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Carnage Inc.
Carnage Inc.
The new self titled EP by thrash metal band from Mumbai India, Carnage Inc., comes out swinging […]
Apocryphal Verse
Aduanten
For a music aficionado who digests 600+ albums a year for the past 10+ years, and is always on the hunt for something new and unique, I can say that this is a sound that is on the fringe of where I see Metal headed in the future, and they are already charting the course. Deep within each layer, there are mysteries waiting to be discovered, and their intelligent approach to songwriting where they are able to control some of the chaos is noteworthy.
Alvorecer De Última Hora
Jletylishie
This is Black Metal at its most hasty, restless, and breathless, and an album that never stands still, never settles, never lets you fully catch up. The album’s real triumph is how it merges two emotional forces rarely balanced this well: wonder and urgency. The melodic passages make you look upward in awe, while the relentless pace pulls you forward, heart racing, as though you’re chasing a revelation you can almost grasp.
Awakening
Deteriorot
Deteriorot has been around since 1990 and is one of the pioneers of American death […]
Lullabies from Hell
Golden Serpent
In this review, I explore the themes and instrumentation presented in this album.
To Rise You Seek The End
TRYSTE
The album is a place where clean, heavenly tones seduce you into calm just before the music rips your head off. They build enormous, plush soundscapes and glassy, delayed guitar lines that bloom into a devotional warmth. Vocals sit perfectly in the mix as if they were another instrument in a cathedral of sound. Those clean timbres are addictive: shimmering, rounded, and they invite surrender. The album has melancholy and longing in the cleans, visceral rage and dread in the harshness. It’s a record for listeners who enjoy being soothed and then shaken awake. It nails that uneasy marriage that is seductive, punishing, and unforgettable.
Dominion of Ashes
Cemetery Moon
Although the band’s attention to the ferocity of Black Metal is noteworthy, many of the songs on the album blurred together too much. They have talent, and the cover art is excellent, but they need to work in more variation into the album, and perhaps take advantage of the wide genre boundaries these days.
Uncrossing the Keys
Wode
Overall, this was a solid album. The band presents power and might in their music, along with harrowing and aggressive tones, and just the right amount of despair.
“New God, New Masters”
Revocation
Revocation, “New God, New Masters” (2025) Metal Blades Records is an undeniable textbook framework of […]
Når Bjerge bliver til Støv
Arkæon
As a fan of dark metal, this four track collection is a hallmark in the […]
Signum
Hammerfilosofi
Overall, this was indeed a violently alive album, as well as a statement from the band that they are here to subvert you to their will. The intensity never lets up, and it sounds like they are unearthing Hell itself on the album.
Nothingman
Age of Ruin
Hair metal, thrasher, metal core, and all the beauty wrapped into one. Age of Ruin is setting the bar high for other bands trying to make a name of themselves.
Down in Flames
Glasgow Kiss
Glasgow Kiss, where have they been my entire life? Apparently writing Down In Flames for our listening pleasure!
In Absence of Light
All We Leave Behind
Doom Metal can be very exciting. This album was just average in the annals of the genre. Too many of its 11 songs sounded too close to one another, and that is my main issue with the album as a reviewer.
To Carry On
Morke
As far as “To Carry On” goes, a well-written, well-executed album. Recommended for any fan of Atmospheric or Melodic Black Metal.
Solitude
Nordicwinter
This was a solid album to listen to, combining the aggressiveness of Black Metal vocals with the sheer depression that can also be prevalent in the genre. After listening, I have this contemplative feeling that makes me want to leave my responsibilities behind for a while and really think some things through.
Endless Nights
Empire Drowns
Overall, the album has great balance…each instrument like the keys, guitars, bass, vocals, and drums work together in a synergy that is hard to find. This was a terrific album, expertly combining the genres of Doom, Death, and Melo-Death together to create a sound of anguish, pain, even terror at times, but all done with a melodic touch.
Communion in Anguish
Tithe
Coming from Portland , Oregon, which is a town several atmospheric, and very interesting bands […]
Red Hill
Murmur
Pain? Yes, you will feel its sharp bite. Anger? Yes, you will feel its fire raging inside of you. The three songs carried a lot of emotion along with them, and like adding salt to a wound, they can easily revive any latent feelings you have tried to push down and lock away. This was an excellent release, and I would love to hear more.
