Review: Meer – Playing House
Catchy hooks and outstanding vocals from a Norwegian alt-pop octet.
Review: Scarred – Scarred
When an absurd variety of metal influences form a progressive metal soup, one must ask: do too many subgenres spoil the broth?
Review: Wowod – Yarost’ I Proshchenie
A hybrid-album of sorts, bound to please those that crave both speed and lack thereof.
Review: Need – Norchestrion: A Song for the End
With Norchestrion, Need continue to be a strong light for those longing for how prog metal used to sound.
Review: Devil’s Reef – Chosen by the Sea
Brief and casual aquatic-horror tech death.
Review: Enrapture – Another Green Drought
Post-metal cupcake with sludge, black metal and math rock sprinkles.
Review: Thermohaline – Maelström
Aggressive, oppressive, evil, and avant-garde. What more do you want?
Reports from the Underground: 2020 Albums of the Year
2020, we hardly knew ye- just kidding, we knew you, a lot. But at least we got to know your albums. Here were our favourites!
Lost in Time: Begnagrad – Begnagrad
A highly technical but non-snobby and at moments even humorous avant-prog album from Yugoslavia laced with Balkan and alpine folk influences. Nonsense at its best!
Review: Forlesen – Hierophant Violent
A combination of beautiful and unsettling doom/drone goodness.