Lake Of Blood – Omnipotens Tyrannus Review
There’s a chance you’ve heard this one before. That is, if you’ve been even half-attentive to the prevailing currents in contemporary black metal over the past decade or so, the general sounds that emerge from …
Nocturnal Graves – …From The Bloodline Of Cain Review
The (surely) bullet-belted noisemakers in Nocturnal Graves play such a heavily blackened thrash that one could wager a life’s savings on a bet that they hail from Australia. And, lo and behold, Nocturnal Graves do …
Satan’s Wrath – Aeons Of Satan’s Reign Review
Well, here’s a sentence one doesn’t imagine has been written before: Aeons of Satan’s Reign is a love letter. Lower that skeptical eyebrow back to resting position, friends, because in all honesty, that’s exactly what …
Monster Magnet – Last Patrol Review
To get the uninitiated up to speed: New Jersey’s favorite drug-riddled space-cavemen Monster Magnet released two jaw-dropping, ear-exploding, mind-expanding, cosmos-rending classics in 1992’s Spine of God and 1993’s Superjudge. Main magnet Dave Wyndorf and crew …
Germ – Grief Review
Do vocals alone make an album metal? If Martin van Drunen fronted an album featuring a classic three-piece jazz combo playing standards from the great American songbook, would you be required to call it metal? …
Craven Idol – Towards Eschaton Review
First things first: Look at that cover art. Hang on, hang on, let’s make sure we’re looking at it properly. Click on this, and then LOOK. AT. THAT. If that’s not precisely the sort of …
Urna – Mors Principium Est Review
The Italian label/musical collective ATMF (that’s Aeternitas Tenebrarum Musicae Fundamentum, if you’re nasty) might be putting out some of the most criminally underappreciated (mostly) black metal in today’s metal underground. The average trench-digging metalhead is …
Týr – Valkyrja Review
Just to be clear upfront: Yes, I previously gave Faroese folk metallers Týr the dubious honor of crowning them “World’s Most Boring Band.” Having not heard any of the band’s albums since 2006’s Ragnarok, I …