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Antiversum - Cosmos Comedenti
By Bryan Camphire. The time has come for Antiversum to rear their ugly head once again on Invictus Productions. They're here to deliver their debut long player, Cosmos Comedenti (Cosmos Eater in...
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Bell Witch - Mirror Reaper
By Justin C. If you peruse the metal interwebs, you probably already know the headlines about the new Bell Witch album, Mirror Reaper. It's one song, and it's nearly an hour and a half long. This...
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Yellow Eyes - Immersion Trench Reverie
By Justin C. I've always had an interesting listener-band relationship with Yellow Eyes. I jumped on board with their 2013 full-length, Hammer of Night, but not without some resistance. It's entirely...
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Podcast of Death: Ingurgitating Oblivion Interview
By Bryan Camphire. Welcome to the Podcast of Death, the first (but hopefully not last) podcast on Metal Bandcamp. In our inaugural episode Bryan interviews Florian Engelke from Ingurgitating Oblivion,...
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Beyond Grace - Seekers
By Professor D. Grover the XIIIth. Greetings and salutations, friends. Once more, I return from the void that is adult life and parenthood to discuss a particularly appealing and intriguing musical...
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Nomasta - House of the Tiger King
By Calen Henry. Nomasta take their most clear influences from interesting places. They sound like a mix of High on Fire and early Mastodon; between the slightly dissonant angular riffs of Remission and...
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Sol Sistere - Unfading Incorporeal Vacuum
By Hera Vidal. I have had my run-ins with Chilean metal over the years and they are probably best known for their thrash metal, given both the speed of the music and the freedom the subgenre gives them...
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Dynamic Metal - Round Two
By Calen Henry. The previous article in this series got good traction so I'm back with a few more bands that do more than just make great metal. They also make great sounding metal. Solstice play Epic...
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Noothgrush / Corrupted split
By Craig Hayes. Bandcamp is a fantastic resource for discovering, acquiring and sharing mountains of neck-wrecking music. However, for whatever reasons, loads of formidable metal and punk bands are...
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Auðn - Auðn
By Hera Vidal. Iceland has become known as one of metal’s most buzzed-about places, especially since their music scene is home to some of the biggest names in black metal right now. We know that...
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Archspire vs. Gigan
By Calen Henry. Technical death metal is a hard sell for me. Necrophagist's Epitaph is one of my favourite metal albums but little else, save for Virvum and early Arsis has really grabbed me. I've...
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Phlebotomized - Immense Intense Suspense / Skycontact
By Hera Vidal. Phlebotomized is one of those cult bands that disappeared during the late 90’s, only to resurface 16 years later. Their music is what I can only describe as avant-garde, reminding me a...
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Thantifaxath - Void Masquerading as Matter
By Justin C. The new Thantifaxath EP, Void Masquerading as Matter, starts with a song called "Ocean of Screaming Spheres." That's all you need to know. Go buy it. O.K., fine, you want more details? I...
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Genevieve - Regressionism
By Justin C. When I wrote about Genevieve's last album, Escapism, I got a bit hung up on genre discussions. That point hasn't become any clearer on their new album, Regressionism, but I promised myself...
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Shooting Guns - Flavour Country
By Matt Hinch. You know why instrumental music is important? Without the distraction of someone else’s narrative your mind can open up and create its own story to which the music provides the...
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Fleshpress - Hulluuden muuri
Once upon a time, not long ago, it wasn't so easy to find heavy metal bands playing at glacially slow tempos. Around a dozen years ago, I heard Burning Witch for the first time and I haven't been quite...
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Zola Jesus - Okovi
By Justin C. Regular readers will know that occasionally this blog features what I call metal-adjacent(tm) acts. It's not metal, but it's somehow connected. Maybe Kevin from Gorguts has an avant garde...
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Jupiterian -Terraforming
By Ulla Roschat. Jupiterian, from São Paulo/Brazil offer their second full-length album Terraforming. This is forty minutes and six songs of Doom/Sludge laced with Black Metal and a pinch of noisy...
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The Beastwars Trilogy
By Calen Henry. None of the Beastwars albums are new, but in the fall the band made all their albums Pay What You Want on Bandcamp (until April 2018) to support singer Matt Hyde's cancer treatment so...
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Vesicant - Shadows of Cleansing Iron
By Bryan Camphire. Vesicant is a blackened death metal two piece out of New Zealand. On their ferocious debut, Shadows of Cleansing Iron, they deliver seven knotted dismal cuts full to the brim with...
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