Tag: Sentient Ruin
Track Premiere: Cryptae – “Pearl”
There was this kid in my fourth (maybe fifth?) grade class who was smart–I mean exceptionally smart. Xavier was very well spoken, well-read for his age, and extremely intelligent. The teachers mostly left him alone as …
Track Premiere: Vessel Of Iniquity – “Blood Magic”
Noise is guerrilla music. Like the original spirits of black metal, reggae, jazz, punk, and hip-hop, it’s born of a reactionary nature. It scavanges, using the weapons and methods of existing expression and warping them …
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 …
Golgothan Remains – Adorned In Ruin Review
Back in 2018, Golgothan Remains unleashed one hell of a debut. Perverse Offerings To The Void coiled like an infernal cosmic serpent, flexing its muscles around a beefy groove, strange and inhuman melodies, and an almost …
Track Premiere: Chaos Perversion – “Entangled In The Roots Of Death”
If you dig deep enough, there are about as many interpretations of black metal as there are black metal bands. Regardless of the details, at its core, black metal is about conflict. Man vs nature, …
Lucifixion – Feral Mass: A Black, Raw, & Bleeding Premiere
Salutations, Trav’lrs. The closing of the year is nigh, and the night hath brought with it one final gift, a closing sacrament before Last Rites begins its end-of-year rituals of reflection. This cursed gift is …
Abstracter – Abominion
Oakland, California’s Abstracter have been digging themselves a hole since 2012. Their debut album, Tomb Of Feathers, was but scratching at the topsoil like edging a grave plot with a 48″ Wood Handle Transfer Shovel (available …
Track Premiere: 8 Hour Animal – “Wake”
8 Hour Animal certainly wants to fuck up your Tuesday. “Wake,” the concluding track to the New York industrial/noise project’s second work Resigner, emerges after a hypnotic whitewash at the end of “Pushing Myself Down.” In …