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Woe - Withdrawal - 3
Review by Craig Hayes. Design by Justin Miller Withdrawal, in many of its forms, can be extremely painful. It can scorch your bones from the inside out, thread razor-wire through every corpuscle, and...
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Dirge - Elysian Magnetic Fields
Dirge's Elysian Magnetic Fields from 2011 is industrial tinged atmospheric sludge metal. Tracks ebb and flow, from ambient noise to huge riffs, that moves the songs forward with an almost unstoppable...
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St Barthelemy's Temple - The Sheol Unfold
Review by Aaron Sullivan.Art by Jurictus Neccato It seems adding elements of Black Metal to your music just makes it better. Like peanut butter to chocolate or adding bacon to, well anything really....
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Batillus - Concrete Sustain
Review by Justin C. We've all had the experience: A band you've been following puts out a new album. You get it, press play, and think, "Wait, this isn't the [insert band name here] I remember! Why did...
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Paroxsihzem - Paroxsihzem
Review by Atanamar Sunyata.Art by Krag from Paroxsihzem I’m a sucker for guitar tone. The right shade of raging will draw me into an album; the right riffs will make me stick around. On their debut...
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Cult of Erinyes - A Place to Call My Unknown
The enigmatically titled A Place to Call My Unknown by Cult of Erinyes, available on Les Acteurs de l'Ombre Productions Bandcamp, is a hidden gem of majestic black metal. This is the Belgian bands...
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Agrimonia - Rites of Separation
In a short time the Southern Lord Bandcamp has doubled in size. The latest addition is Rites of Separation, the brand new full-length by Swedish band Agrimonia. We covered their self-titled debut here...
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Sinistrous Diabolus - Total Doom//Desecration
Review by Craig Hayes. Twenty years. That's how long we've waited for Sinistrous Diabolus's debut full-length, Total Doom//Desecration. Back in 1993 the Christchurch, New Zealand-based band released...
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The Psyke Project - Guillotine
Review by Majbritt Levinsen . 1st of April 2013 the album Guillotine from Danish sludge/hardcore metal band The Psyke Project was released. This is brutal blackened sludgy post-hardcore at it's finest....
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Boneworm - Boneworm
Review by Ulla Roschat. Boneworm are a three piece Sludge/Doom band from Portland/Oregon/USA, formed in 2012. Their self titled debut album was released in the same year! The album consists of only...
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Anciients - Heart of Oak
Guest review by Sean Golyer. From the shores of Vancouver emerge heavy metal newcomers Anciients and their debut full-length album Heart of Oak. Drawing from nearly all corners of the metal spectrum...
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Locrian – The Clearing & The Final Epoch
Review by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Locrian are one of those consummately creative bands that take genuine pleasure in their ability to sweetly torture and shock the...
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Unsacred Seed - Unsacred Seed
Artwork by Eric Styler Canadian band Unsacred Seed has just released their self-titled debut album. This is well done groovy blackened death metal. Very solid riffing, not super brutal or technical....
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Graves at Sea - Documents of Grief - Split with Asunder
One of the most anticipated concerts at the Heavy Days In Doom Town festival was Graves at Sea's closing set on Saturday. The band returned to active duty last year after a 4 year hiatus, and this was...
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Yawning Sons - Ceremony to the Sunset
Review by Aaron Sullivan. To speak of Yawning Sons one must first speak of Yawning Man. Yawning Man came from the same California deserts that birthed Kyuss. In fact they started in 1986 (although...
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Demoncy - Joined In Darkness
Artwork by Michael Riddick Demoncy's Joined In Darkness from 1999 was remastered and re-released by Negative Existence in 2007. This is truly eerie black metal. The use of 7-string guitars and 5-string...
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Taurus - Life
Review by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Taurus are a psychedelic doom duo from Portland, OR, that are self-releasing Life as they prepare to support doomed and blackened...
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Deathcode Society - Ite Missa Est - Indiegogo campaign
Review by Justin C. Deathcode Society describe themselves as "symphonic black metal." I usually get nervous when I see "symphonic," fearing music dripping with cheesy-sounding synths and overwrought...
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Ade - Spartacus
Artwork by Phlegeton Art Studio Ade's new full-length Spartacus is available on the Blast Head Records Bandcamp. The Italien band calls their music "Ancient Roman Death Metal" and it is a fitting...
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Cssaba - Underground Lo-Fi Songs
Review by Majbritt Levinsen. So a mail landed in my mailbox telling me a 'new' album from Cssaba was available on bandcamp. As I am a curious person I had to go hear what it was all about. I hit play...
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