Tag: Profound Lore
Abyssal – Antikatastaseis Review
The artwork is inscrutable; the production yawns like a bottomless well; the guitars warp and stretch; the album title is Greek and the closing song title Latin: you know it, you love it — Abyssal …
Pyramids – A Northern Meadow Review
On Pyramids‘s self-titled debut album from 2008, the Texas-based band sounded like a photo-negative version of Blut Aus Nord‘s mind-bending MoRT album, all blown-out brightness and brittle dream-pop shards colored ominously by black metal echoes. …
Dawnbringer – Night Of The Hammer Review
I’ll admit that Dawnbringer‘s latest, Night of the Hammer, had its hooks in me, before I even heard a note of it. The stark, but evocative cover of a black-clad, hammer-wielding figure staring across a field …
Pallbearer – Foundations Of Burden Review
For any band, the stakes are rarely higher than when writing a second album. Writing a second album when one’s debut reaped a groundswell of attention and near-universal acclaim, then, is surely an even more …
Alraune – The Process Of Self-Immolation Review
Your affinity for The Process of Self-Immolation, the debut full-length from Nashville’s Alraune, may depend on your tolerance for genre traditionalists tinkering at the margins by melding together styles of black metal that don’t often …
The Atlas Moth – The Old Believer Review
Originally written by Dean Brown. While most of the music you hear on a daily basis can be easily slotted into neat categories for descriptive purposes—and nine times out of ten it is done at …
Dead Congregation – Promulgation Of The Fall Review
There was a healthy stretch of years where I fell mostly out of love with death metal. Two primary reasons behind this: First, a discovery of a true kinship with the more artsy-fartsy realm of …
Lord Mantis – Death Mask Review
originally written by Jim Brandon Decadence and irreverence have never been in short commodity among metalheads, and I tend to think our beloved scene filters its audience at a fairly respectable pace. The hangers-on drop …