Crom Dubh – Heimweh Review
Some flowers take a very long time to blossom. Such is the case with Heimweh, the full length debut from London’s Crom Dubh, which comes over a decade into the band’s existence. This is not …
Sacral Rage – Illusions In Infinite Void Review
The easiest thing to pull off in heavy metal is being a generic time capsule band. Yet, among the hardest is being a time capsule band that actually sounds unique. Greece’s Sacral Rage manages this …
Sarpanitum – Blessed Be My Brothers Review
When a musical style has seen a life as long as that of death metal, it’s pretty easy to map the trends, both deep within the underground and above. Right now, the depths are dominated …
Negura Bunget – Tau Review
Negura Bunget. That name, while not referring to the exact same group of people that produced albums such as Om, still carries with it a great amount of weight. Regardless of the people in the …
Code – mut Review
Last year, I used the metal hive mind’s tendency to overreact to musical evolution (one way or the other) to soapbox a bit. The subject was the growth of a few Swedish bands, chief among …
Mourning Mist – Mourning Mist Review
If their self-titled debut is any indication, Italian newcomers Mourning Mist must surely subscribe to the notion that it’s better to be distinctive first and extremely refined second. After all, the album is often more …
Dwell – Vermin And Ashes Review
Despite Vermin and Ashes being the full length debut from Denmark’s dastardly doom/deathers Dwell, the band brings with it a curious type of minor underground pedigree. Among their ranks are members of such bands as …
The Crown – Death Is Not Dead Review
By this point, most are familiar with The Crown’s history and legacy. This is a band that hit an absolute bottom-of-the-ninth, game-seven-of-The-World-Series home run in 2000’s Deathrace King, a blistering fireball of rollicking death/thrash that …