Aosoth – Arrow in Heart
Aosoth is a French trio that strikes out with their dark visions to scar humanity with their twisted form of black metal. If you were to strip away the perplexing jazz technicalities of Deathspell...
View ArticleAbyssal – Novit enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius
Testimony to the taste of our readership, Abyssal’s Novit enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius was brought to my attention on bandcamp a couple of months before I heard Profound Lore were picking up and...
View ArticleArckanum – Fenris Kindir
I will cling to the statement that Arckanum have never released a bad album, but leading up to the mighty/organic 8th full-length trip into gnostic, anti-cosmic woodland mysticism, Fenris Kindir, sole...
View ArticleAnciients – Heart of Oak
Reviewing metal albums is an odd thing, especially for those of us with the disposition that metal music is something more than an entertainment commodity that can be judged by an easily definable...
View ArticleAbazagorath – S/T MCD
I would love to claim superior underground cred and go on about discovering Jersey’s Abazagorath way back in ’96, but the truth is, during that era, I was preoccupied with the sounds arising from...
View ArticleAnXpm / Symphonia Sacrosancta Phasmatum – Split
What comes to mind when you think of christian metal? Incubus? Antestor? How about Reverorum ib Malacht, the most off-their-fucking rockers duo of musicians in Sweden who play “Roman Catholic Black...
View ArticleAntonius Rex – Zora
Zora is a flawed, but ultimately fun album by the bizarre Italian outfit Antonius Rex released in 1977. Were it not for the incredibly charming opener, The Gnome, I’m not sure that I would have stuck...
View ArticleAetherium Mors – Entrails of the Soul EP
What a complete difference a year can make. In 2012, Aetherium Mors’ debut left me frustrated, as half the album was a headed-in-the-right-direction display of melodic/blackened death metal, but the...
View ArticleÆvangelist – Omen Ex Simulacra
The dead moan and cry out from their isolated dimension with despair and agony, only to be heard, re-channeled and enslaved once again by the abysmally haunted sound spectrum of this twisted duo,...
View ArticleAltar of Betelgeuze – Darkness Sustains the Silence
Finland fucking does it again. What is it about that country, where so much worthy Metal emanates like the cold rays of a dying sun? Someone please tell me, I may emigrate there if this keeps up. Back...
View ArticleAvichi – Catharsis Absolute
Forward thinking. That’s the phrase that came to mind a few minutes into Catharsis Absolute, third album from Avichi, the black metal creation of sole member Aamonael (also of ‘blackened sludge metal’...
View ArticleAstrophobos – Remnants of Forgotten Horrors
If you would have tried to sneak this album across my desk back in 95-98, I would have had some choice words for you, for that soaring Swedish death/black metal hybrid ala Dissection, Sacramentum,...
View ArticleAgalloch – The Serpent & The Sphere
Four years after their last full-length Marrow of the Spirit, Agalloch have returned, carrying on their backs a record that takes the best moments of their earlier discography and uses them as the...
View ArticleAbbey ov Thelema – Liber DCLXVI
With a no rules applies framework, the music of Abbey ov Thelema is a scattershot mish-mash of cut up structures, inverted time signatures, disjointed sounds and carnival-esque synth and electronic...
View ArticleAct of Impalement – Echoes of Wrath / Hyperborean Altar (demo compilation)
Caligari Records continues its cassette assault upon the underground with a demo compilation from Nashville, Tennesee’s Act of Impalement, a trio with ears open to what has worked in doom/death’s...
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