Review: Gleb Kolyadin – Mobula
Like the titular mobula (manta ray), this album is graceful and otherworldly.
Review: Serpents of Pakhangba – Air and Fire
Me, you, and an ancient shamanic tribe in northeastern India… do we have a date?
Review: Everon – Shells
Even though we were still using flip phones the last time we heard from [Everon], Shells has lost none of the band’s old lustre.
Review: Crown of Madness – Memories Fragmented
O! let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven;
Keep me in temper; I would not be mad!
Review: Sarmat – Upgrade
The improv jazz/metal gods are back!
Review: Sleep Paralysis – Sleep Paralysis
A fine alternative to a 20-milligram dose of Benadryl.
Review: Pathogenic – Crowned in Corpses
This album will undoubtedly stab you in face, as the art implies.
Review: HARP – The Distance Within
Apologies for HARPing on and on about this one.
Review: Seventh Station – On Shoulders of Giants
An homage to postmodernist composers and a rejection of conventionality, this is prog metal pushed to its limits.
Review: Jinjer – Duél
The Ukrainians deliver some groove metal goodness,