Archon – The Ruins at Dusk
The Ruins at Dusk is wholesale riff worship. Archon main man Andrew Jude and his cadre of guests construct towering monoliths, layering slow rolling riffs upon waves of ritualistic drums. The four...
View ArticleTroglodyte – Welcome to Boggy Creek
Hi there. It me Bigfoot. I ready to come out and show self to public. Not because I need money but because I sick and tired of stupid beef jerky commercials. I so angry from ads make fun of Bigfoot...
View ArticleEkove Efrits – Conceptual Horizon
Here’s an interesting release from the label behind the recent and solid Ov Hollowness CD, Hypnotic Dirge Records, so you can expect something…well… hypnotic and dirge-y. And in the case of Ekove...
View ArticleFuneral Fornication – Pandemic Transgression
So if Ov Hollowness‘s Drawn to Descend was my favorite of recent Hypnotic Dirge Records’ and Ekove Efrits’ Conceptual Horizon was my least favorite, Pandemic Transgression from Canada’s one man black...
View ArticleInterview with As You Drown
Hello Henrik! So, What have you been spinning in your stereo lately? Hey there! I’ve been listening to the latest Hate Eternal album a lot, as well as the new Nader Sadek (Steve Tucker, Flo Mounier,...
View ArticleInfernal Legion – The Spear of Longinus
I wondered from time to time if Tacoma, WA’s Infernal Legion was ever going to release a follow up to 2005’s Your Prayers Mean Nothing, a slab of old school based, no-frills death metal that I...
View ArticleSerpentCult – Raised by Wolves
I’m sorry, SerpentCult. I tried to like you; I really did. I played Raised by Wolves in a variety of settings: in the car while driving, in the car while not driving, in the car idling and half...
View ArticleAs You Drown – The Rat King
As You Drown‘s first album, Reflection was one of my top 25 albums of 2009, so I was pretty psyched to hear these Swede’s follow up. I’ve sort of mentally linked As You Drown to Australia’s The Red...
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TURISAS to headline “PaganFest: America Part III” tour
Folk metalers TURISAS will be heading back to North America this spring for “PaganFest: America Part III”, their first-ever US headlining run! Joining the Finnish sextet on their triumphant return to...
View ArticleBEYOND TERROR BEYOND GRACE sign with Willowtip
Willowtip has officially signed Sydney, Australia atmospheric death metal band Beyond Terror Beyond Grace. The label will release the band’s newest album, Nadir, on April 3rd, 2012. Recorded and...
View ArticleBahimiron – Rebel Hymns of Left Handed Terror
Generally, when I’m looking at porn, (I’d Like to think) I’m a fairly typical male. It’s your typical porn stuff, nothing to gross or degrading. But once in rare while I’ll be in the mood for some...
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Bobble Blogging: The MC5’s Wayne Kramer and Iggy & The Stooges’ James Williamson
I’m a huge fan of the seminal recordings of both guitarists, especially those on which Brother Wayne played, As such, it was with great enthusiasm that I agreed to shed some figurative ink on the...
View ArticleFistula – Loser
I’m a loser baby, so why don’t you kill me? It really does seem quite fitting in the context of another release by NE Ohio sludge merchants Fistula. Is it possible that this is a harsher Fistula? Eh,...
View ArticleWOODS OF YPRES Frontman, David Gold Dies – Dec. 23, 2011
From Blabbermouth.net: David Gold, a founding member of the Ontario, Canada-based black and doom metal band WOODS OF YPRES, was killed last night (Thursday, December 22) in an accident near Barrie,...
View ArticleTormented – Rotten Death
Do you enjoy your death metal most thoroughly when it reeks of decaying viscera and echoes the sounds of torturous carnage? You do?! Then hold onto your butts, for Tormented is poised to offend your...
View ArticleVore – Gravehammer
First- just look at the cover… (courtesy of renowned fantasy artist Daarken whose work you’ve have seen grace games like Warhammer Online and Warcraft games ). FUCKING LOOK AT IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
View ArticleLife In Your Way – Kingdoms
I was pretty gutted when Life In Your Way broke up, especially on the heels of 2007s Waking Giants, one of my very favorite records of the years and favorite metalcore records ever. Well, earlier this...
View ArticleInterview with Jute Gyte
First off, tell me a little about yourself and how you got into metal and how you got to where you are now writing and recording 5 albums in 1 year. Oh man, well I’ve lived here in Missouri my whole...
View ArticleHoly Grail – Seasons Bleedings
Looking for a last-minute Christmas gift for the power/traditional metal fan? Well, thanks to my crappy timing in writing this review, you’re too late. But you still might want to check out Holy...
View ArticleTeeth of the Divine’s STAFF PICKS for 2011
ERIK THOMAS 1. Fleshgod Apocalypse – Agony. 2. Entrails - The Tomb Awaits. 3. Kverlertak - s/t 4. Light Bearer - Lapsus 5. Vildhjarta – Masstaden 6. Wolves In The Throne Room - Celestial Lineage 7....
View ArticleBlack Hole of Calcutta – Black Hole of Calcutta LP
So here’s another reason to own a record player (and a cassette player); Sacred Plague Records. And one of their recent releases is the second effort from Chico, California’s Black Hole of Calcutta,...
View ArticleBlack Skies – On the Wings of Time
Blacks Skies’ stock-in-trade is a blend of early Pentagram-style proto-doom and stoner rock. Their vibe and sound is more rough and tumble rock n’ roll than crushingly heavy. Driving riffs are the...
View ArticleShining – Live Blackjazz
Metal-jazz fusion or jazz-metal fusion? Or is it neither jazz nor metal? Live Blackjazz is a dvd/ cd release recorded at Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo by Shining. A quick history from the metal...
View ArticleSacrificial Slaughter/Enfuneration – American Death Thrash
American Death Thrash is the perfect title for this 10 song split between Oklahoma’s Sacrificial Slaughter and California’s Enfuneration. 10 tracks, 5 from each of good ol’ fashioned American metal,...
View ArticleThou – To the Chaos Wizard Youth EP
“Into the dark night of the soul: emotional balance restored” This first line lead singer Bryan Funck screams in “The Unnamed Path” exemplifies one of Thou’s main goals: to dwell in and utilize the...
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