Review: Stone Healer – Conquistador
An unlikely but outstanding combination of Opethian grunge and blackened mindfuckery that’s honest, soulful, and relentlessly engaging.
Review: Intonate – Severed Within
Wonderful dissonant tech death with enough elements from black and doom to be fresh and exciting
Review: Betrayal – Disorder Remains
Bangin’ but uncreative death metal, enter at your own risk.
Review: Unflesh – Inhumation
A great blackened techy melodic death album that has atmosphere to match its morose cover.
Review: Exanimis – Marionnettiste
An incredibly strong orchestral death metal album with a brainy progressive edge.
Review: The Beast of Nod – Multiversal
Impressive fretboard wizardry, gnarly snarls, blistering synths, and lyrics detailing fictional intergalactic histories… what’s not to love? This is unique, nerdy, progressive death metal goodness.
Review: Ad Nauseam – Imperative Imperceptible Impulse
Impeccably written discordant, atonal chaos: impenetrable, oppressive, and heckin’ brilliant.
Review: The Lylat Continuum – Ephemeral
Literally drifting through space, watching the world burn, awaiting your demise. One can either seek bliss or turn to madness.
Review: Sea Sleeper – Nostophobia
A Gojira esque post metal./sludge album. which may rely a bit too heavily on the slamming riffs.
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?