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10 Nazi-Punching Metal Albums to Celebrate May Day
By Kim Kelly. Happy May Day! Around the world, May 1 is traditionally celebrated as International Workers Day (except in the U.S. where our craven authoritarian government pushes “Loyalty Day” on us...
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We Miss Live Music So Much (A Roundup)
The mass cancellations of metal shows, tours, and festivals due to the Covid-19 pandemic has made me think about what live music means to me. Obviously the bands are hit much harder by this than those...
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We Miss Live Music So Much (Hamferð)
Hamferð was the last band I saw before the Covid-19 pandemic shut everything down. With nothing in between, their set has stuck with me to this day. It was a welcome release at the end a somewhat...
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We Miss Live Music So Much (Beastwars)
By Calen Henry. "Damn the Sky" was the first song where I got Beastwars. From that single track I was hooked and tore through their discography just in time, unfortunately, for them to go on hiatus...
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Cauldron Black Ram - Slaver
By Bryan Camphire.. If you don't already know, Cauldron Black Ram are living death metal legends from Oz. This band has been making uncompromising original death metal since 1996. Slaver, their new...
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It's Bandcamp Friday Again.
It's Bandcamp Friday again, and for the third time they're waiving their fees. Originally the Fridays were meant as support for bands who had to cancel shows and tours because of the Covid-19 pandemic,...
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Ulthar - Providence
By Bryan Camphire. I saw Ulthar perform much of this set here in Texas last year. I knew they were good, I had their debut full length. The righteous album art drew me in, plus the fact that they were...
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Raphael Weinroth-Browne - Worlds Within
By Matt Hinch. Wake's previous album, Misery Rites, should have garnered the attention of anyone who hadn't been paying attention already. It was a potent blend of black metal and grinding madness....
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Eye of Nix - Ligeia
By Justin C. A tidy genre tag for Eye of Nix is elusive. We could go with Black/Doom/Avant Garde, from their Bandcamp page, and that’s more or less O.K., but that leaves out the gothic, psychedelic,...
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Dawn of Ouroboros - The Art of Morphology
By Master of Muppets. Versatility is a tough thing to pull off well. Too much of it and any given album is likely to be a jarring mess, not enough and it's Disturbed. While older, seasoned acts tend to...
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Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin - Stygian Bough Volume I
By Justin C. You’d be forgiven for thinking Stygian Bough Volume 1 was a split, since it does list both Bell Witch and Aerial Ruin as artists, but it’s a bit more complicated than that. This album...
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Kamancello - Of Shadows
Cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne is no stranger to Metal Bandcamp at this point. Matt Hinch recently reviewed his solo album Worlds Within on these very pages just a few weeks ago. Matt listed...
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Overthrow to Overgrow
Mark Duggan (2011), Michael Brown (2014), Eric Garner (2014), Tamir Rice (2014), Sheku Bayoh (2015), Walter Scott (2015), Dalian Atkinson (2016), Philando Castile (2016), Alton Sterling (2016), Rashan...
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Nodus Tollens - Melancholic Waters Ablaze with the Fires of Loss
By Justin C. When I went to confirm the Bandcamp link for the debut album from Nodus Tollens, I came across the definition of the name itself at a link titled Thoroughlly Depressing Word of the Day....
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Osyron - Foundations
By Calen Henry. A press release in my inbox announcing Osyron's new album Foundations was the first I heard of them. The Calgary band’s album was billed as a symphonic power prog metal album “exploring...
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Sigh - Hail Horror Hail
An Autothrall Classic. Sigh is one of the best metal bands in the world, but until this release, they were simply a very good black metal band from Japan, doing a familiar style with a cool ethnic...
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Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum
By Bryan Camphire. The music of Khthoniik Cerviiks looms large amidst a rich and storied history of underground German bands who make uncompromising extreme metal. Æequiizoiikum, their sophomore full...
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Vassafor - To The Death
By Bryan Camphire. To the Death is Vassafor's grand statement to glorify Satan and all that is evil through music. The album - the band's third studio recording - is a high watermark in uncompromising...
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Mesarthim - The Degenerate Era
By Calen Henry. The meta is extremely consistent for Mesarthim albums. A new one drops with no warning, giving no information, with a title referencing an esoteric cosmic concept. It always musically...
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Bull Elephant - Created From Death
By Calen Henry. Anonymous UK collective Bull Elephant's sophomore album picks up where the debut left off and this time the band are less cagey about the subject matter, giving a pretty clear overview...
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Ars Magna Umbrae - Apotheosis
By Bryan Camphire. The Great Art of Shadows. This is one possible translation of Ars Magna Umbrae. This Latin name may not easily roll off the tongue, but no matter. Listening to this music, it's...
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Lares - Towards Nothingness
By Ulla Roschat. Towards Nothingness is the sophomore album of the four piece German Berlin based band Lares. The band founded in 2015 and this album follows up their first EP Mask of Discomfort from...
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Toadeater - Bit to ewigen daogen
By Justin C. While discussing this album with a friend, an obvious question came up: What the hell is a toadeater? The interwebs provided the answer: "Originally, a charlatan's helper who ate (or...
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Vigor Reconstruct: A Benefit For The Soroka Family
Here at Metal Bandcamp we have been fans of Markov Soroka's many projects for years. Like Drown, Aureole, Krukh, and of course the mighty Tchornobog. This, though, is not a celebration of another new...
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Spirit Adrift - Enlightened in Eternity
By Calen Henry. Despite being written in 2019 Spirit Adrift's fourth album, Enlightened in Eternity, sounds inexorably linked to 2020. By splitting the difference between the somber doom metal of...
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