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Lycus - Chasms
Written by Justin C. Artwork by Paolo Girardi If you find funeral doom to be a bit too languid at times, Lycus has the solution to your problems. Their new album, Chasms, is a particularly intense kind...
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Author & Punisher - Melk en Honing
Written by Calen Henry. Artwork by Russell MacEwan / Force Majeure Art Tristan Shone’s Author & Punisher might be the most literally metal band in existence. Shone makes his brand of industrial...
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Label Spotlight: Transylvanian Tapes. Vol. 4
Written by Craig Hayes. This is the third in a continuing series of posts highlighting recent releases from Oakland, California-based label Transylvanian Tapes. I first encountered the label back in...
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Latitudes - Old Sunlight
Written by Sean Golyer. Artwork by Thomas Neulinger Latitudes is a band that has largely (and criminally) flown under the radar amongst metalheads for far too long. Even I admit to this guilt having...
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Dave’s Demo Roundup Vol. VIII
Written by Dave Schalek. The holidays are a distant memory. The demos are coming at me fast and furious, let’s get right to them, shall we? Here’s a three song demo from Kriegzittern, a German duo...
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Wildernessking - Mystical Future - 1
Written by Ulla Roschat Disguised as the second full length atmospheric black metal album of South African four piece band Wildernessking, “Mystical Future” is in reality… a dream… a sweet dream, a sad...
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Wildernessking - Mystical Future - 2
Written by Justin C. I've gotten into a somewhat unfortunate pattern lately, ending each year with some unpleasant surgical procedure. Luckily, I've also gotten hold of album promos around the same...
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Satan's Fall - Seven Nights / Tyfon's Doom - Yeth Hound
Written by Andy Osborn. Finland has a complicated history with heavy metal. While it’s clear Oz’s 1983 classic Fire In The Brain was the birth of the genre in the country, few bands kept the tradition...
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Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
Written by Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Artwork by Paolo GirardiChthe’ilist sound like Demilich. There, we’ve gotten that out of the way. Greetings and salutations, friends. Today, we will plumb the...
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Premiere: Urgehal - Aeons in Sodom
Metal Bandcamp proudly presents our first ever full album premiere, featuring the new, and final, Urgehal album Aeons in Sodom, which will be released February 12 on the Season of Mist Bandcamp....
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Label Spotlight: Unspeakable Axe Records
Written by Kevin Page. Unspeakable Axe Records hailing from Athens, Georgia got its start in 2013 as a sub label of Dark Descent Records. Their primary focus are bands with a more thrash oriented sound...
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Nonsun - Black Snow Desert
Written by Karen A. Mann. Listening to Black Snow Desert, the debut from Ukrainian instrumental doom/drone/blackgaze duo Nonsun, is like taking a pilgrimage through a constantly changing landscape. The...
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Odyssey - Voids
Written by Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. I, your venerable Professor, have joined you today to discuss a band near and dear to my own heart, Spokane-based...
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Hyperion - Seraphical Euphony
Written by Andy Osborn. Cover Art by Alex Tartsus The term ‘Dissection clone’ gets thrown around a lot. While not necessarily an insult, it attempts to classify the many bands trying to recreate the...
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Short and to the point 1.
Written by Aaron Sullivan. Artwork by Dusty PetersonBehold! The Monolith return with their third full length, Architects of the Void. This marks the first album with their new line up since the passing...
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Tanagra - None of This Is Real
Written by Calen Henry. Cover artwork by Gary TongeTanagra sounds like five guys who met while playing Magic: the Gathering, discovered they were all also into Sci-fi, history, and power metal and...
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Suppressive Fire - Bedlam
Written by Karen A. Mann. Artwork by Pär Olofsson You can get a sense of what Suppressive Fire has to offer just by looking at the cover art for their debut full-length, Bedlam. In a burning,...
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Eight Bells - Landless
Written by Justin C. Art by Nate Burns So this is the part of the review where I need to tell you what sub- or sub-sub-genre this album belongs to so you can decide whether you hate it or not and move...
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Label Spotlight: Iron Bonehead Productions
Written by Kevin Page. Iron Bonehead Productions of Germany has scoured the earth since 1995 to find all that is evil, disgusting and nasty to release for our listening pleasure. There seemingly isn't...
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Slaves BC - All is Dust and I am Nothing
Written by Matt Hinch. Artwork by Josh Thieler from Slaves BCI've known about Slaves BC due to their heavy Twitter presence but that's as far as it went. Until now. All is Dust and I am Nothing will...
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