Tag: Avantgarde Music
Snorlax – Toxic Current Review
[Cover artwork by Rotting Reign] Having slept on the first few releases from Australia’s Snorlax, I approached Toxic Current—the Aussie one-man blackened death metal band’s third full-length—with fresh ears. I won’t bore you with any …
Escumergamënt – Apparebat Eidolon Senex Review
When we write about music, we often proceed from a premise that is useful but essentially false: namely, that music has a fixed, objective reality. Don’t we all know, at some level, that music is …
Gorrch – Stillamentum Review
1. “Stilllllllllaaaaaaaamennnnnntum.” If you love it when a band sings the album title, you’ve hit the jackpot with “Nimbus,” the opening song of Gorrch’s second album, Stillamentum. At the very top of that first track …
Tenebrae In Perpetuum – Vacuum Coeli Review
I recently watched the John Wick movies, and I mostly hated them. They start from a place of great honesty, which is by recognizing that it’s a hell of a lot of fun to watch …
Valdrin – Apex Violator Review
Fantasy is escapism. Like dirt and rot below our feet, metal and fantasy are symbiotic. Works of fiction, imaginary realms, allow us to detach ourselves from the often-discouraging sites of reality. Whether it’s the dark …
Sur Austru – Datura Străhiarelor Review
Folk metal appears to be going through a pariah phase these days. Of course, genre popularity ebbs and flows with the tide of public opinion, but this once-booming scene of the mid-aughts has fallen on …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2024 So Far, Vol. 2
It’s the middle of the year, so we’re taking a few days to round up all the metallic greatness we failed to cover in the past six months. As you can read above, this is …
Moonlight Sorcery – Horned Lord Of The Thorned Castle Review
[Artwork by Linda “Forestrolli” Piekäinen] As some of you may know, I spent the better part of the entire summer listening to little else than power metal in preparation for The Top Power Metal Albums …