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Transcending Material Sins is made of interesting ideas and not always great execution. This is another of these albums I didn’t find all that great....
For their new album, Nightwish attempt nothing less than to pay tribute to music itself. They have always made songs about things they love, and...
Let’s have a nice creepy dive through a dark and compelling death metal abyss. Open Chest sounds like a throwback to old school death metal,...
Now that the world seems to be ending, let’s have some nice apocalyptic thrash metal. This album seems to be all about disaster and apocalyptic...
This is a nice catchy and energetic melodic death metal album. OK, so maybe some of you might find this too poppy and too generic,...
Esoteric Tales of the Unserene is the type of album where I can appreciate what the band is trying to do, and where I can...
Carnal Confessions is a disquieting and dark anti-Christian doom metal album. You’re going to hear a lot of ranting about organized religion, and perverted distortions...
This is a much better way to make an album that tells stories. This one really has it all: catchy verses and choruses, powerful vocals,...
This album is a really tasty slice of thrash metal, with some nice fast riffs, great raspy and gritty vocals, and lots of evil attitude....
Music that you find bland tends to be the hardest to review. There’s only so many times you can stretch “it’s so unremarkable that there...
Anthem of the lost is a catchy piece of music, that takes inspiration from melodic death metal, and explores other genres to create a nice...
Kaldvard’s bio describes them as a band inspired by black metal, scary old legends and witch trials. And they successfully expressed all of that in...
That’s how you do black/thrash metal! With all the good stuff: some unrelenting heaviness and speed, very well-executed vocals that go from snarly and high-to...
The New Chapter is what would happen if those obscure death metal bands from the late 80s-early 90s had better production, but still kept their...
Marcia Funebre’s music consists of melodic yet gloomy black metal riffs, and deep growling death metal vocals. The vocals really are one of the band’s...
Forgotten by Last Wail feels like a mix of other albums I have reviewed. It sounds like a mix of power, thrash and death metal....
A bit like Ironguard, Alcotopia are a sort of mix of power and thrash. But Alcotopia has a dirtier, angrier thrash sound, with more emphasis...
Black metal bands that claim their misanthropy loudly and proudly can be silly, but try to find one with as much ambition as Decision to...
Towards Victory starts with a curious intro, very similar to the rest of the album. In this intro, the bass repeats the same growling line,...
Necro’s Propaganda is basically a dark joke album. It’s creepy and gross, but it’s not to be taken seriously. They make an album about their...