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Auðn - Farvegir Fyrndar
By Calen Henry. Even after the explosion of interest in the Icelandic black metal scene Auðn are a bit of an outlier. Though their icy, jangly, dissonant riffs definitely fit into the Icelandic sound...
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Chaos Moon - Eschaton Mémoire
By Ben Handelman. Chaos Moon, once a relatively inactive outfit, has grown increasingly active and prolific since its reemergence in 2014. With the release of last year’s ferocious Eschaton Mémoire,...
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Agrimonia - Awaken
By Matt Hinch. If, like me, you've never listened to Agrimonia before (or at least don't remember), that should have no effect on how much you may enjoy their fourth full-length, Awaken. Everyone has...
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Come to Denmark (and die)
How time flies when you're dead. The last of the legendary Kill-Town Death Fests was The Funeral Edition in 2014. But it seems you can't keep a good corpse in the ground and September 6-9 it's time for...
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Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
By Calen Henry. Hooded Menace's new LP grabbed me from the first riff. On Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed they dive deep into doom and gloom creating a slab of devastating Gothic tinged death doom...
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Tints of Obsidian - What You Missed in 2017
By Justin C. Much like the Christmas shopping season, sometimes it seems like the end-of-year album lists come earlier and earlier each year. Inevitably, this means some otherwise excellent albums...
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Dream Tröll - The Witch's Curse
By Bathy Kates. Hello metal warriors! Long time, no see! I’m back to tell you about a band I wrote about many moons ago on Metal Bandcamp: Dream Troll. Hailing from Leeds, England, the band delivered a...
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Basalte - Vertige
By Hera Vidal. Jean Piaget had an interesting theory about object permanence, the concept that objects still exist despite not being observed. He believed that this was one of an infant’s most...
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Hound the Wolves - Camera Obscura
By Ulla Roschat. Go get your mind's space gear (head phones), because it's got an invitation by Hound the Wolves to join them on a psychedelic journey through Drone, Doom, Stoner soundscapes with their...
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Novareign - Legends
By Calen Henry. Novareign play power metal, the new American style that injects it with traditional metal grit and a bit of death metal heft. They hew closest to other California bands, often sounding...
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Fister / Chrch - Split
Fister and Chrch are both known for being as heavy as really heavy things so putting them together on a split should have caused a collision of black holes. But we're still here and the only black hole...
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Metal Bands-you-might-have-missed-camp 2017
By Calen Henry. Things you might have missed. I'll be honest, I only checked out Dumblegore because of the band name, among the best of 2017. It turns out, though, that they totally rule, though they...
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Locktender - Friedrich
By Justin C. Have you ever rediscovered one of your own purchases? I had that happen with Locktender's brilliant Rodin. I liked it when Matt Hinch first wrote about it for our site, and then I let it...
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Solstice - White Horse Hill
By Calen Henry. Solstice are magic. Their deft combination of trudging, pounding doom and British folk sensibilities is unmatched. White Horse Hill is their first album in twenty years, the follow up...
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Wake - Misery Rites
By Matt Hinch. When I think of Calgary (Alberta, Canada) I don't think of grind. I think of oil, rodeo, and Country. But Wake is changing that perception. I first heard the quartet on a split with...
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Hammr - Unholy Destruction
Multi-instrumentalist J. Hammer kick-started his one-man metalpunk band Schizoid Hammer in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2013. A couple of low-key releases and one rejigged band name later, and now the...
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Valdur - Divine Cessation
By Steven Leslie. One of the things that made the earliest strains of Death Metal so compelling was the bands’ inherent understanding that for all their boundary pushing extremity, the key to great...
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Sólstafir – Berdreyminn
By Hera Vidal. Sólstafir is one of those bands that grows on you, especially when you look past their earlier material and realize how much they have changed since their inception. They may have...
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Clawing - Spectral Estate
By Craig Hayes. Fair warning, Spectral Estate, the full-length debut from dark noise trio Clawing, is a hard listen. Psychologically, Spectral Estate is akin to a walking nightmare, where bad dreams...
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Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology
By Calen Henry. Having already cornered the market for space slug themed melodic blackened progressive death metal, Slugdge unleash their fourth full-length, Esoteric Malacology (Malacology being the...
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