthus Stellarum a go. Read more ›› |
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Riitasointu - Pedon Leikki
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The future looks as bright for the Finnish folk metal duo Riitasointu as their music is blackened. Read more ›› |
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Vulture - Sentinels
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A Brit is critical of the Germans, a tale as old as time. Read more ›› |
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Valerinne - Ver Sacrum
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"For winter's rains and ruins are over, and all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover, the light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, and frosts are slain and flowers begotten, and in green underwood and cover blossom by blossom the spring begins". Read more ›› |
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Sacrificial Vein - Black Terror Genesis
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Dissonant black metal was, at one point, at the avant-garde of metal. But full decades have passed since then, and now it's a sound that has became quite commonplace in metal. Pushing it back towards the avant-garde is something that only the brave do. Sacrificial Vein show some of that bravery. Read more ›› |