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Crescent – Carving the Fires of Akhet Review
I’ve said it before and, Ra be damned, I’ll say it again. I love eastern themes in metal. As a result, my interest is naturally piqued by any band utilizing those progressions or from that part of the...
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Bizarre – Invocation Codex Review
Another day, another metal album flaunting our cosmic insignificance in the face of unfathomable monstrosity. Lovecraft and death metal are like milk and honey, so Lord Cthulhu Almighty, take me to the...
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Lhaäd – Below Review
Below is the debut full-length from one-person ambient black metal project Lhaäd. This description is likely to conjure up worrisome images of self-indulgent hours-long snoozefests that use tepid...
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Blindfolded and Led to the Woods – Nightmare Withdrawals [Things You Might...
Blindfolded and Led to the Woods is a band from New Zealand with a bit of a storied past. Originally starting off as a humor-centric deathcore group with bizarrely titled offerings like Armed to the...
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Beyond Mortal Dreams – Abomination of the Flames Review
Two albums in thirty years does not a prolific act make. But that’s exactly how Beyond Mortal Dreams‘ story begins. 1992 saw the youthful Australian death metallers spawn upon this mortal plane, under...
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Thūn – II Review
This is quite the rabbit hole I’ve gone down. It started with Monsterworks back in 2018 (and again in 2020). Then I hitched a ride on a Bull Elephant, in 2019 and 2020.1 Not one to rest on my laurels,...
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Aronious – Irkalla Review
Well, this could have been awkward. In trying to research this week’s subject, I had become increasingly puzzled as to why I couldn’t find much on them. Nothing on AMG itself; nothing on Metal...
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Altars Ablaze – Life Desecration Review
Metal fans are stupid, mindless idiots just looking for their next fix, demanding MOAR of the same exact shit they’ve heard a billion times over. That includes me, and that most certainly includes you....
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Black Water Sunset – Engraved Spectral Aeons Review
The DIY spirit that drives the smaller nooks of the modern music industry, particularly the bedroom/home studio metal scene, can birth acts from the loop-driven and mechanical Cloudkicker to the weird...
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Stuck in the Filter – May’s Angry Misses
Sweat drips from my brow as I shovel yet another lump of gunk out of the chute. The heat is so dense and humid that I can see it rise from the floor, bending light so violently that everything swirls...
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