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Ancst - Ghosts of the Timeless Void
A black blizzard of death-laden d-beat, heavy on the hardcore influence, heavy as a really heavy thing. While replete with the mandatory, quasi-triumphal crust melodies, those melodies often veer...
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Mortiferum - Altar of Decay
Primal, out-and-out masterful mid-paced death. That elusive ideal many “old school” supplicants strive for unsuccessfully. Apex riffs riding manic rhythmic mastery at any speed, twisted by demented...
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Heavydeath - Sarcophagus In The Sky
Heavy as the deepest winter chill, the kind of chill that cracks the bones, Heavydeath are aptly named and aesthetically envisioned. Sarcophagus In The Sky is an album of dark midwinter hunting,...
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YHDARL - Loss
I knew I’d read the name YHDARL before their most recent album, Loss, came out, but I own none of their back catalog. Checking back in with 2017’s Antithesis, I realized why: They were a bit too far...
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Vile Creature - Cast of Static and Smoke
Explosive doom-sludge-punk dominance. Begins with a poetic account of nuclear apocalypse, then delivers an aural approximation of said planetary annihilation. The ensuing performance channels a good...
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Abyssal Vacuum - MMXVII
Abyssal Vacuum is a French, one-man back metal project. Its creator and sole performer, Sébastien Besson, is also part of the duo Dyslumn (which I just now realized put out an album I missed that I now...
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Mass Grave - Our Due Descent
Mass Grave are crust like the earth’s crust when it cracks open and spews forth lava. Mass Grave are crust in an unabashedly pro-forma way, yet their withering intensity and sheer disregard for...
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High Command - The Primordial Void
High Command intoxicate. The Primordial Void lets the hammer fall on two scorching crossover thrash tunes that harken back to all your favorite ancient styles without tipping over into retro-clone...
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Xenoblight - Procreation
Manic, masterful tech-thrash exuberance. Exploding with guileless, youthful fervor and wall-to-wall riffs. Recalls the frenzied madness of early Vektor, before they sailed off into cosmic liquefaction....
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Cicada the Burrower - The Great Nothing
The Great Nothing by Cicada the Burrower came to my attention via the fine folks over at Toilet ov Hell. I’m a sucker for one-man black metal, and the abstract cover art is also in a style that I found...
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Atanamar's 2018 Favorites
Atavisma - The Chthonic Rituals The Chthonic Rituals by AtavismaBaneful Storm - Invocations Invocations by Baneful StormBarús - Drowned Drowned by BarúsBurial Invocation - Abiogenesis Abiogenesis by...
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Basilysk - Emergence
Sounds like a “forward looking," quasi-death-tech-thrash nugget that might have floated out of the underground in the early 90’s, been completely missed, and then lovingly re-issued by an independent...
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Televiper's Twelve 2018 Favorites
Finnish old-school occultists settle some outstanding debts while reminding us what Amorphis could’ve been had they not strayed away from their roots. Existential Void Guardian by ConanA return to form...
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (March 31st, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are the albums we bought this week:Justin:Crowhurst - III (releases April 5): Crowhurst's back catalog of a bajillion releases made it difficult for me to find an entry point,...
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (April 7th, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are the albums we bought this week (April 7th):Justin:Déhà - Cruel WordsDéhà is in ALL THE BANDS, but the albums under his own name are something else. This is more “Alcest...
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (April 14th, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are the albums we bought this week (April 14th)Atanamar:Malignant Altar - Retribution of Jealous GodsOh dearest death, the powers of annihilation are strong with this one....
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (April 21st, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are the albums we bought this week (April 21st)AtanamarCosmic Putrefaction - At the Threshold of the Greatest ChasmFeelin’ the vibes of my tribe on this one with fragrant...
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God’s Bastard - Last Standing Village
When I first saw this pitched, it was described as a band “featuring members of Krallice and Floods.” I was a little fearful, because although I like Krallice, I didn’t know if I was in the right...
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (May 19th, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are the albums we bought this week (May 19th)Atanamar:Posessed - Revelations of OblivionWhat to expect in a comeback album from the death metal progenitors? I couldn’t imagine,...
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Money Talks, Bullshit Walks (June 24th, 2019)
Dollars don’t lie; these are albums we bought since last we spoke:AtanamarNucleus - EntityWhat was once fascinating but flailing death has evolved into a cogent and concise nonnative organism. Nucleus...
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