Profound Lore Records

The Deathtrip – Demon Solar Totem Review

By Dr. A.N. Grier on November 12, 2019 in 2019, Black Metal, International Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Svart Records, Black Metal, 19 comments

“Five years ago, Grier became more than a twinkle in AngryMetalGuy.com’s eye. Forever after, AMG was subject to the King of Clickbait. And, since then, you poor bastards have had to read the sometimes depressing, sometimes passionate, sometimes right and sometimes wrong moments of my career. In these early days of the Coming of Grier, there arose such an album that it still finds regular rotation for this ole Dok Tor. First, for its content—old-school, Scandinavian black metal. Second, for resurrecting a master of the black metal arts—Aldrahn. I loved The Deathtrip’s Deep Drone Master and still love it today. Not for its originality but, rather, for its commitment and flawless execution of ’90s Norwegian black metal. It wasn’t until I heard it that I realized how much I missed Aldrahn’s voice. But, Aldrahn has vanished once again. In his place stands Kvohst (ex-Code, ex-Void, and ex-Dødheimsgard).” Musical chairs and deathtrips.

Mortiferum – Disgorged from Psychotic Depths Review

By Holdeneye on October 9, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 28 comments

“I’m writing this down to memorialize the truths that I’ve recently uncovered, but let it also serve as a warning. A foul conspiracy is afoot in the Pacific Northwest, and I’m afraid that the knowledge I possess has already set in motion forces that will ultimately bring about my ~~death~~ doom. Read back through my journal entries and the evidence will be plain as day.” Watch the skies.

Nocturnus AD – Paradox Review

By Ferrous Beuller on May 27, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Death Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Death Metal, 90 comments

“There are few scenes that have been as instrumental in expanding metal’s horizon as Florida’s death metal explosion. Toiling towards the top of the totem has always been Nocturnus. Their debut album The Key will irrevocably remain a personal favorite and one of the genre’s canonical greats. Thanks to the incessant efforts of drummer and vocalist Mike Browning (of early Morbid Angel fame), the band has endured a tumultuous rebirth as Nocturnus AD. But can new album Paradox survive the curse of contentious re-branding and do justice to the band’s own lofty genesis?” The key to death metal’s past.

Dreadnought – Emergence Review

By El Cuervo on May 21, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Post-metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, Post-Metal, 53 comments

“Much has been made of the impressive alignment of metal bands from Denver, and Colorado more generally, in recent years, including Khemmis, Spectral Voice and Blood Incantation, among myriad others. But Dreadnought have always stood apart from other bands not just within that scene but within metal overall given their singular blend of diverse influences, creating something vaguely resembling doom metal but which has always had wide eyes for detail and grandiosity.” Embiggened soundscapes.

Dead to a Dying World – Elegy Review

By Master of Muppets on April 19, 2019 in 2019, American Metal, Black Metal, Doom Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Black Metal, Doom Metal, 68 comments

“If endlessly overused adages are to be believed, one might presume all Texas exports to tower over their non-Texan counterparts. I trust silly axioms about as much as I trust the Lone Star State, yet all the biases in the world cannot negate the fact that Dallas’ Dead to a Dying World delivered something downright tremendous with their sophomore full-length, Elegy. A colossal comprisal of epic atmospheric touches, devastating doom and sombre string-ed subtleties reflecting on the lost cause that is humanity, the album is certainly big enough for Texas and melancholic enough for Muppet.” Easy listening apocalypse.

Infernal Coil – Within a World Forgotten [Things You Might Have Missed 2018]

By Kronos on December 2, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Black Metal, Death Metal, Grind, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Things You Might Have Missed 2018, Black Metal, Death Metal, 80 comments

“I have not seen the sun for ten days except through a haze of ash. A fire the size of Chicago has been burning for as long upwind of me. Every day I am breathing as dust the lives it destroyed. The fire will not reach me, but it will not stop burning soon. There has never been a fire like this one before. I can do nothing about it even though I fueled a tiny part of it every day of my life. I cannot stop the next fire. I cannot know when or where the next horrible thing will happen. But this has happened, this will happen, and this will get worse. Amid my guilt and powerlessness, I seek art that reflects life. Nothing could better match the ash entering my lungs than Infernal Coil’s Within a World Forgotten.” Music for days of fire.

Evoken – Hypnagogia Review

By Ferrous Beuller on November 7, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Doom Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Doom Metal, 41 comments

“My history with Evoken handily mirrors my relationship with the genre these funereal leviathans so masterfully craft. If I’m not entirely of a mind to wallow in the brand of doom that lurches with the gait of mountains, then I struggle to fully commit. But funeral doom has never been for the casual listener, and rightly so. Evoken are ever the reliable constant and have returned to once again divide traditionalists with another morose mass of glacial grief. Hypnagogia is the Americans’ sixth album and arrives secure in its ability to fill some sizable shoes.” Death to joy.

Innumerable Forms – Punishment in Flesh Review

By Kronos on August 22, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Death Metal, Doom Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Death Metal, Doom Metal, 43 comments

“The humble tomato. Once thought fatal to humans, this plump berry of controversial dietary properties has become ubiquitous in world cuisine, and just as it has spread, it has diversified. You can pick up a watery, underripe reddish spheroid at any supermarket in America and it will usually get the job done for a salad or sandwich, but it’s the freshly picked, heirloom varieties that really showcase the tomato’s potential, not only as a part of your diet but also as a metaphor—a metaphor for death metal, perhaps.” Tomato, tom-ot-o, DIE!

Wayfarer – World’s Blood Review

By El Cuervo on June 6, 2018 in 2018, American Metal, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Profound Lore Records, Progressive Metal, Reviews, Atmospheric Black Metal, Folk Metal, Progressive Metal, 38 comments

“World’s Blood operates at a similar intersection of folk, atmospheric black metal, and progressive tendencies as Agalloch. I would make some terrible puns about if it can take up that mantle or if it would merely be a pale imitation of those folkloric influences but I won’t do so as a man of class.” Class is cancelled.

Portal – Ion Review

By Kronos on January 24, 2018 in 2018, Australian Metal, Avante Garde, Death Metal, Profound Lore Records, Reviews, Death Metal, 115 comments

“Since their inception, Portal’s outre take on death metal has been something of a curiosity; a malformed fetus suspended in sepia alcohol behind so many dusty artifacts. Few other artists have encroached on their sound, and even fewer can pretend to challenge their simultaneously dour and frenzied Victorian aesthetic. Theirs is horror music, to be sure, but the horror stems from a sort of noir psychedelia, an all-encompassing fractal unrest where the creak of the floorboards and the crack of colliding planets are indistinguishable in scope.” The cake is a lie.