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The Eternal – Waiting for the Endless Dawn Review

The Eternal – Waiting for the Endless Dawn Review

By Steel Druhm on August 13, 2018 in 2018, Australian Metal, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, Inverse Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, Gothic Metal, 44 comments

“Long time readers of Angry Metal Guy Blogworks and Important Opinion Emporium, Ltd., know I have a soft spot for sadboy melancholic doom. This led me to heap praise on Swallow the Sun’s mammothly meandering, overblown triple album suite, Songs of the North back in 2013. In the fullness of time, I downgraded the original score on my Contrite Metal Guy confessional, and hard lessons were learned: Some albums are simply too long-winded to work as well as they should. Now comes Australian act, The Eternal and their sixth album, Waiting for the Endless Dawn.” Why the long album?

Imperial Domain – The Deluge Review

Imperial Domain – The Deluge Review

By Steel Druhm on August 6, 2018 in 2018, Inverse Records, Melodic Death Metal, Reviews, Swedish Metal, Melodic Death Metal, 63 comments

“When Gothenburg’s Big Three uncorked their defining early 90s works followed quickly by Finnish death misers, Sentenced releasing their groundbreaking Amok opus, the world saw that death vocals could be successfully integrated with classic metal in the vein of Iron Maiden and Mercyful Fate. Thus was melodic death metal created and in the preceding years, one billion copycat bands spewed out in a torrid frenzy of imitation and mimicry. Sweden’s Imperial Domain was one of the faceless horde of bastard offspring to drop from that overly fertile womb, releasing their debut in 1998.” A cry from the 90s.

Unborn Generation – Vøid Review

Unborn Generation – Vøid Review

By Mark Z. on June 23, 2018 in 2018, Crust Punk, Finnish Metal, Grind, Inverse Records, Reviews, Crust Punk, 31 comments

“The hallowed Angry Metal Spreadsheet Ov Promos was the first time I’d heard of Unborn, and thus I decided to leave my reservations at the door, enter the Vøid, and find out just what these Finns were all about. Does this sixth full-length grind n’ roll, bump n’ grind, or just stand around looking ominous in a hooded sweatshirt?” Roll out the grinder!

Nicumo – Storms Arise Review

Nicumo – Storms Arise Review

By Akerblogger on July 11, 2017 in 2017, Finnish Metal, Gothic Metal, Inverse Records, Reviews, 23 comments

“Melancholy: a feeling of pensive sadness. Synonyms: desolation, woe, sorrow. The word, from its Latin and Greek origins, translates to black bile: too much of which in a person could cause depression. It’s a loaded word, that’s for certain, and it gets thrown around and attached to music cheaply and without much care. Too many words of melancholy’s ilk are over-used; too much hyperbole, drama and imaginative nonsense is bestowed upon average and uninspiring music (I’m also responsible for this sort of thing) and thus certain words, phrases, and images have lost their power completely.” Sad boys be sad.

Perpetual Rage – Empress of the Cold Stars Review

Perpetual Rage – Empress of the Cold Stars Review

By Huck N Roll on June 18, 2017 in 2017, Finnish Metal, Heavy Metal, Inverse Records, Reviews, Heavy Metal, 51 comments

“Look to the left. What do you see? One of the worst album covers of the year is what I see, and thus my expectations for Empress of the Cold Stars, the second release from Finland’s Perpetual Rage, are tempered. The fact that I’m reviewing this is a mixed blessing: on the one hand, we here at AMG aren’t subjecting you to a review of Wizard’s newest, since we didn’t get it. On the other hand, there’s this.” Oh, my cold stars and garters!

Narthraal – Screaming From The Grave Review

Narthraal – Screaming From The Grave Review

By Akerblogger on May 25, 2017 in 2017, Death Metal, Icelandic Metal, Inverse Records, Reviews, 30 comments

“Narthraal are very proud of the fact that they are the only band in Iceland using the Boss HM-2 pedal to produce their fat and filthy old school Swedish death metal sound. Attempting to replicate the classic chainsaw sound is a tall order and Narthraal have a lot to live up to. Screaming From The Grave is a debut album that unashamedly plonks itself in the heart of the early 1990s.” Let’s give them an everflowing left hand welcome.