Review: Blackshape – Blackshape
Accurately self-proclaimed “Heavy, beautiful math”
Review: Stone Healer – Conquistador
An unlikely but outstanding combination of Opethian grunge and blackened mindfuckery that’s honest, soulful, and relentlessly engaging.
Review: Cicada the Burrower – Corpseflower
This is a truly magical and utterly unique album filled with lush, mellow, hypnotic soundscapes that eerily distort themselves into blackened, pained harshness, without skipping a jazzy beat. You need to hear it to believe it.
Review: Dead World Reclamation – Aura of Iniquity
A grandiose melodeath anthology of Lovecraftian tales.
Review: Sleep Terror – Above Snakes
Imagine if crunchy technical death metal was scattered through a spaghetti western movie.
Review: Odd Circus – Mantha
A brief dive into avant garde psychadelic insanity
Review: Unflesh – Inhumation
A great blackened techy melodic death album that has atmosphere to match its morose cover.
Review: The Elephant in the Room – The Elephant in the Room
A solid instrumental debut from a promising solo artist.
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: Black Sheep Wall – Songs for the Enamel Queen
For fans of: riffs as heavy as an elephant stepping on you.