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EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Listen to Slowly Building Weapons Summon “Armada of Ghosts”

October 22, 2020

Another day, another fantastic band from Australia. This time around, we have the excellently named Slowly Building Weapons and their fever-like brand of experimental doom, blending the more tripped out elemen... Read More...

Kvlt Kolvmn // October 2020

Jonathan Adams

October 5, 2020

Columns, Kvlt Kolvmn

Greetings, frost-bitten hoard! Welcome to another edition of Kvlt Kolvmn. The weather is beginning to turn, leaves are falling in droves and the first pricks of cold are seeping into the air. It’s finally here... Read More...

EXCLUSIVE PREMIERE: Yovel Are Back With Their “Epitaph”

Eden Kupermintz

September 11, 2020

Premieres

Back in April, I told you all about Greek, antifascist, black metal band Yovel and their explosive style of music. In case you don't remember, these guys make a sort of high concept, high intensity form of bla... Read More...

Flash of the Blade // September 2020

Eden Kupermintz

September 2, 2020

Columns, Flash of the Blade

Greetings one and all and welcome back to Flash of the Blade! Don't remember what this column is about? Luckily, it's easy to remind you: this column is about short releases that go hard. Also, swearing. Which... Read More...

Drouth – Excerpts from a Dread Liturgy

Pete Williams

September 2, 2020

Reviews

I typically find myself doing what I’ve been referring to as “challenge listening.” Not that it’s always something I find difficult to listen to or something like that. Usually, I just try to listen to music I... Read More...

Krallice – Mass Cathexis

Jonathan Adams

August 13, 2020

Reviews

It’s been written numerous times over the past several months, but more than at any other point in time it bears repeating here: Colin Marston is absolutely owning 2020. His recording and production aesthetics... Read More...

Amidst the Madness of Bandcamp Fridays, Botanist Release “Ecosystem Version B”

Eden Kupermintz

August 12, 2020

Listen To This!

Let me be straight with you: while I love Bandcamp Fridays and all that they do for our communities, it's also a pretty harrowing day for me. I buy all my music from Bandcamp and as a result, I'm subscribed to... Read More...

Incantation – Sect of Vile Divinities

Jonathan Adams

August 11, 2020

Reviews

The old guard of death metal has a progressively steeper hill to climb when it comes to maintaining relevance. The current state of death metal is bursting at the seams with up-and-coming talent, with bands li... Read More...

Battlemaster – Ghastly, Graven & Grimoireless

Eden Kupermintz

August 7, 2020

Reviews

As a rule, people tend to apologize too damn much. I get it, I do it as well. It comes from a basic sense of decency, a need to feel like we're not a burden, that we're cool, that we're nice. But when it spins... Read More...

Editors’ Picks – July 2020

Heavy Blog

August 7, 2020

Editors' Picks

We're still doing this, huh? We're still pretending as if this is as worse as it gets, as if it this is rough, sure, but we can do this, we got this? For me, July (and August) are when everything gets even wor... Read More...

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