Review: Enopolis – ISIHASTIKA
An instructive case study in how not to write music.
Review: A.M.E.N. – The Book of Lies – Liber I
Clarinet virtuosity and black metal atmosphere collide on A.M.E.N.’s debut!
Review: Kostnatění – Úpal
Feel your sanity melt away as Kostanteni masterfully blends dissonant black metal with Eastern folk music. Hail the new black metal god of the desert!
Review: Amun – Spectra and Obsession
You never know what you have until it’s gone.
Review: Déhà & Gnaw Their Tongues – Rituel des Ancêtres
Two of metal’s premier workhorses meet, and the results are much more quality than quantity.
Review: Cicada the Burrower – Blight Witch Regalia
Portraying an artist breaking out of her cocoon, does Blight Witch Regalia have the emotional depth to adequately convey its subject material?
Review: Omega Infinity – The Anticurrent
Omega Infinity will serenade you (with a grip on your throat) as you witness the birth and death of universes.
Missed Albums Review: Antipope – Rex Mundi
What happens when you throw every melodic metal genre out there into a black metal sauce? Antipope happens!
Review: Oak Pantheon – The Absence
In an attempt to infuse every metal genre into one, Oak Pantheon managed to craft an okay album.
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)…