ANCESTRAL LORE – Behind the Night Horizon

About a month ago, the French one-man band named Ancestral Lore released this 7-track offering both digitally and physically with the latter being a CD limited to 50 copies. The music that mastermind Christoph Florian has conjured up here is deeply rooted in pagan metal, folk metal, and black metal, which is to say that…

INANIMATE EXISTENCE – Clockwork

It took this San Francisco Bay Area progressive/technical death metal ensemble 8 years and 5 albums to finally create something fans of Morbid Angel and Death could equally enjoy in "Clockwork". The two aspects of the band’s sound: the brutal technical death and the progressive melodicism have been there from the start but they were…

ASSATUR – Where Chaos Reigned

Finnish death dealers Assatur have compiled a rather foul and grimy slab of ugly metal and unleashed it via Great Dane Records, and if you consider yourself a fan of old-school death metal ala Autopsy, Grotesque, and Morbid Angel (the first couple of records), this one might just do the trick for you. With an…

CRYPTOPSY – live at Blå, Oslo –

      Cryptopsy, Demonical, Ingested and Gloryhole Guillotine Concert Review   Having seen Cryptopsy several times before, only once in Norway though, in Bergen so I knew what to expect. Previous experiences at big festivals aren’t definitely the same as to have the opportunity to see them at a smaller scene and a smaller…

HANDS OF GOD – Blueprint For Self Destruction

Stop looking at the world through rose-colored glasses! See the propaganda and the misery your government, your church, your schools are bringing on the planet and its inhabitants every day! Life is hard and merciless! Only the strong survive! I don’t really have to read the lyrics (not that they’re available) to this Californian hard…

ONDFØDT – Dödsrikets Kallelse

The sinister Finnish horde labeled Ondfødt turned out to be a rather (un)pleasant surprise for yours truly in the sense that they were an unknown entity to me and that I had not come across any of their music by chance beforehand. Then again, it is pretty fucking magnificent when one receives a quality release…

DREADNOUGHT – Emergence

The fourth full length from Coloradoan progressive doom metal ensemble, despite sounding very little like it, reminds me a lot of Panegyrist "Hierurgy" album: lengthy, convoluted compositions with hooks you have to look for with a fine tooth comb and a magnifying glass. Specifically to "Emergence", you appreciate the vocal and instrumental Tool meets The…

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