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Contempt For Life

The Machinist

This was a crushingly heavy album that took no prisoners. The pacing was often frantic, and the sheer amount of notes that they band was able to squeeze into the compositions was amazing. At times, some of the chaos was broken with melodies, but they were often short lived, and blotted out by the weight of the album. The musicianship here was nearly impeccable as well.

In Flight

Time Rift

Good old Hard Rock with a psychedelic touch.

The Alien Machine

AntiMozdeBeast

This was a very personal album seen through the lens of one composer, and it challenges the very notion of what music even is. Although some of it is more like background ambiance, it did make me feel a peculiar way, which although is hard to describe, is the very point of music in the first place.

Fra Li Monti Sibillini

Hesperia

this album definitely reaches too far and too often for ideas that don't quite meld into the songs very well. I'm going to give it a four but I could understand anyone giving it an extra point or two either way but it's just not working for me.

Threnodies to Eternal Despair

Infested Angel

All in all, INFESTED ANGEL’S “Threnodies to Eternal Despair,” is an early year surprise for me and a very solid debut. I will definitely be looking forward to what else they can do!

Exempting Reality

Cerebral Hemorrhage

Cerebral Hemorrhage - Exempting Reality, a force to be reckoned with and a forgotten classic coming back to haunt and daunt the non believers.

Opaque Fixation

Primal Code

Primal Code - Opaque Fixation, a relentless beating of stomping drums and a doomy vibe to raise hell in the pit.

Sinking Into Filth

Reckless Manslaughter

A disgusting display of what German death has to offer

Trost

Danefae

This was an excellent album, shrouded in mystery at times, and wide open for the taking at others. It’s the way that these two feelings are blended that make the album so well balanced, and the key to their sound is the songwriting and musicianship. Both are outstanding.

Into the Great Unknown

Starchaser

A soft kind of heavy.

Incineration Of The Pious

Wretched Fate

“Incineration Of The Pious” is punishing and evil, driven by the relentless chainsaw sound of the guitars

Toymaker

Medusian

“Toymaker” is symphonic Death Metal with melodic Metal elements. The sound is epic with grim melodies and prominent orchestral arrangements

Crossfire

Storace

Marc Storace releases the second solo album “Crossfire” through Frontiers Music, the follow up to […]

Shine

Mystery Moon

Kaiserslautern based guitarist and songwriter Markus Pfeffer (Lazurus Dream & Atlantis Drive) actually only wanted […]

The Square

Seven Kingdoms

The Square starts off as a ripper, loses some traction midway, gets back on course, and then runs into a wall of 80’s sentimentality. To be fair, four of the five tracks are very, very good, pretty much making the EP well worth the price of admittance.

Trümmerfestung

Jarl

JARL does not disappoint with Trümmerfestung. Solid 8’s all the way around for this hammer blow of ruthless Black Metal.

Antipole

Norilsk

I like the approach that the band took to expand upon traditional sounds of the genre. The moments of melody, for example, are places at just the right time, to lift up your spirit when it seems to be at its lowest point. But that hardened sense of Doom still heavily permeates the album.

Pylon Cult

Praetorian

This was an excellent album, and the band’s mashup of several styles is part of a modern movement in that direction. The blackened elements keep the aggression ever-present, and the sludgy elements add a layer of weight that is as sturdy as concrete. By the end, I was covered in a thick, black filth.

Gehenna

Blazemth

This album wasn’t a total loss, but the band has to find a way to put some distance between them and other bands in the genre. Black Metal’s boundaries are endless, but they chose to stay within specific confines.

From Origin To Decay

Maat

With a torrent of technical brutal Death from Germany comes an unapologetic display of esoterica.

Antinomian Asceticism

Barshasketh

This music isn’t for the faint at heart. Because once you open the book, its power and secrets come into you. The moment you allow one to enter, all of the others get a free pass. You have to ask yourself, are you able to handle this much power? Save for a few special people, all the rest will fail answering this question. This album was as black as Black Metal gets.

Beckoning Tribulation

Aberrator

In today’s Metal world, many bands are coming up refusing to be limited to one main genre. This relatively new feature in Metal assures that the listener won’t grow tired of the same sound over and over again, and ABERRATOR works hard in this genre bending album to just plow into you and turn you inside out before departing.

Hallowmas

Sons of Guidorah

This Stoner Metal/Doom Metal trio has something different to show to the genres' fans. Taste it!

Refuting the Flesh

Osbcureviolence

Death Metal or Death/Black Metal? The name doesn't matter, just hear to this release!

Night Demon

Mystery Blue

Almost 50 years old and with such passion for Heavy Metal? You all must hear it NOW!

Malevolent Lycanthrophic Heresy

Luring

Atmospheric Black Metal in the vein of the Second Wave is what you'll find on this full-length.

Pandæmonium

Apocalypse

This is a very good Viking Black Metal/Black Metal release.

The Enemy Within

All Involved

A good Modern Metal release, indeed.

Crowned in Corpses

Pathogenic

This album was executed nearly flawlessly. It was cavernous, and resounding, and the aggressive and sometimes nihilistic tones were tempered at just the right times with snippets of melody, showing a band that has a deep well of creativity. The sound drew you in, charmed and beguiled you, like the undertow of the ocean, promising salvation that never materialized. In the end, we are all just dust.

…And The Word Was God

Diatheke

This was a good album, with fantastic musicianship. There were some moments when the transitions were a bit clunky, but there were also some brilliant moments. The band has talent, but they need to sharpen up some of the transitions. This is a band to keep an eye on for sure.

Kingdom Unfold

Rigorious

Missing a few ingredients.

On Shoulders of Giants

Seventh Station

Although their musicianship is nothing less than fantastic, they created an album that is hard to take in and assimilate, and perhaps hard to identify with, at least for me. As a consumer, I am always looking for an uncommon sound, and the next great band. This album is about as unusual as it gets, and I would encourage you to listen to it and make up your own mind.

Cycle of Death

Deus Sabaoth

This is how you do modern Black Metal in my opinion. The band embraces several instruments not often used in the genre, and they take their roots, expand upon them, and usher them into the modern world. It does indeed reflect principles such as the futility of life, and inevitable loneliness that many of us feel.

The Opus Satanas

Project Ultimate Satan

“The Opus Satanas” is a symphonic blackened Death Metal works in six parts with well-thought through compositions, grim melodies, punishing guitar riffing and hammering drumming

The Loss And Redemption

Thy Kingdom Will Burn

"The Loss And Redemption” is dark and heavy, epic, and melancholic. It is a good mixture of all those elements, where the melancholic melodies drive the album

Painted Paradise

Fleshbore

FLESHBORE’s “Painted Paradise,” is the direction that tech death needs to go in. The music is as potent and enthralling as the beautiful cover art.

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