Posts Tagged ‘Self-Released’
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, July 19th, 2024
Wow. Here is some really creative, unique black/death metal from a Belgian band I know nothing about other than they have 1 prior album under their belt. The actual ‘Shiva Hypothesis’ is a theory concerning extinction-level events and meteors, but the band is a 4 piece with ties to various other Belgian death metal acts, […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, The Shiva Hypothesis
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › A on Wednesday, July 17th, 2024
So A while ago, I was having a crazy day and gardening was the main task at hand, but it was made all the better because El Jefe had sent me this promo and I was pretty anxious because of the “Black Metal meets Hawkwind” description in the press blurb. The promo went straight to […]
Tags: 2024, Aklash, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, June 7th, 2024
I don’t know about the rest of ya’ll, but summer sure took its sweet ass time showing up ’round these parts. Yeah, it’s June now, and a lot of this country has been caught in the grips of an absolutely hellacious heat wave (sorry), but back when I had originally started listening to this release […]
Tags: 2024, Doom/Death Metal, Ischemic, Review, Self-Released, Steve K
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Thursday, May 16th, 2024
Canada keeps kicking out sick releases in 2024. Quebec’s From Dying Suns return with their first LP Calamity. This band features members of: Augury, Killotorious and Aeternam. Matthew Dhani, the vocalist of Killotorious is also the live vocalist for First Fragment. It is also worth noting that Christian Donaldson of Cryptopsy mixed this. Calamity is […]
Tags: 2024, From Dying Suns, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024
Hailing from California The Dread Crew of Oddwood, still falls into the metal category, although they play a combination of Celtic and Folk music, all interwoven into the Heavy Metal universe, however, they do it without electric guitars/bass. Instrumentation ranges from the stand-up bass, mandolin, tin whistle, drums, and accordion, just to name a few […]
Tags: 2024, Frank Rini, Pira, Review, Self-Released, The Dread Crew of Oddwood
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › D, Reviews › S on Friday, May 10th, 2024
Synestia is a new symphonic deathcore duo consisting of Minnesota’s Sam Melchior (all instruments, writing) and Finland’s Ville Hokkanen (vocals). In 2022 they released their fantastic debut album, Malificium, but it was digital only and got kind of bulldozed by that year’s slew of stellar releases in the genre from Shadow of Intent, Worm Shepherd, […]
Tags: 2024, Deathcore, Disembodied Tyrant, Erik T, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic, Synestia
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, May 10th, 2024
This certainly came out of nowhere. It’s an EP, not a new full-length, but new Necropanther is all I, and hopefully by extension, you need to know. Before really getting into the meat (dead panther meat, I guess) of the EP, this is exactly what I want from this medium. I’ve always thought of them […]
Tags: 2024, J Mays, Necropanther, Review, Self-Released, Speed/ Thrash Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › V on Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
This spring, two US-based, keyboard-heavy, melodic death metal bands will be releasing their second albums respectively. One, Philadelphia’s Malphas with Portal (via M-Theory Audio), and this album from Seattle’s more old-school influenced Veriteras. And it’s not even close to who the winner is as The Dark Horizon is absolutely stunning. Part of my enjoyment of […]
Tags: 2024, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released, Veriteras
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › N on Friday, April 19th, 2024
4 years ago I reviewed the debut album, Decay from Glasgow’s Necrocracy and it was a rough and ready, solid release of no-frills, burly black metal. And then out of the blue, the band emails me and tells me about their new digital and cassette-only release they are dropping. So apparently the material on Predestiny […]
Tags: 2024, Black/Death Metal, Erik T, Necrocracy, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › R on Friday, March 1st, 2024
If you fell asleep at the end of 2023 then you would have missed up-and-coming band Red Vinter’s We Built Our Own Death Machine demo, which literally dropped, right before 2024. While it’s a demo, any release that drops at the end of a year is dead in the water, so to speak. The band […]
Tags: 2023, Death/Doom Metal, Frank Rini, Red Vinter, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, February 8th, 2024
How does a New Jersey Tech Death based on the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion sound? Well, I am intrigued. Things get kicked off with “Synchronization.” First impressions are a mix of Spawn of Possession with a bit of earlier Archspire. The way they use vibrato is impressive. Pretty insane musicianship from these guys. Excellent guest […]
Tags: 2023, Chaos Sanctuary, Nick K, Review, Self-Released, Technical Death Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Thursday, January 25th, 2024
Cariosus is a new young Chicago duo comprised of Alex Pfister on vocals/bass and Kevin Kryszak on guitars (I can’t find any drummer information, so maybe programmed? They sound fine if so). The duo plays a form of modern metal that pulls from metalcore, melodic death metal, deathcore and such that leans into bands like […]
Tags: 2024, Cariosus, Deathcore, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Metalcore, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › I on Friday, January 5th, 2024
