Rwake – Xenoglossalgia (The Last Stage of Awareness)
I don’t deny that I dig Rwake’s later stuff—pretty sure Rest cracked my year-end Top 10 in 2011—but I must admit I’d never heard…
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King Buzzo – This Machine Kills Artists (vinyl)
On the most superficial level, making an album like This Machine Kills Artists should be the definition of simplicity. How could it not be?…
Brothers of the Sonic Cloth – self-titled
One of the most highly hyped stoner/doom debuts of recent months, this Seattle trio features Tad Doyle, he of the second-tier grunge band bearing…
FURIA – Nocel
Man, at times like this, I wish I had a hint of Polish vocabulary. Anyhow, hello, blackened thrash! Right away we get evil chanting….
Ramlord – Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom
Since unleashing the self-described “opus to [the] inherent filth of mankind,” Crippled Minds, Sundered Wisdom, blackened crust comrades RAMLORD have focused on fine tuning…
The Melvins – Hold It In (Vinyl Vlog)
It might sound a little deliberately contrary but, in the current “more is more” music industry landscape (where more variant releases of albums on…
Marduk – Frontschwein
There’s such a thing as a regular Marduk album. Regular Marduk albums fit the template for the frosty second wave of black metal and…
Desolate Shrine – The Heart of the Netherword
So apparently the folks at Dark Descent Records (home of THANTIFAXATH, HORRENDOUS, & LVCIFYRE, among others) don’t want to give hapless metal scribes even…
ENSLAVED – In Times
First Impressions… Well, I couldn’t resist, I ate up the official stream made available by Nuclear Blast right away. As a longtime fan of…
Callisto – Secret Youth
Sincere and heartfelt, this is not an album for the casual listener; rather it is for the music lover who is prepared to give…