Whenever I consider the very specific but ever-tantalizing realm of instrumental psychedelic rock, I always have two acts that I constantly find myself comparing the rest to unconsciously: My Sleeping Karma and The Re-Stoned. They have long been the pillars … Continue reading Stone Machine Electric – The Inexplicable Vibrations of Frequencies Within the Cosmic Netherworld
There are many bands across this wide world that metal inhabits in all of its many forms, but it’s in the underground of death metal where we continuously find bands that are both far too alike and yet extremely unique … Continue reading Wombbath – Tales of Madness
The purpose of all music is to transport the listener into a realm where the creator has all but limitless control. It can be used to simply convey a message, or, like in the various worlds of ambient, it’s utilized … Continue reading Sarvok – Cabin in Space
The evolution of any band is always something that is a topic of immense investigation for people like me where I constantly find myself coming back to bands that I haven’t heard in years to find them becoming something so … Continue reading Gravehuffer – NecroEclosion
Death metal is something that is so vast and explorative that it never ceases to amaze me what all the style it capable of across its many incarnations, and it’s sci-fi themed death metal that is slowly rising to become … Continue reading Cryptic Shift / Replicant / Inoculation / Astral Tomb – Chasm of Aeons
There’s never enough bands of the weird combination of black and heavy metal, and I’ve never been sure exactly why. It’s an endlessly promising mixture of sounds that have so much excellence done at any given moment so long as … Continue reading Okrutnik – Legion Antychrysta
Whenever I review an album from any given band, I’m typically not expecting to see more material from that act within at least a year since that tends to be the shortest stretch most go in order to keep that … Continue reading K Prouty – The Black Tide
It’s every now and then that we get a new act out of the vast online expanse of atmospheric black metal that is actually worthy of immense attention and analysis. When Soul Dissolution came around with their album “Stardust” two … Continue reading Soul Dissolution – Winter Contemplations
With year slowly but quickly coming to a close, the unseen scramble by many metal websites like my own are starting to collect their lists for their favorite albums of the year with some of them even starting to release … Continue reading Vrenth – Baptism Death
It’s oftentimes bands that swear by the power of the riff that can make the best impressions, even if there isn’t much else happening in the music outside some damn good riffage. Classic psych-rock is something that is so ingrained … Continue reading Dune Sea – Moons of Uranus
