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Mourir - Insolence
I scream, you scream, we all scream for core-tinted black metal. Still black as fuck, but it burns with a bit more humanist verve when you've got Plebeian Grandstand in your pedigree. This searing,...
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Chaos Inception - Vengeance Evangel
Some death metal conceptual constructs can only be facilitated by an outrageous rhythm section. Vengeance Evangel is a vulgar display of such powers. Guitar acrobatics of a certain ilk (think "Unholy...
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Pissgrave - Malignant Worthlessness
My platonic ideal of extreme music is a calculus of density, intensity, speed, chaos, precision, and skill. Pissgrave fuck this equation sideways with an overwhelming dose of entropy. When the...
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Délirant - Thoughteater
I am drawn irresistibly to music that evokes "evil", quite often to the detriment of my ears and sanity. Malevolent intentions rarely bear pleasurable fruit. Délirant do achieve a delicious,...
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Impurity - The Eternal Sleep
HM-2 pedals, de-tuned guitars, and bouncy riffs do not a death metal masterpiece make. Impurity, however, leverage those base tools of the old-school to create something worthy. Although I cherish...
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Exterior Palnet - Haragma II
Album-as-experience, a cracking, finely crafted danse macabre. Well honed movements and forms, of both clear provenance and sui generis searings. Its central pillar is a chiming, upper-register black...
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Grey Aura - Zwart vierkant: Slotstuk
Few albums so diverse can lay claim to a coherent, creative whole. Beyond the vacuous descriptor of "avant-garde*", Grey Aura ground their sound in black metal, perhaps. Perhaps. But only in as much...
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Light Dweller - The Subjugate
Light Dweller hawk eccentric, esoteric, sludgy-progressive-death that is unexpected in entirely welcomed ways. Perhaps that mythical beast known as "atmospheric death metal"? Warning: here be...
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