reviews for albums that I consider metal
Should you be even a little familiar with black metal, you know that the scene is one that has easily the most amount of variety and experimentation in all of metal. It’s something that constantly has us crawling back time … Continue reading Winds of Mayhem – Ascend, Thy River
The landscape of heavy metal itself is one that’s always interesting for someone like me to come back to every now and then as it’s something that’s always changing with many new bands coming out every so often, but it’s … Continue reading Serpent Lord – Towards the Damned
History has been a long favorite subject of mine simply because there’s so much of it to sift through that you can never know truly all of it and there’s always something new to learn. I’ve always been entranced by … Continue reading HolyArrow – Fight Back for the Fatherland
The vast majority of the time whenever I listen to anything that can be described as “post”, it’s rock rather than metal for two simple reasons. (1) There are far more post-rock bands than post-metal acts so more to choose … Continue reading Le Menhir – Aube
Collaborations are something that I’ve always really appreciated simply because it allows several different musicians to come together for a one-off album that’s something the likes of which we’ll likely never get again and haven’t heard anything quite like before. … Continue reading Krukh – Absurdity!
It was a little over a year ago at this point that we got one of the heaviest, most ambitious, and an extremely meaningful albums of doom metal in recent times: Bell Witch’s “Mirror Reaper”. Ever since then, it’s been … Continue reading Eremit – Carrier of Weight
As we enter the final month of the year, many of us writers like to gather around and talk about our favorite records of the year. This year has had an absolute plethora to fawn over from acts like YOB … Continue reading The Wandering Ascetic – Crimson
There’s no shortage of bands that bring us flavors of blackened death metal by any means whatsoever with it being an ever-popular style that seems a go-to for many fans wanting to create a sound that’s much more than either … Continue reading Bane – Esoteric Formulae
There are unique flavors that the worlds of death and doom metal are able to bring out independently, and obviously, that can be said about every single genre on the planet. But whenever death and doom come together it creates … Continue reading Vanha – Melancholia
The humble beginnings of any act are the sort of thing that I feel we’re all pretty hit or miss with as it’s, of course, when the band in question is still new so their style may not be fully … Continue reading Catalysis – s/t