Impalement is the Swiss, one-man project from Beliath (who also helps out with Germany’s Nargaroth for live shows). But unlike the other recent Swiss one-man project I reviewed, Felonie, which was more melodic atmospheric black metal, this, as the apt album title states, is blistering, black/death metal. The Dawn of Blackened Death is the second […]
Tags: 2023, Blackened Death Metal, Erik T, Impalement, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › O on Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024
Cripes, I haven’t had an album make me scratch my head as much as this in quite some time. OWDWYR is a technical death metal/grind/djent experimental metal trio (aided by a literal army of guest drummers for almost every track- including Kevin Paradis of Benighted and Kenny Grohowski of Imperial Triumphant) that utilizes classical and […]
Tags: Avant-Garde/Experimental, Erik T, OWDWYR, Progressive Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › F on Friday, December 1st, 2023
I realize Deathcore is a polarizing form of extreme metal and quite honestly I could give 2 shits. Many people and fans, as well as current and former members of my alma mater, Internal Bleeding have even said our earlier work had a direct influence on Deathcore. The main points discussed were our second album, […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Face Yours, Frank Rini, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Saturday, October 28th, 2023
I have a soft spot for Gothic Metal. It goes pretty deep, this Gothic love. So when this album popped up in the promo bin I picked it out because I saw that Kostas Salomidis was attached to it. In case you haven’t heard of him, then you should be checking out his band Distorted […]
Tags: 2023, Ghost Warfare, Gothic Metal, Heavy Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › B on Friday, October 27th, 2023
For my real, actual paying job, I do a fair bit of travel and on said travel, I meet some interesting folks. Some good, some bad, some eccentric. What has always been consistent is metal heads, when they identify each other in the wild, generally get along and have a good time. It’s just kind […]
Tags: 2023, Beggars, Erik T, Hardcoree, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › S on Friday, October 6th, 2023
With a name like Satanic Tea Co, it must be good, right? Well, I’m here to tell you that without a doubt, A Celestial Beating is a massive EP wrapped in an adorably evil box. It’s a small box, to be sure, 13.63 minutes of Brutal Death Metal that feels like a much bigger album […]
Tags: 2023, Death Metal, Jeremy Beck, Review, Satanic Tea Co., Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › C on Friday, September 15th, 2023
Remember Seattle’s Black Breath? They released 3 solid albums from 2010 to 2015 on Southern Lord. They were one of the earlier, really good US bands playing a Swedish death metal/hardcore hybrid that was a bit of a precursor to the Gatecreeper’s et al of this world. Well, while Black Breath is indefinitely ‘on hold’, […]
Tags: 2023, Come Horrid Sigil, Erik T, Melodic Death Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › E on Thursday, September 14th, 2023
I have no problem feeling depressed or sad. Just ask my therapist! I don’t need a band or music to make me feel miserable, yet I seek it. Why? I don’t know, maybe ask Ethereal Tomb and their brand of sludgy doom. According to a quick search, this is the Canadian duo’s second full length […]
Tags: 2023, Doom/Death Metal, Ethereal Tomb, J Mays, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › M on Tuesday, September 12th, 2023
Mortem Obscuram initially got on my radar with their debut Eradication of the Human Endeavor back in 2021, a solid if unspectacular release of blackened/symphonic technical deathcore/death metal. It was OK, but I really didn’t give it that much attention, post-release. But boy, with The Wretched Divinity, they certainly have not gotten on my radar- […]
Tags: 2023, Deathcore, Erik T, Mortem Obscuram, Review, Self-Released, Symphonic Metal, Technical Deathcore
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › 012, Reviews › S on Thursday, August 24th, 2023
As the days and months and years keep piling up, it’s become more clear to me than ever that the idea of growing “mature with age” can mean two very different things: There’s the literal, more widely recognized notion where time and experience allows you to take stock of the things that actually matter in […]
Tags: 2023, Gothic Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Review, Sanguine Glacialis, Self-Released, Steve K, Symphonic Metal
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › L on Tuesday, August 22nd, 2023
If you’re not into modern metal, or what some painting with the broadest of brushes calls “metalcore,” you’re not going to like this. However, I am going to make like the gallon of milk I left in my car, spoil it, and let you know I do. Why do I like it, though? I’m so […]
Tags: 2023, J Mays, Lokust, Metalcore, Modern Metal, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Reviews, Reviews › G on Friday, July 28th, 2023
It’s been 6 years since India’s Gutslit punched me in the face repeatedly for their second effort, Amputheatre, and let the world know they were clearly one of the top, if not the top brutal death metal bands from the county, if not the region. The line up that unleashed Amputheatre is largely intact, except […]
Tags: 2023, Brutal Death Metal, Death Metal, Erik T, Gutslit, Review, Self-Released
Posted in Frontpage Feature, Reviews, Reviews › B on Monday, July 17th, 2023
Anyone who’s paid any attention to the world of metal music in the last two years probably needs no introduction to Blackbraid at this point which, in and of itself, is pretty astounding. In fact, we’re not even a full two years removed from Sgah’gahsowáh (AKA Jon Krieger) unleashing the one-man project’s first two blistering […]
Tags: 2023, Atmospheric Black Metal, Blackbraid, Review, Self-Released, Steve K