Hailing from the cold Finnish wastes comes the mysterious black metal occultists known as Kêres with their latest musical offering Flaming Ash. This is their fourth EP, though the contents inside makes it feel like a full length. Its densely packed with cold melodic riffs that evoke this deep sense of melancholy. Its about as…
Hailing from the decrepit underground of Portland comes the brutal death metal band Torture Rack. This is their debut album, Barbaric Persecution which came out back in 2015. This is death metal at its finest. No playing around, just pure auditory assault with plenty of gore and violence to spread with this album. Bordering on…
Hailing from the decrepit US underground Abysmal Lord presents us with their third full-length offering known as Immortal Hunger. A furious and demonic bestial war metal album that crushes it’s listener into submission. If you’re even somewhat familiar with other bestial acts like Proclamation, Blasphemy, Black Witchery, and many others, than you’re gonna know this…
Returning from the battlefields the Scythian warriors known as Hate Forest return with war hymns to preach to the masses. Innermost is the name of their latest full length which doesn’t deviate at all from the typical Hate Forest formula of intense blast beats, deep growling vocals, and impeccable riffs that are simply addicting to…
Finnish black metal legend Satanic Warmaster returns with their latest full length release, Aamongandr a textbook foray into the bowels of black metal its self. What you see is what you get here, pure black metal done in the style of old with a touch of symphonic melodies to give this powerful album a beautiful…
Hailing from Poland, TRUP makes their morbid appearance with their latest release, NIE. This is a crushingly heavy release, sporting five albums that have elements of black metal, hardcore, power violence, and any other heavy metal genre you can probably rattle off. Keeping them selves rather cryptic with the meaning behind their tracks, what little…
Hailing from mythical isle of New Zealand comes a husband and wife duo known as Winterwood. One of their releases, which came out earlier this year titled, Exploratory Guitar is very much what the title entails. A deep and personal ambient improvisation of Zac Winterwood’s long lasting relationship with the electric guitar. With sweeping soundscapes…
Hailing from the underground two executioners hailing from Portugal present us with their blasphemous offering Under the Deathsign. This is a blackened death metal release filled with crushing guitars, punishing drums and hellish vocals that satisfy all war metal needs. There’s no denying the uncompromising take that his band has and the dark enjoyments that…
Hailing from Sicily comes a unique metal release under the banner of Dramanduhr titled Tramhor. This is an album done completely in a fabricated language dubbed ‘Dahrmonium’. On first listen it sounds like a strange mixture of Egyptian, Greek, ancient Iberian and Latin combined in a way that works musically but at the end of…
The latest release from Moonlight Cypress Archetypes, SkyThala brings a more orchestral and symphonic approach to black metal taking heavy influence from famed Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. There’s a strong sound created here and stands out from the rest of the MCA catalog. There’s real deep intensity not only within the metal passages but the…