Review: Vermilion Dawn – Boreal Valley
The Wisconsin death metallers are back after their stellar debut, but can their new EP compare to what came before?
Review: Enopolis – ISIHASTIKA
An instructive case study in how not to write music.
Review: Divinex – Dreamscapes
An improvement on the usual formula, but not a dream come true.
Review: Vordona – Quadrivium
We’re in the doldrums, guys. The winds of progressive metal do not blow this summer.
Review: Vexing – Grand Reproach
Sometimes I just want an elephant to step on me while smelling flowers.
Review: Sarmat – Dubious Disk / Determined to Strike
New York’s historic experimental jazz scene once again collides with metal in the most dastardly of ways with Sarmat’s first two releases.
Review: Infinite Spectrum – CAGE
Trapped in the CAGE of generic trad prog *one of my colleagues breaks the keyboard over my head*
Review: Dawn of Ouroboros – Velvet Incandescence
Dawn of Ouroboros fumbles the bag on their sophomore outing
Review: Witch Ripper – The Flight After the Fall
Hey baby I hear the sludge a-callin’, tossed ballads and musical Easter eggs, and well if I seem a bit critical well, baby, I’ve got Witch Ripper pegged! (They’re proggin’ again)
Review: Nospūn – Opus
This band came out of nowhere and casually said “yeah let’s do Scenes From a Memory but like, better, lol”