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Malacath - Songs for the Destitute
Review by Aaron Sullivan. From New Hampshire comes the one man Black Metal project Malacath with his three song E.P. entitled Songs for the Destitute. To some degree it is one song bookended by two...
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Modulus - Entanglement
Guest review by Sean Golyer.Album cover by Jack Haas, Kayla Knudson, Mitch Schooler I think it goes without saying when you’re writing about an artist from your local scene, especially a friend, there...
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Ephemeros - All Hail Corrosion
Review by Justin C. My first classical guitar teacher had a quirk that I only came to appreciate later on, long after we'd parted ways. Whenever he played something during a lesson, even if it was a...
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Anagnorisis - Beyond All Light
Review by Andy Osborn.Cover painting "The Enigma" by Gustave Doré Kentucky has become a hotbed for extreme metal in recent years. Austin Lunn, known for his work in Panopticon and Seidr, is...
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Horseback / Locrian - New Dominions
Review by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. This release is a collaboration between two experimentally-minded, blackened drone and doom-influenced bands: the deep, bubbling...
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Dying of the Light - Monolithium
Review by Craig Hayes. The world is awash in environmental devastation and social degradation; but hell, just consume, consume, and consume – it’ll all be okay. Press play on GTA 5 and ignore that...
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Nadja - Dagdrøm
Review by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim. Of all the adjectives and sub-genres that have been employed to describe Nadja's experimetal, ambient dirge-gaze, "dreamsludge"...
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Orbweaver - Strange Transmissions From The Neuralnomicon
Review by Kevin Page.Artwork by Jeannie Saiz I've never seen an album title and artwork so indicative of the final product on display as we do here. If Hate Eternal, Gigan, Gorguts, Ulcerate and...
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Zemial - Nykta
Review by Andy Osborn. When dealing with a metal artist that has been active since the 1980s you’re bound to dig up a twisted corpse of complicated storylines; a revolving door lineup, stark stylistic...
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Enslaved - Below the Lights
An Autothrall classic. Originally published here.Cover art by Truls Espedal I feel that to endear an album with the term 'Enlightenment' is often to reek of some attempt at pretentious misdirection,...
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Usnea - Usnea
Review by Aaron Sullivan. From the vibrant metal scene of Portland comes Usnea self titled debut, and it’s a monster. Their blending of genres is unlike anything I have heard in recent years. Metal...
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Axeman - Arrive
Today is Volahn day at Metal Bandcamp! Now, who is this Volahn?, you ask. According to Metal Archives he is Eduardo Ramírez; a member of many bands within the infamous Black Twilight Circle. He is...
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Shataan - War Cry Lament
Shataan's War Cry Lament is as far removed from orthodox frostbitten Black metal as you can get. It opens with a two minute flute instrumetal, after which you are treated to... well, electric folk...
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Vhöl - Vhöl
Review by Dave Schalek.Cover art by John Cobbett Profound Lore Records recently added the self titled debut full-length from so-called super group Vhöl to their Bandcamp catalog. Vhöl is comprised of...
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Axeslasher - Anthology of Terror, Vol. 1
Review by Dave Schalek.Cover art by Ken Sarafin Do you like pizza? Do you worship Satan? Do you like your old school thrash metal scathing and gore obsessed? Well, if you answered “Yes!” to all of the...
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Aluk Todolo - Occult Rock
Review by Natalie Zina Walschots. Originally published here by Exclaim.Photo by Pedro Roque. Despite being only eight tracks in length, Occult Rock is a hefty double album, as all but one of the songs...
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Loss of Self - Twelve Minutes
Review by Justin C. Just in 2013 alone, we've seen a lot of different flavors of black metal. There's the Indian influences in Dressed in Streams, the orchestral works of So Hideous, and the woodsy...
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Beaten to Death - Dødsfest!
Review by Matt Hinch. Norway's Beaten to Death burst onto the scene back in 2011 with Xes and Strokes. That album came out of nowhere like a pillowcase full of bricks at a teenage slumber party. They...
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Eibon - II
Review by Ulla Roschat. Being a fan of both, Otto Dix’s artwork and Eibon’s music, I was indeed immensely intrigued, when I saw Dix’s triptych Der Krieg (the war) as cover artwork of Eibon’s second...
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Wormlust - The Feral Wisdom
Review by Craig Hayes. Artwork by Metastazis You could argue that trying to maintain any semblance of sanity in this world is a totally mad idea itself. Obviously, it helps us get through the day if we...
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