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Scorching Tomb - Ossuary
November 11, 2025
Old-School Death Metal that isn't old at all? Scorching Tomb recreate the sounds of the 90's with scary accuracy.
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EF – Give Me Beauty…or Give Me Death (20th Anniversary)
November 10, 2025
It’s hard to believe that this album dates back to the “second wave” era of Post Rock, when it became a divisive term for many. But, there is no denying its ability to pull the most out of the listener, even with feelings they weren’t sure they even had. Its mood is discoverable at times, with warm and comforting tones, and more mysterious at others, when it leaves just a bit of a bittersweet taste on your tongue. One of the more lasting impressions I get from the album is feeling awake for the first time in months.
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Phantom Vengeance – Ghost of a Warrior
November 10, 2025
The music I used to listen to in the 80’s, that inspired the band, required an excellent singer and musicians. PHANTOM VENGEANCE has both. I don’t know his name, but he has a crystal clear, rich voice and he can easily negotiate the upper ranges. The music is intelligent, fun to listen to, and emotional. This is an album that any Metalhead would enjoy.
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Qrixkuor – The Womb of the World
November 8, 2025
The album redefines the words “darkness” and “terror.” It’s more like reliving your worst nightmare or torture experience. They bring the death to life, in colors of black, and of the abyss. For me, it’s like standing on the edge of a massive black hole seconds before I am sucked in with a force greater than time itself.
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Novembre – Words of Indigo
November 7, 2025
You might expect a band with this longevity to be stale after all of these years, but you would be dead wrong. There’s a powerful tension between grace and aggression. The instruments hit with a sense of purpose, the guitars snarl and shimmer in equal measure, and the vocals hover between anguish and awe. Beneath the thick layers of sound lies a strange sense of wonder, as if the band is trying to wrestle meaning from the chaos, to find some fragile light buried deep within the noise. It’s the kind of record that just feels alive. The melodies ache, the heaviness hums, and it feels like a meditation on strength through struggle. 35 years later, NOVEMBRE is still killing the game.
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Omnium Gatherum – May the Bridges We Burn Light the Way
November 7, 2025
The album doesn’t follow the standard formula of brutality softened by melody…it redefines the balance altogether. The weight here is immense. Riffs crash down with percussive force, and the harsh vocals tear through the mix with a ferocity few in the genre can match. Yet, amid this aggression, the music never succumbs to chaos. The guitars shimmer with melodic grace, weaving intricate harmonies that feel transcendent, while the keyboards act as a spectral counterpoint—lifting the songs into something grander, almost cinematic. The result is a sound both devastating and breathtaking, equal parts storm and sunrise, and another contender for AOTY.
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Thermality – Concept 42
November 6, 2025
This was an excellent album, and the balance the band was able to maintain throughout the album is noteworthy. As a longtime fan of the genre, it’s hard not to compare them to country-mates, and you could do a lot worse than an IN FLAMES comparison. Some might not like too much melody in their music, but again, it is so well done here.
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Midnite City - Bite The Bullet
November 6, 2025
Midnite City from Nottingham, UK exploded onto the scene in 2017 with their self titled […]
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Hæresis – Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum
November 6, 2025
This album provided an ever-changing landscape that was at times, as cold and hard as the deep north, and as excruciatingly hot as Hell itself. If by chance you didn’t succumb to the rage, the hopelessness would finish the job. It was masterfully aggressive, and equally as somber.
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Vacua – Mater
November 5, 2025
Don’t get me wrong, the album wasn’t a total loss, and the band is obviously talented, but they need to ease off the gas pedal every now and again. Work in some different vocals, some different sounds…the genre is quite forgiving these days. They can still maintain their intensity while embracing some other methods.
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Illusive Key – Consume Us
November 5, 2025
This album was at raging as it was contentious, with both parts shooting high above the horizon and into the canopy. Like a horribly torture sequence, they never let your pain subside even a bit, or slide up and down. Instead, the continued to twist the hot steel bolts further and further into your flesh.
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Akolyth – Ecstatic Kingdom
November 5, 2025
This was a solid listening experience for me. Although the production could have been clearer, the muted qualities kept the sound in the darkness, and in the shadows, where Black Metal thrives. There is also a strong balance on the album between its inherent aggressiveness and harrowing tones of fright. Don’t go into this experience with a cloudy head, because it could consume you and forever hide your body.
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Supreme Mytsic – Kala Rupa
November 4, 2025
Overall, I have to say, this was a fun album to listen to on a variety of levels. The energy was approaching a 10 out of 10, and although the sounds were punishing at times, the vocal harmonies brought some melody to the table. They kick some ass, and take no prisoners, that’s for sure.
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Elettra Storm – Evertale
November 4, 2025
“Evertale” has all the ingredients of excellent Power Metal: the pace, the guitar riffing, the melodies, and the solos
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Orbstruct – Ostracism
November 4, 2025
This was a solid slab of Death Metal. As I mentioned, the band isn’t trying to reinvent the genre, they are just here to create some punishing sounds, and mission accomplished.
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Various Artists – No Life ‘Til Leather, A Tribute to Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All
November 4, 2025
How do you review a tribute to an album that has changed the whole way you look at Metal? That has been a benchmark for other bands to try and equal, emulate or better (as if that was possible).
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Ellereve – Umbra
November 4, 2025
One might consider this album being called Black Metal a stretch, but if you’ve been paying attention to the bended genre boundaries of the genre as of late, it makes more sense. The emotional weight of the album is probably the feature I find most impressive, and as I mentioned above, the titles of the songs match how you feel when you listen to them so well. An emotional rollercoaster, this is an album that I would recommend for all fans of dark music.
