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From The Metal Archives Vol 1.
Written by reviewers from The Metal Archives. When I add labels to the Metal Labels On Bandcamp page I usually scan their releases looking for anything interesting I might have missed. The reviews on...
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Kowloon Walled City - Grievances
Written by Matt Hinch. Kowloon Walled City landed on my radar back in 2013 with Container Ships. I was floored and pretty much said as much when I reviewed it. The heavy-ass sludge played right into my...
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Skáphe - Skáphe²
Written by Kaptain Carbon. Artwork by H.V LyngdalWhen approached to review Skáphe’s second full length, I was ecstatic. To begin, 2014 was the year I started skipping down the harrowing path of the...
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Make - In Pursuit
Written by Karen A. Mann. Artwork by Pär OlofssonI wrote last year that The Golden Veil by North Carolina’s Make was the best album I’ve ever heard by a North Carolina band. I am lucky to live in a...
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Morast - Demo
Written by Ulla RoschatMorast is a pretty young four piece band from NRW/Germany. They introduce themselves with a demo of four songs of blackened death doom with an overall playing time of about 26...
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Oranssi Pazuzu - Värähtelijä
Written by Karen A. Mann Finland’s experimental black metalists Oranssi Pazuzu have always reveled in defying genres and expectations. On their fourth album, Värähtelijä, they take their expansive,...
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Couch Slut - My Life as a Woman
Written by Matt Hinch. Pardon my French, but My Life as a Woman by NYC’s Couch Slut is one batshit fucking crazy album. And as I tend to feed off the music’s energy as I write, pardon the rest of my...
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Aeon - Aeons Black
Written by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Cover art by Necrolord Swedish underground death metal slayers Aeon have chosen an even more apocalyptic than usual approach...
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Inverloch - Distance | Collapsed
Written by Justin C. Inverloch's debut EP, Dusk | Subside, came out way back in 2012, right around the time I was getting seriously back into metal (and also around the time my very first review...
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Just the Facts - March 2016
By Kevin Page. Welcome to another installment of Just the Facts. That means less nonsense and drivel you have to endure from my keyboard while getting right to the music at hand. By Kevin Page. Welcome...
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Carpathian Forest - Defending the Throne of Evil
By Autothrall. Carpathian Forest has always stood out among the Norse black metal scene because of their uncanny self awareness. There is of course their propensity to create some of the coldest, most...
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Helgamite - Hypnagogia
By Karen A. Mann. Helgamite, hailing from Virginia’s lush and mystical Shenandoah Valley, describe themselves as "an unearthly giant. … The head of Helgamite stretches out of the earth’s atmosphere and...
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Making Fuck - A Harrowing End
By Matt Hinch. They say not to judge a book by its cover. But what about judging a band by their name? I’d advise against that too. But honestly, Making Fuck did strike me as a “Seriously?” band name....
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Short and to the point 2.
By Steven Leslie. Now this is how you combine ambient/atmospheric music with black metal. Titaan appeared out of nowhere earlier this year and dropped easily one of the most impressive debut albums I...
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Tarot - Reflections
By Jeff Treppel. Not the Tarot with the shouty guy from Nightwish, these Tasmanian devils possess a decidedly anachronistic point of view. This stuff sounds like 70s pulp fantasy book covers look – and...
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Universe217 - Change
By Kevin Page. Change. Always a touchy subject when it comes to metal bands and its fans. On one hand, not everyone wants to hear (and buy) the same album over and over, nor do musicians feel like...
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Iotunn - The Wizard Falls
2016 has already been a good year for metal, with quite a few high profile releases delivering the goods. But, somewhat to my surprise, the album that has left the biggest mark on me so far is the The...
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Judas Iscariot - To Embrace the Corpses Bleeding
By Andy Curtis-Brignell. I discovered my 'thing' pretty late. Not that, don't be stupid - I'm referring to the virulent notion that there's SOMETHING you're supposed to do with your life. By Andy...
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Famyne - Famyne
By Karen A. Mann. Even though their debut EP is only three songs, English traditional doomsters Famyne manage to pack a real wallop in a short amount of time. By Karen A. MannArtwork by Sarah Elizabeth...
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Palace of Worms - The Ladder
By Justin C. Palace of Worms has been putting out solid, off-center USBM for a while now. I first became aware of them when they did a split with Botanist, and I enjoyed those tracks. But their newest,...
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