Reviews Posts

May 23, 2023

Album Review - Immortal "War Against All"

Immortal aren’t just one of the most popular black metal bands of all time, they’re also iconic. When people who don’t care about black metal hear the words “black metal”, they think about Immortal because of Guita…

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May 17, 2023

Album Review - Austere "Corrosion of Hearts"

After a lengthy hiatus, Australian depressive black metal legends Austere are back with their first album since 2009’s To Lay Like Old Ashes. The two-piece band consists of Desolate (Mitchell Keepin) on guitar/bass and Sorrow (Tim Yatras) on d…

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May 16, 2023

Album Review - Frozen Soul "Glacial Domination"

It is always a big risk for bands to take chances on their sound early on their careers. Change too much and fans will label you a sellout and if you don’t change enough, people will say everything sounds the same. On the Fort Worth, TX quinte…

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May 15, 2023

Album Review - Cattle Decapitation "Terrasite"

It’s hard to approach a new album from a band like Cattle Decapitation, who have become one of the defining bands in contemporary extreme metal. Personally, I found the last album left me a little cold. This is partly because on the previous t…

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April 24, 2023

Album Review - Enforced "War Remains"

Crossover has become a hot genre again in the metal world. Bands like Power Trip, High Command, and Spiritworld have rose the ranks in the metal world to become house hold names. Another band who has garnered a lot of love in this genre is Richmond,…

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April 21, 2023

Album Review - Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean "Obsession Destruction"

I try to use the formula “album of the year” as little as I can, but sometimes it just applies. We’re still early in 2023, but we’re going to talk about Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean’s new record Obsession Des…

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April 3, 2023

Album Review - Afsky "Om hundrede år"

Last year I was fortunate enough to see Afsky, one of the leading lights in contemporary black metal, and they gave one of the standout black metal performances I saw in 2022. Their previous two LPs were both outstanding, and so I eagerly antici…

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April 3, 2023

Album Review - Sunrot "The Unfailing Rope"

Finding the right balance between atmosphere & heaviness in metal seems like an oxymoron. Most bands don’t even bother with it. You do either one or the other or you awkwardly slap melancholic synths before Earth-shattering breakdowns …

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March 30, 2023

Album Review - Rotten Sound "Apocalypse"

It’s been five long years since Finland’s Grindcore darlings put out a record. Apocalypse’s predecessor, the Suffer to Abuse EP was hardly the encore fans were hoping for after the raucous 2016 full length, Abuse to Suffer. That&rs…

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March 28, 2023

Album Review - Order of Nosferat "Vampiric Wrath Unleashed"

I’ll be honest, prior to this release I was unfamiliar with German/Finnish two-piece Order of Nosferat. How could this happen, you may ask?! You had assumed that Mochi the Black Metal Cat is the font of all underground black metal knowledge, a…

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