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Krypts - Remnants of Expansion
By Craig Hayes. It’s been a few years since we’ve heard from Finnish death and doom metal necromancers Krypts. But here they are again, crawling from the black-hearted catacombs with their...
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Netherbird - The Grander Voyage
By Hera Vidal. Netherbird has been around since 2004, and, after going through a brief break-up period, the band returns with The Grander Voyage, their fourth album. If you are a long-time listener of...
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Bearstorm - Biophobia
By Matt Hinch. Remember when Kvelertak sort of blew minds with their combination of black metal vocals and mostly hardcore music? Given their recent output it's getting harder to remember the impact of...
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Terra - Mors Secunda
By Justin C. Last week I told you about Ash Borer's long-form black metal, but on their new album, Terra laughs at those tiny 12-minute songs. Why stop there when you can push the 20-minute mark? Just...
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Lantlôs - Melting Sun
By Sean Golyer. Uninteresting. Slow. Samey. All words that ran through my mind upon first listen years back, and subsequent listens. I didn’t think much of it back then and sorta wrote it off as a...
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Cokegoat - Drugs and Animals
By Karen A. Mann. Despite my love of alcohol, I’ve never had a Long Island Iced Tea. Any drink with tequila, vodka, light rum, triple sec, and gin seems like a sure ticket to an evening full of regrets...
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From The Metal Archives Vol 4.
[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 The Metal Archives are a great help when doing...
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Angela Martyr - The November Harvest
By Justin C. When I see band with a "for fans of" list that includes Godflesh, Slowdive, and Alice in Chains, I really have no choice but to check it out. That's how Angela Martyr's debut, The November...
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Woe - A Spell for the Death of Man
A remastered version of Woe's debut full-length A Spell for the Death of Man is now available on Bandcamp. This is pure black metal. Not depressive, not atmospheric, and certainly not symphonic. Thick...
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Mesarthim - The Great Filter
By Calen Henry. Mesarthim's first record, Isolate, took Bandcamp by storm in 2015, with little to no fanfare. The innocuous band and album name, accompanied by a NASA photo of the Horsehead Nebula hid...
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Teitanblood - Accursed Skin
By Steven Leslie. You have to love a band that throws a big middle finger up to convention and unafraid of getting lost in the shuffle of December album of the year lists, drops one of the best EPs of...
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'Tis the season...
'Tis the season and we're taking a short holiday break. See you again in four (or five) days. It is also the season for making end of year lists, and in that spirit here is the Metal Bandcamp list of...
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Best of 2016 - Power Metal Edition
By Andy Osborn. Good power metal is rare on Bandcamp. Whether that says something about the genre’s overall lack of popularity, or that the best stuff is controlled by a handful of labels with no...
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Toke - (Orange)
By Karen A. Mann. Hailing from Wilmington, NC (home of Weedeater, Sourvein and ASG), Toke, carry on the Cape Fear smoked-out sludge tradition but take it on their own anxiety-laden negative trip. They...
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The Vomiting Dinosaurs - Exoplanets
By Justin C. I reviewed some heavy albums near the end of 2016, and I mean "heavy" in every sense. Anagnorisis put together a powerful, multi-layered chunk of personal history, and I talked about...
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2016
2016 was a shitty year in many ways, but not when it came to new metal releases. I usually argue that there's no such thing as a bad year for metal, but 2016 certainly proved that some years are better...
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Nuclear War Now! Label Spotlight: Sacrificio, Death Worship and Bestial Raids
By Steven Leslie. The warlords behind Proclamation have returned. While I’ve seen this, their first full length, referred to as war metal in some places, likely because of the band photos and member...
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Madder Mortem - Red in Tooth and Claw
By Kevin Page. I always find that reviewing an album by one of my favorite bands is a double edged sword. On one hand I'm more than willing to give it the time to sink in and appreciate it, Yet on the...
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Suppressive Fire - Nature of War
By Karen A. Mann. North Carolina’s war-obsessed death-thrashers Suppressive Fire offered their first full-length in early 2016 with Bedlam, a powerful slab of Teutonic-inspired military thrash that had...
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Forndom - Dauðra Dura
By Hera Vidal. Atmospheric black metal has always been my favorite kind of black metal due to the eerie softness of the music and the slow build-up between major movements. However, what I like most...
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