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Review: Novembers Doom “Amid Its Hallowed Mirth” [Avantgarde Music]

Novembers Doom are one of the stranger bands that we’ve tend to associate with the doom/death metal genre. They began as a faithful doom/death metal...

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Review: Utumno “Across the Horizon” [Cenotaph Records]

Although Swedish death metal consists of a few key ingredients, it goes without saying that most bands that were around during the genre’s peak had...

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Review: Meshuggah “Immutable” [Atomic Fire]

Here is an exploration through a dark and strange world, with its peculiar songs, a sense of unease but also a sense of bravery and...

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Review: Paradise Lost “Forever Failure” [Music for Nations]

Singles aren’t my usual pick of choice, but since my curiosity got the best of me, I had decided to give this one a shot....

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Review: Swallow the Sun “Moonflowers” [Century Media Records]

Two years have passed before Finnish doom/death metal stars Swallow the Sun delighted us with full-length records, and in the late fall Century Media has...

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Review: Omnium Gatherum “Origin” [Century Media Records]

Finnish melodic death guys Omnium Gatherum in early November have released their ninth LP Origin in collaboration with Century Media Records. And despite some line-up...

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Review: Celtic Frost “To Mega Therion” [Noise Records]

It always fascinates me how quickly the musical ideas and visions of certain artists change over time. Who’d be a better example than Tom Warrior...

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Review: Malevolent Creation ”Warkult” [Nuclear Blast Records]

Built to Order, Made to Last… Malevolent Creation is a band that was crucial in the second wave of the young but already developing death...

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Review: Abbath “Dread Reaver” [Season of Mist]

Get ready for wild adventures in a cold and dark world. Black metal isn’t all depressive moods and gloomy keyboards, it’s also fast kick-ass riffs...

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Review: Imaginature “Imaginature”

The end of the year for the Polish symphonic power metal band Imaginature was a landmark milestone – the release of self-titled debut album Imaginature....

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Review: Blood Red Throne “Imperial Congregation” [Nuclear Blast]

For the first time during the course of their 25-year career Norwegian death metal icons Blood Red Throne have got the deal with Nuclear Blast,...

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Review: Wardruna “Kvitravn – First Flight of the White Raven” [By Norse Music / Music For Nations / Columbia Germany]

Gather round for another ceremony of rune magic and folk songs around a campfire. Wardruna give us one more offering of their magical Nordic folk,...

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Review: Star One ”Revel In Time” [Inside Out Music]

After the rather mediocre mess that was Transitus, Arjen Lucassen completely redeem himself with what does best. A new metal opera in his typical amazing...

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Review: Mandragora Scream “Nothing But The Best” [Music for the Masses]

Gothic metal scene isn’t prospering at this moment, but there are some high-quality bands that have made their names and now are firmly holding their...

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Review: Dark Redeemer “Into the Deep Black” [Blasphemous Records]

In the end of September Italian band from Lombardy Dark Redeemer has released its debut album Into the Deep Black through Blasphemous Records. Yes, this...

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Review: Shape of Despair “Return to the Void” [Season of Mist]

Let’s return to a melancholic, desolate landscape, created by this tormented doom metal album. Yes, this is the kind of album that needs to be...

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Review: Black Sabbath “Headless Cross” [I.R.S. Records]

Ever since the proper vocalists became a part of Black Sabbath, the band’s sound had more or less become accessible (that’s not to say that...

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Review: Gwar “Lust in Space” [Metal Blade Records]

Ah, Lust In Space, my old High School companion. This was an album that got me through many a boring shift at work and drives...

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Review: Orbstruct “Deimos Falling” [Envenomed Music / Paragon Records]

In the end of September of 2021 the Ukrainian young death metal formation Orbstruct has released its sophomore full-length album Deimos Falling through local Envenomed...

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Review: Howlin May Queen “Tapes from the White Ballroom”

The debut album Tapes from the White Ballroom from British band Howlin May Queen has been released on 21st September of 2021 via mysterious music...