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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)…
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Review: Tchornobog/Abyssal – Tchornobog/Abyssal
The dream team (Andy and Zach obviously) is back at it again to review the new monstrous split full length between two experimental death metal powerhouses.
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Review: Ultar – At The Gates Of Dusk
They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.
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Review: SkyThala – Boreal Despair
A bunch of guys from Tennessee wrote high modern Russian classical??
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Review: Collapse Astral – Dans la Vallée des Astres
The intro lured me in to thinking there would be a more experimental album within, but this is a reasonable debut outing.
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Review: Fliege – One Day They’ll Wonder What Happened Here
“I dunno what the hell’s in there, but it’s weird and pissed off, whatever it is.”
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Review: Firtan – Marter
Firtan express bleak lyrical prose in a way only the German language can convey and combine it with a somber atmospheric black metal tonality.
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Review: Gonemage – Handheld Demise
What was originally intended to scare my peers ended up hurting my ears; however, Gonemage still have a relatively unique take on avant garde black metal worth trying for as long as you can stand it.
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Review: Wake – Thought form Descent
Canadian extreme metal outfit come back to your speakers with a release bound to awake your inner demons.
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Review: GUDSFORLADT – Friendship, Love and War
An hour of heavy metal infused black metal turns out to be way too much of a good thing.