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Howls of Ebb - Vigils of the 3rd Eye
Artwork by Wiley TrieffA few days ago the mighty Autothrall posted the first interview ever on From the Dust Returned. The original intention with the blog was, besides the reviews, "to converse with...
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Label spotlight: Invictus Productions
Irish label Invictus Productions has been on Bandcamp for a while now, but I'm quite behind in keeping track, and updating the Metal Labels On Bandcamp page. There are many interesting things on the...
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Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise
Written by Justin C. A few years ago, a friend of a friend gleefully proclaimed that they found a "wrong note" in a U2 song. It was in one of the songs off their 2009 album No Line on the Horizon. I...
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Enabler - All Hail the Void
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Artwork by Jimmy GeigerichMilwaukee, WI harbingers of aggression Enabler have opened a portal to the underworld with All Hail...
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Mares of Thrace - The Pilgrimage
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Canadian doom/noise duo Mares of Thrace, based in Calgary, AB, feature guitarist/vocalist Thérèse Lanz (who plays a custom built...
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Queen Elephantine - Scarab
Written by Ulla Roschat. Art by Adrian DexterScarab (May 2013) is Queen Elephantine’s latest release of four full length albums and several splits and EPs. They originally formed in Hong Kong in 2006,...
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UR - UR
Written by Ulla Roschat. With this self titled album UR present their self-titled debut (2013), consisting of 3 long songs all above the 10 minute mark and a runtime of about 42 minutes altogether. The...
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Welcome to the hall of Hel - Eldjudnir
Review by Majbritt Levinsen. Lets take a trip to Nifelheim and the halls of Hel - where Eldjudnir will tell you tales from the Norse mythology, derived directly from the old Edda Prose of Snorri...
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High Spirits - You Are Here
Written by Matt Hinch. If you're the parent of a little girl, or even spent some time with a little girl in the last 6 months, you've likely found yourself straining to remove songs from the movie...
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Bateman - SMUT
Written by Matt Hinch. It's been some fun times for me lately, at least as far as coverage for Metal Bandcamp goes. The latest in a string of honest-to-goodness fun bands to come my way is Australia's...
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Botanist - Nero di Marte - Void of Sleep crowd-funding
Written by Justin C. Art by M.S. WaldronI came across (and donated to) two crowd-funding efforts that I think are worthy of your attention. One is born of happy circumstances, but the other much less...
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Maveth - Coils of the Black Earth
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Artwork by Daniel DesecratorActive since 2007, releasing an EP, demo and appearing on the Breath of an Abomination compilation,...
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Thrall - Aokigahara Jukai
Written by Justin C. Artwork by Tom Void"Aokigahara Jukai", roughly translated from the Japanese, means "Sea of Trees." It's a relatively small forest in Japan at the base of Mount Fuji, and it's a...
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Circle Takes the Square - Decompositions: Volume Number One
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Artwork by Drew Speziale With Decompositions: Volume Number One, their sophomore release and first record since 2004,...
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The Shrine - Bless Off
Written by Matt Hinch. Cover by Kris KirkNot enough of what I listen to would be considered "fun". Black metal's not fun. Doom's not fun. Death metal's not usually fun. But you know what is fun? A...
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Khonsu - Traveller
Written by by Andy Osborn. One of the most surprising and intriguing debuts of 2012 was Khonsu’s Anomalia. The progressive project flirts with spacey, industrialized black metal that sounds like it’s...
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Nightfell - The Living Ever Mourn
Written by Kevin Page. Kudos to Islander of No Clean Singing for putting this one on my radar. Nightfell, featuring the duo of Tim Call (The Howling Wind, Weregoat, Aldebaran) & Todd Burdette...
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Lord Mantis - Death Mask
Written by Matt Hinch. Artwork by Jef WhiteheadA devastating pedigree breeds devastating progeny. So it follows that the resultant third spawn of the musical breeding of the four entities known as Lord...
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Antiverse - Cosmic Horror
Written by Justin C. Artwork by Pär OlofssonIf you were teaching a university course on history and influence in modern metal, you could easily devote a class session to Antiverse's Cosmic Horror. At...
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Zatokrev - The Bat, the Wheel and a Long Road to Nowhere
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Based in Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, sludge-laden, blackened doom band Zatokrev have released a writhing, shattered slab of sound...
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