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Félonie – De Sève et de Sang Review

By Carcharodon on October 12, 2023 in Reviews, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, 5 comments

“De Sève et de Sang (Of Sap and Blood) is the first release by one-man black metal outfit Félonie. However, its progenitor, Marc Bourban, has been on the scene in his native Switzerland for a number of years, notably with Tyrmfar (melodic black metal) and Wizards of Wiznan (sludgy stoner death), handling bass and guitar for the former, and on vocal and guitar duties for the latter. After years playing in other bands, Bourban decided it was time to release something entirely of his own creation and thus was Félonie spawned.” Swiss missive.

Stuck in the Filter – May’s Angry Misses

By Kenstrosity on July 28, 2023 in Stuck in the Filter, Black Metal, Death Doom, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Grind, Hardcore, Instrumental Metal, Mathcore, Post-Metal, Slam, Sludge, Stoner Metal, 69 comments

May Day is upon us, in July! Join us as we demonstrate what focused spring/early summer Filter cleaning can accomplish when you have motivated technicians.

Ocean of Grief – Pale Existence Review

By Steel Druhm on March 3, 2023 in Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 45 comments

A rare double review arrives with Steel Druhm and Doom_et_Al offering disparate takes on Pale Existence by Greek melodic doom-death outfit Ocean of Grief. Will it be clear sailing or storming seas (ov deep sadness)?

Oak – Disintegrate Review

By Steel Druhm on February 9, 2023 in Reviews, Black Metal, Doom Metal, 86 comments

“After submerging myself in copious death metal throughout January and early February, Steel‘s well-seasoned body needed a soak in the soothing tides of funerary doom-death. And so I happened upon the sophomore release by Portugal’s Oak. The side project of Gaerea lead guitarist/vocalist, Guilherme Henriques and featuring various current and former Gaerea members, it attempts a style far afield from what that black metal outfit is known for. This is classic funeral doom death across the boards, though it has a fair amount of blackened elements bubbling up as well. The gimmick here is that Disintegrate is but one 45-minute track.” Counting the rings of tragedy.

Stuck in the Filter – June’s Angry Misses

By Kenstrosity on July 8, 2021 in Blog Posts, Stuck in the Filter, Death Metal, Melodic Metal, Metalcore, Nu Metal, Progressive Metal, Rap Metal, Thrash Metal, 47 comments

“So here’s a segment you all likely are too young to remember/never thought you’d see again. And it comes from the most unlikely source to boot—me! I discovered this feature through one of our monthly staff review calls/execution ceremonies, and I thought it was a shame we don’t use it more often. This comes on the back of a month where many of us were swamped with life events, massive overtime at work, and other such stressors. Naturally, we missed a bunch of releases, both ones we received promo for and ones we didn’t.” No filter!

Worm – Gloomlord Review

By Cherd on January 20, 2020 in 2020, American Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Iron Bonehead Productions, Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 10 comments

“It never bodes well when a writer with squatter’s rights to a promo doesn’t raise a fuss when you snatch it from them. I selected Floridian death-doom band Worm’s second album Gloomlord from our putrid promo pit without doing my due diligence to see if they had been covered on the site before. Turns out they have, and the good Dr. Wvrm wasn’t even a little sorry to see this one go to a different writer.” Worm turns.

Hex – God Has No Name Review

By Cherd on July 9, 2019 in 2019, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Reviews, Spanish Metal, Transcending Obscurity, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 24 comments

“When I look at the cover art for the sophomore full-length, God Has No Name, by Spain’s Hex, I see a hyperbolic metal label distribution PR blurb made pictorial. ‘Riffs so heavy, so scorching, they splinter the Earth’s crust into black obsidian shard,’ it declares. Straight-faced, it adds ‘A sound so singularly malignant, it tears a hole in the very heavens above. As it rends the firmament, fire erupts from blah blah blah,’ you get the point.” Sounds of an apocalypse fading.

Slugdge – Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms [Things You Might Have Missed 2015]

By Saunders on December 15, 2015 in Death Metal, English Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Things You Might Have Missed 2015, Unsigned Bands, Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal, Progressive Metal, 29 comments

“Slugdge aren’t in the business of repeating themselves or narrowing their artistic scope. As such Dim and Slimeridden Kingdoms stands on its own as another weird, tripped-out journey into the strange headspace that Slugdge occupy.”
You can’t spell Slugdge without…sludge?

Atara / Miserable Failure – Hang Them Review

By Madam X on July 26, 2014 in 2014, Black Metal, Crust Punk, Death Metal, Doom Metal, French Metal, Grind, Hardcore, Kaotoxin Records, Reviews, Black Metal, Hardcore, 1 comment

“French grind with hardcore and black metal influence that screams of being “the noose that’ll suffocate your dry throat in an auto-erotic maelstrom of hatesphyxiation” – well now, don’t mind if I do!” Madam X can never say no to a nice noose. That’s why she works remotely and not at AMG headquarters.