Review: Conspiracy of Zero – Ahthos Arouris
Workaday melodeath with touches of folk-tinged brilliance shining through
Missed Albums Review: Chaos Frame – Entropy
After a long delay, I finally get to dunk on a former TPS writer’s album. Progressive power metal has never been this bad, trust me!
Missed Album Review: Ode and Elegy – Ode and Elegy
We sing now one very long song.
Review: Ypres – Solypso
Crushing post metal with an unexpected twang
Review: Thy Darkened Shade – Liber Lvcifer II: Mahapralaya
While the lyrics may be trope-y black metal, the music is anything but (that fretless bass)…
Missed Album Review: Downriver Dead Men Go – Ruins
An exploration of musical negative space that’s defined as much by absence as by its own content.
Missed Album Review: Toxik – Dis Morta
With as many hooks as a tackle shop, Toxik play mind-bending technical thrash metal which is the best the genre has seen since Terminal Redux.
Missed Album Review: Inhalo – Sever
Alt metal gets creative.
Missed Album Review: Tiwanaku – Earth Base One
A wildly ambitious debut release results in an inconsistent album
Missed Album Review: Scarcity – Aveilut
Hovering at the very outskirts of listenability, Aveilut is the terrifying sounds of an accomplished composer reconciling with death–truly haunting.