The Ship//The Sea
Beastwars
Hailing from Wellington , New Zealand ,”The Ship//The Sea” is the 5th release from BEASTWARS […]
Obstinacy: Sisyphean Dreams Unfolded
Fleshvessel
Right off the bat, you have to marvel at a composition like the four presented on this album. If nothing else, the band has vision. Twenty years ago, this kind of genre smashing didn’t even exist, but now we hear more and more. The only thing I struggle with is finding enough people out there who might appreciate this varied plate of Extreme Metal. Then again, I know they are out there. The album is more like taking a trip somewhere you have never been and not packing anything with you…you leave what happens from there up to a whim, or to fate, depending on what you believe.
Your Inland Empire
Your Inland Empire
This album feels like a forgotten relic from the late ’80s that has been carefully excavated, polished, and reimagined with modern sensibilities. Vocals drift between icy detachment and aching melancholy, perfectly suited to the genre’s emotional palette. The songs carry that signature Darkwave introspection, but the Industrial edge gives them a bite that keeps the melancholic haze from ever feeling passive. Altogether, the album bridges synth-soaked memory and modern darkness. It’s retro, it’s current, it’s immersive, and it hits harder than you expect.
Unchained & Bloodstained
Killer Hearts
Hailing from Texas USA ,Killer Hearts are a leather clad electrifying rock n’ roll band […]
Sudden Impact
Redshark
What immediately becomes clear is that the band have opted to change their dimensions between Heavy Metal, Power Metal and Speed Metal by putting the emphasis on the latter of the three for “Sudden Impact”. It makes this album just a tad more intense, slightly more in your face and certainly unable to ignore when you are listening to it.
The Long Lasting Dusk
Will O' Dusk
I like what WILL O’ DUSK are doing on “The Long Lasting Dusk”. It’s good, it’s solid, it works, it fits.
Bludgeoning Simulations
Ghould
Experimental, Post Metal, Industrial…whatever you genre purists label this doesn’t matter. The album is a barren wasteland…a vast clearing of the trees in one of the northern most places on the earth. It’s so cold, there are no animals…nothing lives there…nothing even grows there. It’s like a void that if you dare to enter, you will join its dead.
Providence
Destruction Ritual
Destruction Ritual knows how to fill time with intense, long blasts of black metal atmosphere...
Amid
Azketem
This isn’t your typical Black Metal album. Azekn infuses Gothic threads into the album, which is unusual, and his songwriting is not the common frigid aggression that you hear in the genre. The album is nuance, and even melodic at times, in a dark sort of way. Forget what you think you know about Black Metal and step into his world for a gem you won’t often find.
Malum in Se
Funeral Harvest
This was a haunting album that you could easily relive as a recurring nightmare, and once you open the door and invite it in, it will never leave until you are dead.
The Hypercosmic Paradox
Chaos Over Cosmos
Few band possess this level of musicianship and skill, and even fewer are able to breathe life into heavily technical compositions. Rather than relying on the riff and the vocals to do most of the talking, the band uses electronics, synth, and ambiance to augment the songs. The result is an album that is as dexterous as it is an absolute joy to listen to.
Embalming
Heteropsy
This 45 minute album felt like a slow and mournful couple years.
A Thousand And One Nightmares
Unrecht
One thing becomes clear from the beginning, and stay that way all through the album; the riffing by UNRECHT is sometimes very canny, very intricate, thoroughly convincing and mostly well done. The growling/grunting vocals on the album are really fit for purpose, and very complementary of the musical intentions of the band.
Homebrewed Recordings
Willfire
WILLFIRE is a band from Järvenpää, Uusimaa, which is in Finland. They play pure straight forward old fashioned Heavy Metal, and have done so since 1998.
Past the Veil of the Observable Universe
Teach Them To Weep
Although at its core, it’s Black Metal, the album is really a very eclectic and varied mix of sounds, and you need to go into the listen with an open mind. Some music just isn’t linear, and this out of the box album doesn’t follow any rules. I found Sean’s compositions to be intriguing and unorthodox, and anyone looking to explore will find some real gems here.
Come On Everybody, Let’s Do Nothing!
IAN
Post Rock sports one of the widest boundaries in music, and this fits into place. The screamed vocals are usually associated with Post Hardcore music, but there is more experimentation here then what you get out of the later. The most telling part about the depth of their sound is that sometimes the music is hard to make sense out of, and each listener could have an entirely different experience.
Wayhome
Kauan
This was one of the few albums where the themes melded into the music so very well. For me, it’s a story of perseverance, set to music that is poignant, expressive, and, at times, dramatic. There are so many things to discover about the album if you have the time, and it will charm you into immersing yourself in its secrets.
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