A mighty double review from both Angry Metal Guy and Steel Druhm for a mighty release Sabaton’s Carolus Rex.
4.5
Blood Mortized – The Key to a Black Heart Review
Just in time to wash away the bitter taste of Six Feet Under, comes this ridiculously sick death metal masterstroke by Blood Mortized. Taking the vicious old school Swedish death sound from their Bestial EP and improving on it in every way, The Key to a Black Heart is exactly what you want from the style and death metal in general.
Kontrust – Second Hand Wonderland Review
Happy Metal Guy waxes poetic about metal’s worst excesses and.. what? Likes them!? THAT’S IT! YOU’RE FUCKING FIRED!
Wodensthrone – Curse Review
Black metal and folk metal are tightly entwined in many ways, but also also have a fraught relationship. Both are often inspired my the beauty or bleakness of the natural world and frequently use pagan symbolism and iconography. Wodensthrone occupy a unique location in the liminal space between these two extremes.
Huntress – Spell Eater Review
Huntress is a theatrical band from SoCal that embodies everything we love to hate about SoCal. But, shit, sometimes even SoCal turns out stuff we love.
Inverloch – Dusk | Subside Review
Natalie Zed tells you why you should listen to the new Inverloch record. Like, maybe it’s good or something.
Anathema – Weather Systems Review
You can take the dirty hippy out of metal, but you can’t take the metal out of the dirty hippy.
Borknagar – Urd Review
Borky didn’t bork it this time.
Gorod – A Perfect Absolution Review
So Gorod doesn’t suck.
Hail Spirit Noir – Pneuma Review
This is a remarkable record… and I mean that in a good way this time.