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Morbus Chron - Sweven (Century Media, 2014)
I wrote about the incredible new Morbus Chron album over at Scratch the Surface Webzine. Dig it.
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Thou - Heathen (Gilead Media, 2014)
I wrote about Thou's titanic new album with a bit of brevity over at Metal Bandcamp.
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Thantifaxath - Sacred White Noise (Dark Descent, 2014)
This Thantifaxath album is outrageous, gorgeous, righteous. I try to wrap my head around it over at Scratch the Surface Webzine.
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Onward to Deathfest
I’m going to Maryland Deathfest this week. After years of false starts, failures, wimp-outs, and disaster, I’m finally going to make this happen. It’s been fourteen years since I last attended a...
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Incantation - Dirges of Elysium (Listenable Records, 2014)
I wrote a bit about the new Incantation album because it's awesome, naturally. Check it out at Scratch the Surface.
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The Best of What You've Missed
This past week I wrote for Last Rites for the first time, contributing to days two and four of their feature on hidden gems of the first half of 2014. I wrote about Irkallian Oracle and Lay Down...
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Horrendous - Ecdysis (Dark Descent, 2014)
I drop bombastic praise upon the spectacular new Horrendous album over at Last Rites. Ecdysis will undoubtedly be one of my favorite albums of the year.
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Execration - Morbid Dimensions (Duplicate Records/Hells Headbangers, 2014)
The new Execration album is an excellent addition to the year's bounty of inventive and off-kilter death metal. I wrote about Morbid Dimensionsover at Metal Bandcamp. Don't miss this late-year great.
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My Year in Metal, 2014 - 20 Favorite Albums
Here are my favorite albums of 2014. This year my list lives at Last Rites, because that's where it's at.
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Favorite Bandcamp Finds of 2014
Thought I was done with 2014? Not quite; I wrote about the golden oldies I unearthed on Bandcamp in the last year. Check it out over at Metal Bandcamp.
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Heaving Earth - Denouncing the Holy Throne (Lavadome Productions, 2015)
Heaving Earth do death metal my way. I wrote about their delicious new album at Metal Bandcamp.
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Nachtreich/Spectral Lore - The Quivering Lights (Bindrune Recordings, 2014)
I wrote about The Quivering Lights, the extraordinary collaboration between Nachtreich and Spectral Lore, at Last Rites.
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Khthoniik Cerviiks - SeroLogiikal Scars (Vertex of Dementiia)
A gem of extreme artifice. Pleasing, perplexing death-black oddity. Voivod vaulting The Chasm, or Atheist genuflecting in the Chapel of Ghouls. Elastic and intricate. Loosely woven, elusive threads...
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Aosoth / Order of Orias - Split 12”MLP
Aosoth: can do no wrong at the moment. Perpetuates their peculiar, glorious sonic oeuvre. Miasmic overtures swarm around a perfect percussive performance. Riffs most ominous are mysteriously...
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15 Favorite Albums of 2015
15. Beaten to Death - UnpluggedSpastic, sarcastic grind of the finest kind. Eccentric guitar tones, live vibe, random for-reals melody. Album the third is worthy.Unplugged by BEATEN TO DEATH14. Maruta...
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Necrosemen - Vglns
Single-minded savagery. Beastly death-drone minus the murk. Charismatic, guttural ravings rife with murderous intent. Dense, hyperblasting epiphanies writ in guitar tones most meaty. Vglns by NECROSEMEN
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Kult Mogił - Anxiety Never Descending
Delightfully not-quite-right death. Off-kilter explorations of anxiety and discord, made coherent by dedication to the wicked riff. Blessed by space, where doomed, festering concepts can flourish, then...
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Lost Writings 2015
Writings & contributions that never made their way to this site:A Devil's Dozen - Iron Maiden, Volume 2A Devil's Dozen - Bolt ThrowerLast Rites MDF Fantasy DraftA Devil's Dozen -...
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Forndom - Dauðra Dura
A slow unfurling of ancient sounds and ritualistic atavism; a singular sonic experience. Scandinavian chant borne on on pulsing rhythms and haunting melody. Assorted primitive instruments accompany the...
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Gygax - Critical Hits
Unabashed heaviness of the auld school, executed with charismatic aplomb. This is how I want my straight-up heavy metal served, but modern purveyors consistently disappoint. Gygax roll a natural 20,...
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