Ikuinen Kaamos – Fall Of Icons Review
Ikuinen Kaamos was poised to blow the living shit out of the dreaded sophomore slump with Epilogue when purported shenanigans on the part of their label brought the proceedings to a screeching halt. Rather than …
Annihilator – Annihilator Review
What do you expect from a new Annihilator album? If it’s anything but a whole big ol’ boatload of rippin riffs and fiery shredwork in songs that are about equal parts killer and filler, then …
Thulcandra – Fallen Angel’s Dominion Review
The relative merits of making an homage/worship album has long been a heated subject of debate among metal heads and music fans in general. Thulcandra’s debut, Fallen Angel’s Dominion, is as worthy a subject for …
Borknagar – Universal Review
I’m late getting to my review of Borknagar’s Universal due to life and other such nonsense, which puts me squarely behind the great tide of thought on the record. My place knee-deep in the wash …
Dagor Dagorath – Yetzer Ha’ra Review
[RapidFire]Dagor Dagorath’s symphonic black metal is dealt with manifold force that belies their count of a mere three members. Their debut LP, Yetzer Ha’Ra, benefits greatly from production that obtains a monolithic wall of sound …
Year Of No Light – Ausserwelt Review
Seems there’s no shortage of “post-” in our metal these days, and whether anything new bearing that tag is to be denied credence as it coasts down the descending limb of the sub-genre’s arc of …
Skyforger – Kurbads Review
Although Kurbads is my first experience with Latvia’s Skyforger, a little bit of research taught me that the band has a back-catalog of four full-lengths devoted to pagan folk-inspired black metal. I also learned that …
Celestia – Archaenae Perfectii (L’arche Arcane Des) Review
Celestia embodies the wonderful paradox of melody in black metal as well as any other band, and, at once bleak and beautiful, Archaenae Perfectii (L’Arche Arcane des Parfaits) is a model instantiation of the lately …