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With time comes experience and growth, and Valdrin has certainly taken advantage of time passed, lessons learned and exhibited growth on Two Carrion Talismans.
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With time comes experience and growth, and Valdrin has certainly taken advantage of time passed, lessons learned and exhibited growth on Two Carrion Talismans.
While the Deafheaven comparison can be justified, Further Still emerges more like a crusty punk rocker hell bent on grinding it out like latter...
The new creative outlet for four dudes who paid their dues long ago and remain members of extreme music’s corner of the universe for...
Current and past members of Dragonforce, Slipknot, Seth, Loudblast, Chimaira, Dååth, Mayhem and Aborym walk into a bar...
Halcyon Way will hardly ever been heralded as iconoclastic saviours of prog/power majesty, but there has been enough individuation established here to warrant a...
Thou's three newest EPs flesh the various aspects that encompass their impending full-length album.
It’s comforting to know that the old guard can throw down as hard as, if not harder than, today’s young bucks.
When former Witch Mountain vocalist, Uta Plotkin announced her departure from the band back in 2014, the belief was that the Portland veterans were...
Sad But True – Plagiarism in Heavy Metal Art has quickly become one of my regular stops while browsing around for recent doings and...
The elements which brought Wolvhammer to where they are today remain. A broader scope and sense of adventure has opened up new possibilities.
This Tampere, Finland-based trio work the fine line between old-school death metal and mordant doom like the Wallenda family.
This New Jersey band's debut is much more than a complex piece of rigidly structured virtuosity.
Recently, a New York Times’ tech reporter wrote a piece about spending a couple of months deliberately ignoring the digital news, internet newsfeeds. Time spent...
Previous to Black Heaven, Earthless had its niche and was painted into a comfortable corner. This new album sees a heroic breaking of convention’s...
There’s something grander and expansive happening here. But how much opportunity and potential has been quashed by the band's isolationist stance?
Coma Noir: a stunning example of musical growth, marked progression and fine wine maturity.
Agrimonia has been pushing their brand of outside art form further away from the center of the circle pit for a decade and, on...
“Hearing is for life, wear fucking earplugs at shows”
Originally released in 2003, The Beyond has always stood out in Cult of Luna’s discography as the most direct and immediate of their recordings.
There’s something to be said for spontaneity, capturing the heart and soul of a composition on the fly, not over thinking and simply setting...
Sweet Death and Ecstasy offers a healthy demonstration of Midnight's penchant for writing rebar rigid heavy metal that salutes the rocking past while simultaneously...
The ten tracks on offer span the width and breathe of the Godflesh oeuvre, sounding as rhythmically calculating and drill-press noisy as early works...
The Dusk in Us is album number nine and possesses all the thematic and visual doom ‘n’ gloom as has always been the case,...