The self-titled debut album from US band Idre is an introduction which permeates every sense, thought, and emotion. The two track forty minute beast of a release is a swamp of weighty dark textures amidst carnivorous structures and intrusive oppression… Read More ›
A compelling destructive seduction, Life Drawing the new album from US metallers Stoneburner, casts no doubts on the suggestion that the Portland quartet is one of the most exciting prospects in aural consumption out there. Creating a scintillating weave of… Read More ›
Hailing from Vetlanda, Swedish metallers Koloss take the imposing isolation and you suspect harsh wintery conditions of their home surroundings into the expansive and enveloping intensive sounds of their new album. They create as evidenced forcibly upon Empower the Monster,… Read More ›
Soaked in atmospheres which consume and devour the senses as dramatic and intimidating textures sculpt and build intensive provocations, Atum the latest EP from Croatian metallers Duskburn, is certainly a formidable and testing incitement which is as uncompromising in… Read More ›
Make way, step aside for another irresistible contender for the album of the year accolade. Nations To Flames is a monster of a release, an encounter which builds further on the already acclaimed and immense craft and presence of A… Read More ›
Consisting of four ferocious and caustically impacting rages, Whispers From… the debut EP of French post-metallers Another End leaves the senses challenged and thoughts provoked. It is a corrosive and tempestuous fury merging heavy articulate rhythms with brooding dark atmospheres… Read More ›
With the exceptional 2012 album White Lightnin’ thrusting its creators upon the doom/sludge metal map it is fair to say that anticipation for its successor was hunger driven. The third album Hymn To Pan from German metallers Obelyskkh more than… Read More ›
Dramatic and compelling, the Hand of Glory EP from French instrumental metallers The Lumberjack Feedback is a masterful journey through cavernous shadows and depths, a tension packed encounter of doom and sludge metal. Consisting of two tracks lasting seventeen minutes… Read More ›
As The Crow Flies is a release which pushes all complications and unnecessary wrappings aside to unveil and inspire a core of emotive poetry and introspective inducement. It is a haunting meditative soundtrack to reflection, self and worldly;… Read More ›
Bands doing covers is always an intrigue if only to see what one assumes has inspired them but when it comes to whole albums of bringing forth hopefully re-invented versions past experiences usually show it is just a lead to… Read More ›
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