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Hexvessel – All Tree Review

By sentynel On February 16, 2019 · 1 Comment · In 2019, Century Media, Finnish Metal, Progressive Rock, Reviews
"One of the big things I look for in music is a sense of being taken elsewhere, of stepping aside from the real. I work a stressful tech job, and the next best thing to ditching my desk and marching off into the woods is music that makes me feel like I'm adrift in an ancient forest. This means I'm a big fan of ethereal, folksy influences in my music. Esben and the Witch's Older Terrors established itself as one of my favorite records ever, and I enjoyed Hexvessel's first few releases for similar reasons." Let treedom ring.
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Witchgöat – Egregors of the Black Faith Review

By Mark Z. On February 15, 2019 · 61 Comments · In 2019, Black Metal, Morbid Skull Records, Reviews, Salvadoran Metal, Thrash Metal
"If you have a blackened thrash band, your band name must have the word "witch" in it. So it was written in the Great Book Ov Heavy Metal, so it was obeyed by Skeletonwitch, Witchaven, Bewitched, Witching Hour, Witchery, and countless others I'm sure are out there. El Salvador's Witchgöat are the latest addition to these unholy ranks and they've already earned my respect by having both an umlaut and a goat reference in their name." Which goat is Witchgöat?
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Vanum – Ageless Fire Review

By Cherd of Doom On February 15, 2019 · 121 Comments · In 2019, American Metal, Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews
"Vanum caught my attention with this gorgeous image of a violent geological process–a particular interest of mine–that is both legibly pictorial and pulling at the edges of abstraction. Tasteful typography and minimal framing compliments rather than competes with the painting. Interest piqued, I dug further and discovered this to be a project of K. Morgan and M. Rekevics of American black metal bands Ash Borer and Yellow Eyes, respectively, both of which I enjoy. Now firmly on the hook, my main question is: does the musical carpet match the visual drapes?" For lavas of fine art.
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Varego – I Prophetic Review

By GardensTale On February 15, 2019 · 85 Comments · In 2019, Argonauta Records, Italian Metal, Reviews, Sludge Metal
"I'm gonna go ahead and say it: making good music is hella difficult. Us reviewers have it easy; the only skill our trade requires is writing good. But an album has so many steps where it can falter and bring down the entire Jenga tower. The musicians have to be able to play their instruments reasonably well. If they have a vocalist it's double the trouble, judging by how many albums are tripped up by the vocals. Songwriting is a balancing exercise in and of itself; riffs, bridges, structure, all without sounding too derivative and trying for some originality. Then when you finally have everything put together, you have the recording and producing process, and it may still fall into traps of sounding lifeless or generic. It's a miracle any good albums are produced at all!" Me write good some day.
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Laceration – Remnants Review

On February 15, 2019 By Steel Druhm
"Slayer’s first few albums were bloody good weren’t they? I know it, you know it, and Californian  death thrashers Laceration know it too. It’s all here, that slightly grating scooped-mids guitar tone, heaping helpings of shredding riffs, throat-ripping vocals.  Not only that but these guys also enjoy quite a bit of early Metallica and Sepultura too, and chances are that if you’re a fan of any of that stuff, there will be something for you to enjoy on Remnants. Friendly violent fun.
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Backstabber – Conspiracy Theorist Review

On February 14, 2019 By TheKenWord
"Oh Canada. How doth thee provideth the world oodles of death metal. The country never seems to run out of new bands to show off every year. Usually I can expect good things from most of those bands, too, which is all the more impressive. To kick off the new year ov death metal, I abducted Québécois Backstabber and their self-released debut Conspiracy Theorist. Ten tracks (seven proper, three instrumental) of modernized death metal with a politically charged message of subterfuge and paranoia sounds like an interesting proposition. Can these guys sell me their scandals, or will they simply appear to me as loonies in tin-foil hats?" Watch the skies.
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Thornbridge – Theatrical Masterpiece Review

On February 14, 2019 By Eldritch Elitist
"When it comes to power metal, I’m really not difficult to please. My expectations for a good example of the genre are no more elevated than the baseline that Helloween established over three decades ago; the material needs to be fun, energetic, and hooky, and if a band can pull this off, I ask for little else. I don’t think there’s a power metal act out there that fails to identify this recipe for success, yet so very few of them manage to capitalize. The style is plagued by countless bands rehashing watered down pop melodies against toothless power chords, seemingly unable to perceive that they utterly lack the charisma that elevated their influences. Thornbridge sees these pretenders, and says 'we can do better.'" Though, with a name like Theatrical Masterpiece, there is a sense that they might be setting expectations a tad high.
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Herod – Sombre Dessein Review

On February 14, 2019 By Lokasenna
"Real talk: most of the time the intros for these things are the hardest part. Grueling, even. This is probably obvious, given how often they're rambling and off-topic, but it's the truth. It's even harder when resounding apathy is the limit of what one can muster after a week of listening to something, and that's where I am. The band, Herod, has got some talent, and are looking to make their mark with debut record Sombre Dessein, but the result is very mixed, unfortunately. A Swiss quartet of death/sludge progsters should be pretty engaging, at least in theory, so what went wrong here?" Rutting.
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10:13 – Result of an Iron Age Review

On February 14, 2019 By Steel Druhm
"I think we can all agree that the world is fucked. I was a middle school librarian for a few years and, while the majority of the population consisted of illiterate miscreants, the smarty-pants who could actually read (anything besides the latest Diary of a Wimpy Kid) would always go for a dystopian/post-apocalyptic book. From the holy trinity of Hunger Games, Maze Runner, and Divergent to newer and depressing takes on the genre, I’m convinced there’s gotta be something masochistic about indulging in a future whose bleakness rests solely on human shoulders, but every few years a new book or new movie will convince us again that such a future is inevitable without serious change. This brings us to newcomer 10:13, a new instrumental black metal act from the United States, whose sole member is multi-instrumentalist Neil Carter." In the Age of Iron, they were metal.
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Angel Splitter – Descension to Demonic Paraphilia Review

On February 13, 2019 By L. Saunders
"Finding a diamond in the rough amidst the uncompromising slam death landscape is always a pleasure. The grinding trials and tribulations of the average underground extreme metal band conspired against Seattle's Angel Splitter, with various circumstances leading to a significant delay of the release of their debut LP, Descension of Demonic Paraphilia, originally slated to drop last October. So strap yourselves in and prepare to be slammed." Welcome to the slam jam.
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