Review: Karmanjakah – Ancient Skills
The transitional bones in a fossil record yet to be written
Review: Vedalia – Cormorant
Another year, another quality prog-power project that DOESN’T EVER TOUR GODDAMMIT
Review: Hexed – Pagans Rising
Bog-standard symphonic metal with excellent vocals and decent production.
Review: Condemned-AD – Follow a Failing Leader
Condemned-AD delivers an energetic thrash metal ride that certainly entertains, but that teases a measure of complexity it fails to ever really develop.
Review: An Abstract Illusion – Woe
A sophomore album so massive it took two reviewers to conquer it!
Review: Clayshaper – Vampiric
The Shaper conjures up something wicked in his debut album but evil tends to come at a price…
Review: Loch Vostok – Opus Ferox – The Great Escape
Quality writing has no genre, and it carries this album that somehow manages to have no identity for 48 minutes and still be good.
Review: Scythelord – Earth Boiling Dystopia
Progressive dystopian-space-thrash that isn’t a Vektor clone. A must-listen.
Review: Eye of Purgatory – The Lighthouse
Melodic death that is heavy, not overindulgent, and well-balanced.
Review: Starscape – Colony
A progressive sci-fi take on classic 80s heavy metal.