The Lurking Fear – Death, Madness, Horror, Decay (Album Review)
Embrace the Lovecraftian horror. The cemetery grass may be greener on the other side of the death metal hill, but rarely is it the case…
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Funeral – Praesentialis In Aeternum (Album Review)
Beautiful dirges break the sorrowful earth. Since the bleak world of doom metal first came to the world via the trailblazing efforts of Black Sabbath,…
Unanimated – Victory In Blood (Album Review)
A black-blooded legacy reemerges. Relegated to obscurity almost to the day of their initial inception in the late 1980s, Swedish death metal warrior outfit Unanimated…
Perpetual Etude – Now Is The Time (Album Review)
There is no time like the past. Sweden has basically been ground zero for the explosion of 80s heavy and speed metal revivalism, culminating in…
Kryptos – Force Of Danger (Album Review)
An archaic danger looms. Though heavy metal may not be at the point of supplanting English in its de facto status as the common tongue…
Herman Frank – Two For A Lie (Album Review)
The Teutonic storm has commenced. With nearly 40 years of heavy metal history at his back, veteran trustee of old school Teutonic fury Herman Frank…
Aquilus – Bellum I (Album Review)
Darkness envelops the natural world. Thinking outside the box and conjuring up something that is truly original is often a task best suited to a…
Wolftooth – Blood & Iron (Album Review)
A primordial heroism returns. Nostalgia is a powerful ally in today’s metal scene, sharing an almost equal footing with originality, and the best bands to…
Volbeat – Servant Of The Mind (Album Review)
Familiarity begets unpredictability. While an obvious far cry from the 90s death metal mayhem that originally typified his career with Dominus, guitarist and vocalist Michael…
Manimal – Armageddon (Album Review)
A looming shadow graces the end times. Labels are a useful tool in connecting objects with those whom seek them, but they are naturally imperfect…
