I recently covered a raw as fuck Black Metal album from Embers of Ouroboros, and now I have yet another incredibly raw, but better album than the Embers of Ouroboros. I’m talking about Blutsauger and their blistering debut full-length, Nocturnal Blood Tyrants. This album kept me company all day, it shredded my eardrums and froze […]

Near is an Italian metal band.  By nationality alone it’s natural to assume the styles of metal that drip melodrama.  Seven minute songs spinning tales of velvet draped gothic-romance where the blood of a lover is dashed across marble columns, ranging from symphonic grandiosity to tear jerking doom.  Near takes it down several notches and […]