Taking a sharp left turn from his iconic black metal sound, Tervaaja who’s the main brain behind Ruohtta brings us a unique and toe tapping goth rock album titled Juorni. The album is grim, taking a very nihilistic approach that is reminiscent of his black metal releases. While it would be easy to compare this…
With quite the impactful debut, hailing from the north of France comes Fardeaux, roughly translating to “burdens” in English, is a black metal duo who produce some rather creative music for the genre. Somewhere along the lines of Deathspell Omega, Andavald, and Dødsengel, this band is able to mold and bend the recognizable black metal…
A mysterious arrival from an equally mysterious act, Orthodox Impaler brings us their debut Pilgrimage of Hate and Mutilation. A pure and raw black metal release with cold production and an equally raw approach that harkens back to the olden days. While I can’t speak much of the band themselves, what they present is all…
Bringing us their debut demo, Mitternacht makes a blasphemous deceleration of war, presenting a solid textbook example of second wave black metal done flawlessly in the modern-age. While what is done here isn’t anything ground breaking or new, its refreshing to hear that the true cold soul of black metal still lingers around in this…
Declaring war from Mexico, the satanic guerrillero who goes by Tecuhtli Nexcoyotl lets his voice be heard with the latest full length album from his band Apocalyptic Noise dubbed, Sacrificios De Guerra. This is a blindingly noisy album with some intense production and hard hitting percussions that will literally rock you to your core. Taking…
Hailing from Turkey comes the debut release of Meluniblis titled Kill The Kuffar. This is a crushingly devastating war metal album, that heavily leans into the brutal death metal sound. Deep guttural vocals, wailing guitar riffs and some incredibly tight drumming and some cool production choices here and there certainly make for a memorable and…
The latest release from the mystical Telesterion. Continuing on their journey to uncover the Eleusinian mysteries, their latest release Myesis is very much a continuation of their first release, An Ear of Grain in Silence Reaped. Following much in the same ‘post-metal/prog-metal’ patterns, there’s something a bit more ethereal and doom laden with this release…
After a six year hiatus, the main brain behind the band Cober, Sheila Bommakanti returns with her latest EP titled Beautiful Dissent, a gorgeous practice and meditation with the rather underrated pedal steel guitar. This is long distance away from the first Cober album, Crashpilot which came out back in 2000, and the album that…
Slovakian outsider artist Nicholas Wintzler presents us with yet another experimental and extremely personal album titled Holuby v mláke which roughly translates to Pigeons in the Puddle in English. This is a rather interesting album with a very personal story behind it, which Wintzler generously shared with me. Over the course of six months, Wintzler…
This is the latest audial assault from the noise warlocks Josh Byrd and Edward Longo who form Skin Tension. This album, Celebrant, is a massive album, with only five tracks. There’s no point in me sitting here and listing all of the genres and sounds that have influenced this release, and this band in general,…