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Howling Giant – Crucible & Ruin
November 3, 2025
As ever, HOWLING GIANT fuse melodic phrasing, sophisticated arrangements, and heavy psych riffs in a variety of permutations that are both inventive and visceral.
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Thrash Bombz - Bio Decay
November 3, 2025
When I start to listen it is clear that the name of THRASH BOMBZ has been chosen for a reason. The Thrash Metal sounds that are being omitted from the speakers are quite tell-tale, as there is no doubt as to that is the musical genre that fills over 55 minutes of “Bio Decay”.
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Decrepit Altar – Egregious Defilement
November 2, 2025
Three songs were just enough for me as a reviewer to taste what the band is offering here. There is very little melody, and plenty of dissonance. The instruments work well with the deep guttural vocals to provide a cold, sterile landscape of both hopelessness and nothingness.
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Malepeste – Ex Nihilo
November 1, 2025
The declarative, symphonic ending of the album brought a note of majesty to it, and I would like to hear more of it. The album offered plenty, including aggression, somberness, and outright hopelessness. The French always have an impressive twist in their music, and this album is no exception.
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Olde Throne – Megalith
October 30, 2025
This was an excellent album. It was aggressive enough for purists, but the history interwoven in each song made it more memorable for me. I felt like I was dropped into the old country of Ireland centuries ago, in order to experience what it was like first hand. The music swept me away in that regard, and it was thoughtful, and considerate, in a filthy way of course.
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Morild – Disse Fugle Får Ingen At Se
October 30, 2025
This was a fantastic album. In modern Black Metal, and boundaries are not nearly as narrow as they were, and MORILD takes full advantage of stretching them. In addition to the trademark aggression, there are also atmospheric passages, even melodies, and they connect everything with a darkness that you just can’t shake.
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RVH Project - Land Of The Damned
October 30, 2025
“Land Of The Damned” actually is released on the day that this review is published, 30 October 2025. And to say that this is a huge improvement in comparison with the debut album is quite the understatement.
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Maladie – Symptoms V
October 30, 2025
This was a very strange but impressive album…based in Black Metal, but with the modern day established boundaries of nearly anything goes, it warps and bend the guard rails to the point of almost breaking. Progressive elements abound, and they offer a rich seasoning to the already hearty stew. The five songs offer a lot of diversity, and their musicianship is off the charts.
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Kalamity Kills - Kalamity Kills Expanded Edition
October 29, 2025
Kalamity Kills are a hard rock band who were formed in East Nashville, Tennessee by […]
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Psychonaut – World Maker
October 29, 2025
This album is a testament to the dual nature of Progressive Metal, where weight and wonder coexist in perfect balance. The tone of the record shifts constantly. Melodies move like moods, shadowed and reflective one moment, luminous and soaring the next. It’s an album of contrasts…brutal, mechanical grooves give way to passages of near-celestial beauty. This is music that weighs on the listener yet uplifts them. It’s heavy not just in tone, but in meaning…the kind of heaviness that stays with you long after the final note fades, reminding you that beauty and burden often share the same space.
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Blackshape – Prismer I
October 28, 2025
There are mountains out there…valleys…lush forests, and more colors than you through possible. Although the album points out these possibilities with power, weight, melody, and musicianship, it also leaves you to make your own decisions. You know the saying…you can lead a horse to water…
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Meteora – Broken Mind
October 28, 2025
Broken Mind” may miss the catchiness of typical symphonic Metal releases, but the sound offers well-composed symphonic Metal and symphonic Death Metal tracks for fans who love genre twists
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Liminal Spirit – Unwell
October 27, 2025
Although I struggle to find an audience for this album, it is noteworthy that the subject matter is strongly reflected in the music, and that is no easy feat. I would characterize this is something for Metal fans who think outside the box and don’t need to be spoon fed the typical Metal sound.
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Strigiform – Aconite
October 27, 2025
This is the type of Black and Death Metal album that has the listener constantly reaching out to try to grab a hold of it, and that’s what keeps you engaged. It’s like witnessing an impending pile-up crash at high speeds on an interstate, but all cars actually make it through without a scratch. The band maintains a strict sense of control no matter how much chaos they throw at you. It’s dark, aggressive, contentious, and Progressive in nature, and they are fantastic musicians.
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LORNA SHORE brings the hellfire to Oklahoma City
October 26, 2025
Oklahoma City threw down like the weekend never ended when LORNA SHORE brought their North […]
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Tzevaot – The Hermetic Way
October 26, 2025
The album throws a lot your way…although it is Black Metal at its core, there are so many more elements and mediums used in the music, including piano (which he is excellent at) and a thorough understanding of how to best compose a song that is both conventional and experimental at the same time.
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Tempestuous Fall – The Descent of Mortals Past
October 25, 2025
Overall, this was a nice album to snuggle up with on a cold day, and I found the solemn tones to be oddly comforting. Elements of Doom and Death Metal combine with melody into a recipe that was just so easy to listen to.
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G.A.E.A. – A Frozen Moment in Time
October 24, 2025
This is an out of the box sound, artist and album. At its core, it’s Extreme Metal with Progressive elements, but there is a lot of eclectic personality in the music as well. This album may find it hard to locate an appropriate audience. But I enjoyed it immensely.
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Remina – The Silver Sea
October 24, 2025
There’s a strange allure on the album…a curiosity about what exists just beyond the shadows. The listener is left suspended between awe and sorrow, as if standing at the edge of existence, looking into endless darkness and realizing that even the void has its own terrible beauty. It’s an invitation to dwell in the gloom and still feel wonder at its vast, unknowable depths.
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