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Steel Druhm’s Top Ten(ish) of 2019

On January 2, 2020 By Steel Druhm

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Grymm’s and Kronos’ Top Ten(ish) of 2019

On December 30, 2019 By Dr. Wvrm

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Daxma – Ruins upon Ruins [Things You Might Have Missed 2019]

On December 7, 2019 By Carcharodon

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Driving Slow Motion – Arda Review

On June 23, 2019 By Carcharodon

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Record(s) o’ the Month – January 2019

On February 4, 2019 By Angry Metal Guy

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A Swarm of the Sun – The Woods Review

On January 9, 2019 By Steel Druhm

Isolation, misery and despair. These are the grey building blocks A Swarm of the Sun use to craft their unique soundscapes of depression and suffering. The work of Erik Nilsson and Jakob Berglund, this project has explored the human experience in harrowing ways, most notably on 2015s masterpiece of pain, The Rifts. That album cut a hole in my soul like no other album ever did, even though I was in a good place in life at the time with no particular reason to bask in the suffocating despair the band so effortlessly conjures. Their sparse brand of post-rock/metal and quasi-doom is unlike anything else out there, possessed of a grim power that drains all the light and joy from the world, consigning you to endless cancer wards and funeral parlors to witness the grace and desperation that comes at the end of life. The Woods sees the dour duo return with another dose of downer post-rock, and it's predictably bleak and unsettling." The hearts of darkness.

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