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There were a number of reasons why I really wanted to get hold of this debut album from Maryland doom / true metal outfit Mythosphere. Not only do they feature an ex-member of cult classic band Fates Warning on guitar… Continue Reading →
Dissonant Death/Black Metal band Veilburner are an intriguing prospect. Their brand new album ‘VLBRNR’ is the latest chapter in the Pennsylvanian’s on-going nuanced storybook world that has been created over their last five albums. As with their last two opuses… Continue Reading →
Two years on from 2020’s ‘Omens’, Berlin based quartet, Elder, return with latest album ‘Innate Passage’. Straddling the line between psychedelic stoner metal and prog rock, Elder are a band lacking in neither ambition nor technicality. Their ability to tour… Continue Reading →
Very much an album of two halves here from this Texan quintet. On the one hand we have 5 songs including an instrumental closer and on the other a set of four covers. The reason why they chose the second… Continue Reading →
German label Prophecy Productions / Lupus Lounge brings you a fascinating two track split release featuring two Black/Death/Doom Metal bands, US one man outfit Tchornobog, and from the UK, fellow one man project Abyssal. A two track split this may… Continue Reading →
Album number six for Judicator is quite an important one. OK, every album a band produces is important, but “The Majesty Of Decay” is the band’s first to be led solely by vocalist John Yelland after the departure of guitarist… Continue Reading →
Californian sludge/doom metallers 16 return with this their ninth album, following 2020’s ‘Dream Squasher’ album which was a hugely enjoyable collection of hoary, doomy, sludgy filth not unlike the stuff that collects in between your toes after a ten-mile run… Continue Reading →
Satan and gore, what more do you need in your music? Well maybe a bit of the old Texan Brutal Death wouldn’t go amiss. Such is the case with our unholy disciples of the day Desecrate The Faith. Having formed… Continue Reading →
Incredible really to think that the fetid gentlemen from Exhumed have been plying their wares since 1990. Since that time, of course, they’ve had a lot of line-up changes, including members past and present from bands like Impaled, Intronaut and… Continue Reading →
The last couple of Black Anvil albums had a mixed reception here, that’s not all that surprising and I think the comment that ‘There are too many disparate and conflicting elements” in regard to last one ‘As Was’ kind of… Continue Reading →
South New Jersey natives 9 Dead take their moniker in tribute to (or mockery of… I have no idea which) the nine victims of a mosh pit stampede that crushed nine people to death at a Pearl Jam show in… Continue Reading →
Although the cover to the album at hand looks a lot like that to Kall’s last LP Brand, and although one could easily jump to conclusions and expect similar sounds and attitudes, it’s not DSBM that’s hiding beneath this sad… Continue Reading →