Mar23

Night Goat – Totem Review

Night Goat – Totem Review

Totem is a difficult album to pin down, probably because Night Goat are a difficult group to pin down. The promo material describes them as “abrasive, slashing, dark noise rock/death rock, with elements of goth, post-punk, and doom.” I think that’s as fitting a description as any, although I also hear no a small amount of sludge and hardcore creeping in from time to time.” Never unchain the night (goat).

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Cisza – She Yearns for Other Worlds

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Cisza – She Yearns for Other Worlds

“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our writers in boot or bolster of the bands who remind us that, for better or worse, the metal underground exists as an important part of the global metal scene. The Rodeö rides on.” Poland invades YOU!

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Fracturus – Versus the Void

AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö: Fracturus – Versus the Void

“AMG’s Unsigned Band Rodeö” is a time-honored tradition to showcase the most underground of the underground—the unsigned and unpromoted. This collective review treatment continues to exist to unite our writers in boot or bolster of the bands who remind us that, for better or worse, the metal underground exists as an important part of the global metal scene. The Rodeö rides on.” Void fractions.

Outlaw – Reaching Beyond Assiah Review

Outlaw – Reaching Beyond Assiah Review

Outlaw is a young band hailing from Sao Paulo, Brazil by way of Hamburg, Germany. They play a dense, melodic style of black metal. Or is it a more blackened style of melodic death metal? I confess this is one of those times where I’m not sure what to call it. Their third full-length album, Reaching Beyond Assiah may have a title that reduces Dr. Grier to boyish snickering, but make no mistakes, it has plenty of brutal riffage to kick your Assiah.” Breaking the jaw, breaking the jaw.

Hellish Form – Deathless Review

Hellish Form – Deathless Review

“Here at AMG and Sons LLC we have a strict “no promo, no review” policy which must be adhered to at all times except for when we don’t feel like it. Back in 2021, we received a promo for Hellish Form’s debut Remains, I reviewed it favorably, and it eventually landed on my year-end list. Imagine my surprise when I found out a week ago that the funeral drone two-piece had released their follow-up, Deathless without sending us a promo. In fact, they’ve released it with very little fanfare at all based on my internet sleuthing. First, Willow Ryan and Jacob Lee, if you’re reading this, click here. Second, you’re not getting away that easy.” Only death amd reviews are inevitable.

Wind in His Hair – Future Primitives Review

Wind in His Hair – Future Primitives Review

“When we think crust punk and in particular its blackened interpretations, it wouldn’t be remiss to think of acts like Young and In the Way, Ancst, or Trap Them – acts defined by violence. Berlin’s Wind in His Hair, named after Rodney A. Grant’s Lakota character in the 1990 movie Dances with Wolves, settles in violence’s wake rather than any assault of its own. Debut Future Primitives is undeniably blackened crust punk, focusing on the earth’s destruction and the marginalization of indigenous peoples throughout.” And the wind whispers… wiolence.

Netherlands – Severance Review

Netherlands – Severance Review

Netherlands has been kicking, screaming, and blowing out subs with furiously fuzzed twangs for a little over ten years now. Up until receiving this promo for their seventh album, Severance, I had no idea this band existed. Powered primarily by Brooklyn native Timo Ellis, ever busy with various groups (Cibo Matto and Morningwood, to name a couple) ranging from power pop to stoner rock to art rock, Netherlands explores the loudest and proudest of what the multi-instrumentalist has assembled over the years.” No sleep til…Netherlands!

Aara – Triade III: Nyx Review

Aara – Triade III: Nyx Review

“There’s a lot of pressure going into Triade III: Nyx, after two installments of killer black metal preceding it. I became a believer, a traveler in their gas-lit and cobblestone Victorian world, with second installment of their trilogy, 2022’s Triade II: Hemera. A series established upon the 1820 novel Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin, it follows the titular Melmoth as his deal with the devil comes to a bitter conclusion: with the death of his lover in the dungeons of the Spanish Inquisition. Doomed to long life, a gift originally too good to be true, Melmoth cannot save himself nor his lover or child. Nyx, like the goddess of night of its namesake, is a more morose, darker, and more devastating beast compared to its predecessors.” Immortal wounds.