Doomsday // May 2021
Hail to thee, Heaviest of All Bloggers! Welcome once again to the column of doom and gloom and riffs and licks and fuzz and bass and all sorts of other good stuff. As always, it is truly a wondrous pleasure to... Read More...
Oryx – Lamenting A Dead World
Ho hum. Another year, another release from the incredible Denver metal scene. Don’t you all get just as bored with these incredible bands as I do? That’s as far as I can fake those kinds of comments because we... Read More...
Tombs – Under Sullen Skies
When we get band promos, we typically receive a few things. Of course we get the album, but we also get a lot of promotional materials like press releases and photos and the like. I sometimes read the releases... Read More...
Rorcal – Muladona
The end-of-year bonanza that comprises most of November and December is both exhilarating and frustrating for music writers. On the one hand, it’s refreshing to be given the opportunity to initiate an organize... Read More...
Mantar – The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze
Despite being just a guitar and drum duo, Mantar still sound just as massive as their modern sludge metal brethren. On their third album The Modern Art of Setting Ablaze, Erinç Sakarya (drums, vocals) and Hanno... Read More...
Gaerea – Unsettling Whispers
Black metal is formulaic in nature. The tropes of the genre have been recycled and reused on an endless spectrum. Bands have been integrating strange things into the style for a long time, yearning to breathe l... Read More...
Encircling Sea – Hearken
Five years on from their atmospheric, neofolk-inspired album, A Forgotten Land, Australia’s Encircling Sea have returned with a release that takes the band’s unique blend of black, post, and doom metal in a fre... Read More...
Release Day Roundup – 4/6/18
Each month, we always seem to come to the same conclusion when it comes to our Editors’ Picks column: Friday release days open the floodgates and unleash a seemingly endless stream of quality new music. But whi... Read More...
ORYX – Stolen Absolution
Heaviness – that all important, ever elusive, sonic be-all and end-all – can come in many different guises. Black metal traditionally chases heaviness through tremolo-picked surging speed and haunting yet beaut... Read More...
Heavy Rewind: Lord Mantis // Death Mask
What exactly makes a good metal song or album? How does solid songwriting create a critically-acclaimed album? Some think that experimentation is the way to go, and with the recent rise in black and death metal... Read More...