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Bölzer - Hero
By Calen Henry. Despite blowing up in the metal underground in 2013, Hero is Bölzer's first full length album. Their legacy is built on a single track, "Entranced by the Wolfshook", featuring a riff so...
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Kyy - Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death
By Justin C. Kyy's first full-length, Beyond Flesh - Beyond Matter - Beyond Death, features songs that mostly stick in the 4-minute range. They get in, rock hard, and get out. The band mostly eschews...
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Domkraft - The End of Electricity
By Matt Hinch. In this particular case “Domkraft” is taken as more or less a play on words with “dom” meaning judgement in Swedish and “kraft” meaning power. Judgement and power. Sounds cool enough....
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Italian ultraviolence: Nomura - Inerte Affondare / Zeit - Monument
By Craig Hayes. Back in 2010, Italian blackened grindcore band The Secret caught my attention with their blistering third album, Solve et Coagula. And a couple years later, the even more intense Agnus...
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The Great Old Ones - EOD: A Tale of Dark Legacy
By Calen Henry. The Great Old Ones (named after the cosmic deities within the Cthulhu mythos) play Cthulhu metal the way Sleep play Stoner metal: with complete devotion. They're all in. From band name...
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Pijn - Floodlit
By Justin C. Pijn (the Dutch word for “pain,” pronounced "pine") is a UK group that's been tagged as "post-metal," even though I've found that to be one of the less-meaningful genre labels going around...
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Vanha - Within the Mists of Sorrow
By Karen A. Mann. Though they've only been together since the summer of 2016, Swedish doom duo Vanha (which is actually Finnish for "old") offer an impressive debut with Within the Mists of Sorrow....
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Old and new Blood: Scum - Garden of Shadows / Setentia - Darkness Transcend
By Steven Leslie. Who doesn’t love Finnish death metal? From Amorphis to Demilich and everywhere between, Finland has produced some world-class death metal bands despite rarely getting the same level...
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Ordos - House of the Dead
By Calen Henry. Based on the spooky cover art, a foreboding mansion in front of a blood moon, issuing a river of lava, Ordos’ House of the Dead looks like it could house almost any metal sound....
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The Ominous Circle - Appalling Ascension
By Nate Garrett. Before I ever heard a note of music from rising, unidentified Portugal death metal collective The Ominous Circle, I saw their promo photos. The band’s aesthetic is essentially the...
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Wiegedood - De doden hebben het goed II
By Matt Hinch. Now when Belgium’s Wiegedood burst onto the scene in 2015 with De Dodden Hebben Het Goed there was lots of talk about their name. Usually in jest. I was guilty of this. But despite what...
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Mercyful Fate - In the Shadows
An Autothrall Classic. In the Shadows could be considered a righteous 'comeback' record long before metal comeback records became a thing, as the majority of 80s acts hit their midlife crises and...
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Gloson - Grimen
By Calen Henry. Gloson take their name from a an undead pig monster in Scandinavian mythology (pictured on the cover of Yearwalker, Gloson's EP). The Gloson would lurk in graveyards and charge between...
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Sinmara / Misþyrming - Ivory Stone / Hof
By Kaptain Carbon. I wonder if we'll ever look back through history and mark the mid 2010’s with an Icelandic black metal explosion. I wonder if there are even enough bands or albums to constitute said...
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Dakhma - Suna Kulto
By Matt Hinch. This is (MI’s) Dakhma. There are many (named) like it but this one is better. This Dakma is not your friend. It is intense. You must listen as intensely as Dakhma plays. Without volume...
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Indie Recordings roundup: Sahg, Cult of Luna & Julie Christmas, and King
By Hera Vidal. Founded in Norway in 2005, Indie Recordings started as a side label for Indie Distribution, but quickly became one of the leading independent labels in Scandinavia. A major part part of...
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Hymn - Perish
By Matt Hinch. I'm not sure exactly how Perish, the debut full-length from Norway's Hymn made its way to my ears. It was likely something to do with the phrase “two man doom”. There's a magic that...
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Unearthly Trance - Stalking the Ghost
By Karen A. Mann. New York’s Unearthly Trance have been crafting earth-crushing sludge with a strange, darkly magical quality since 2000. Over the course of several releases, they’ve moved from a...
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Short and to the point 7.
By Aaron Sullivan. As people who know me know, Death Metal is one of the genres I just can never really get into with the exception of a few bands and albums here and there. But, add some DOOM and...
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The cut above: a look back at 2016 part 1
By Bryan Camphire. With Krighsu, Wormed shattered the ceilings of what had been done in brutal death metal. Not since Nourishing the Spoil by Guttural Secrete has a record raised the bar for this...
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