Review: Oak Pantheon – The Absence
In an attempt to infuse every metal genre into one, Oak Pantheon managed to craft an okay album.
In an attempt to infuse every metal genre into one, Oak Pantheon managed to craft an okay album.
Workaday melodeath with touches of folk-tinged brilliance shining through
After a long delay, I finally get to dunk on a former TPS writer’s album. Progressive power metal has never been this bad, trust me!
While the lyrics may be trope-y black metal, the music is anything but (that fretless bass)…
An exploration of musical negative space that’s defined as much by absence as by its own content.
With as many hooks as a tackle shop, Toxik play mind-bending technical thrash metal which is the best the genre has seen since Terminal Redux.
A wildly ambitious debut release results in an inconsistent album