Tag: Death
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2022 So Far, Vol. 3
This is the final installment of our annual mid-year wrap-up, compiling our hand-selected best of the records we somehow neglected to cover during the first half of 2022. You should’ve already read Parts 1 and …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2022 So Far, Vol. 2
This is Vol. 2 of our annual mid-year wrap-up, compiling our hand-selected best of the records we somehow neglected to cover during the first half of 2022. You should’ve already read Part 1, but if …
Missing Pieces: The Best Of What We Missed In 2022 So Far, Vol. 1
Once upon a time in the MetalReview Dot Com Days Ov Yore, this crew of particularly persnickety prickly pears would review everything sent to the email inbox (or PO box). It’s unfathomable to think of …
Track Premiere: Exaltation – “Ascension”
New Zealand’s Exaltation have been smoldering in reclusion since releasing their first demo back in 2017. A promising slab of putrid death that falls somewhere between the demonic symphonies of Incantation and the punchier attack …
Diamonds & Rust: Sepultura – Beneath The Remains
[Cover artwork: Nightmare in Red, by the incomparable Michael Whelan] It’s a wild and wonderful world that accommodates a single band that not only finds great success playing contrasting styles of heavy music, but they …
Defect Designer – Neanderthal Review
Here’s an undeniably sexy way to start a review of some heavy metal music: sometimes what ends up shaping one’s impression of a piece of music is dictated much more by the frame of reference …
Diamonds & Rust: Ludicra – Another Great Love Song
[Artwork by Aesop Dekker, Eric Radey, and Ross Sewage] If you’re one of those people who still enjoys reading think pieces concerning old records, chances are pretty good a meaningful level of music nerdery is …
Bekor Qilish ‒ Throes Of Death From The Dreamed Nihilism Review
In music (and all art), there’s generally a distinction between things that are blatantly, intentionally strange or just end up that way because the people making it are weirdos. Even just within the “avant-garde” tag, …