Brescia, Italy based death metal quartet Riexhumation make a point of labeling themselves ‘old school’ for the sake […]
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“Wild spires of stone shoot up into the air, barren and clearly defined, in the form (as its […]
The horror of describing the traditions of Italy’s cathedralesque and oft psychedelic brand of prog-adjacent doom metal uprising […]
Columns of fiery pumice, all manner of black volcanic debris ejected as high as the eye can bend […]
The freshly persistent communal psychosis beyond waves of cheap hash and too-sacred LSD that’d been trickling from north-to-south […]
“It isn’t necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: […]
Heed the guru-ājñā, flexing freely with a painterly intuition — Evocation alone is not enough when mental images […]
Restless in limbo between waking hours and sleep, and often with multiple senses alight, the madness of insomnia […]
A multitude of stirred claimant in the destructive torsion of liturgy, a thousand sulfurous candles offer a mere […]
Entrenched deep within the thoroughly bureaucratic system of checks-and-balances experienced in the throes of Duat, facing the second […]
Caste or station in the Sumerian underworld might’ve boiled down to celestial lineage within countless legends yet Ereshkigal’s […]
The loosely defined and decidedly unincorporated afterlife of depressive suicidal black metal had found an unlikely minor star […]
Set high amongst the most vital new voices within the Roman traditional doom metal ecosystem in recent years, […]
The evolution of Italian death metal band Hour of Penance across twenty years and eight albums is marked […]
Shedding an earned layer of stone-like skin by way of those unbound, who’d live free from Chronos’ linearity […]
Too often savant is thrown around in description of ambitious and driven musicians and to the point where […]
A greedy and mercilessly tempered little man who was as round as he was insufferable, the late Cangrande […]
A pox of misanthropic viral ghast spreads entropic cessation among the stars in secret as an atmosphere choked […]
Arisen from bristling enthusiasm that only a teenaged love of thrash metal forms could inspire, the birth of […]
Here I present a random blast of 20 albums from the annuls of 2018. Consider it a penance […]
