I don’t know about you, but I found 2025 to be an absolute banner year for the darker reaches of doom metal and its many different paths with black-doom in particular having quite a lot to boast about. We bore … Continue reading Northern Graves – Derelict Heart
For quite some time now, technical death metal has been unpredictable for all that its denizens dare to summon from nothingness in order to show us both what they can offer listeners as well as showcasing just how much more … Continue reading Xenosis – Hermetic Transmutation
Given the sheer breadth of what black metal can be and has always been, it’s no surprise to see many still clinging to the old school veins of what black metal originally sprouted from. Constantly are we seeing bands seeking … Continue reading Iron Firmament – In the Land of Pre-Human Kings
Death metal, for all intents and purposes, has always been in a bit of an arms race. There’s a constant unspoken and rarely talked about struggle between the throngs of acts spread throughout the underground on who brings the most … Continue reading Teratoma – Longing Voracity
In the vast cosmos, there’s plenty of room for exploration. The overwhelming possibilities that being in a virtually infinite expanse are something that so many have sought to tap into across many different genres of music, and black metal has … Continue reading Silaera – An Aberration of the Void
To be weird and off-kilter is to try for something that hardly anyone else can ever hope to bring to the table, and that requires just as much vision and daring as it does talent and passion in order to … Continue reading Defect Designer – Depressants
The simple act of creating something that is undeniably your own is to craft something that is unlike anything else that has come before, and it always comes with a significant level of risk. If you truly go for it … Continue reading Saprovore – Unuttered Aporetic Omen
We are ever talking about evolution when it comes to a band continuously moving forward and growing their catalog as the years pile on, but it’s not all that often that we’re given a band that actually manages to embody … Continue reading Elder – Through Zero
For as long as I’ve been doing these reviews, the concept of evolution is something that I love coming back around to. When a band manages to truly embody that concept and all the difficulties that come with bringing it … Continue reading The Scalar Process – Agnomysticism
Every genre has a vast number of bands out there in its abyssal depths that have loads of anticipation surrounding them. It tends to be especially the case when there’s a name of a particular reputation and high adoration amongst … Continue reading Downfall of Nur – And the Firmament will Burn to Quench the Pain of this Earth
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