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Groza – The Redemptive End Review

Groza – The Redemptive End Review

By Dear Hollow on August 3, 2021 in Reviews, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, Melodic Black Metal, 37 comments

“I was tentative about taking this album. I was familiar with Groza’s debut Unified in Void from 2018, granting it a casual listen and making that “not bad” Obama Rage Comic face from 2012. If one peruses the Metallum profile of these Germans, you’ll be graced with the shocking sight of a whopping 0% average review score from three reviews. Why, you ask? Probably because — and maybe this is obvious given the act’s name and a certain Polish full-length debut — Groza sounds a hell of a lot like Mgła. That’s unfair, awarding no merit to an album simply because it imitates another. I mean, if fans cancelled every act that sounded like Transilvanian Hunger, we’d have no black metal left.” The end of influence?

Suicide Forest – Suicide Forest Review

Suicide Forest – Suicide Forest Review

By Master of Muppets on July 10, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Avantgarde Music, Black Metal, Reviews, Atmospheric Black Metal, Black Metal, 27 comments

“Summer: blah. Rampant blinding sunlight, not a dead tree to be found, and everywhere I go is plagued by incessant seasonal euphoria… I hate it, yo. Without autumn’s dying beauty or the melancholic jubilation of winter nights, I find little to sustain the part of me that feeds on natural darkness and am forced to hunt down anything that’ll let me at least hear that which I cannot presently see or feel. Enter Suicide Forest.” Put some winter in your summer.

Bloodbark – Bonebranches [Things You Might Have Missed 2018]

Bloodbark – Bonebranches [Things You Might Have Missed 2018]

By Master of Muppets on December 19, 2018 in 2018, Black Metal, Northern Silence Productions, Things You Might Have Missed 2018, Atmospheric Black Metal, 52 comments

“If you’ve been making the mistake of paying attention to me this year, you’ve probably noticed the name Bloodbark tossed about all William Nilliam. This phenomenon has occurred for two reasons, the first of which being that you likely have terrible tastes in role models. The second, more important reason, is that Bonebranches comprises forty minutes ov the most magnificently Muppetous metal music made amidst the massive, miserable mess mankind’ll ‘member as ‘2018.’” Muppet bones.