Standing before a towering gate hewed out of deep blue, calcified liquid, an unknown wanderer treads with compelled […]
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Though they were young and might’ve felt naively misguided by their own tastes during their most formative years, […]
The legacy of Nocturnus‘ ‘The Key’ is a prime example of thoughts in hindsight serving to overcompensate, and […]
A greedy and mercilessly tempered little man who was as round as he was insufferable, the late Cangrande […]
Though it can be difficult to see a past behind the padded, spiked and smeared Wagner name-dropping shoulders of […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Nigh pornographically heightened levels of paganistic pride run through this third album from Meerssen, Netherlands extreme thrashers Bifrost […]
Complex and unfamiliar depths waiting in the midst of ‘easier’ options appear even more daunting once the scab […]
TEN FROM THE TOMB is a weekly feature in the form of a themed list devoted to grouping […]
Consider the thirteen year history of Imperial Triumphant a tale of gentrification. Born in the human meat grinder […]
The promise of symphonic power metal is enough to send me furiously clicking away and diving to unplug […]
Brothers Lord Apollyon and Sirokous have long served as guardians of the exclusive and long-storming graveyard that cradles […]
The earliest rumblings of Italian symphonic black metal band Abhor occurred in tandem with hometown black metal band […]
Formed all the way back in 2006 as a technically ambitious fourth-gen melodic death metal band Nashville, Tennessee […]
Myrholt is the more recent name of now Mosjøen-based Ole Alexander Myrholt‘s solo work as it focuses in on […]
Coming across a band like Northwind Wolves in the midst of chronicling the history of melodic and symphonic […]
This Czech death/doom band’s third full-length finds the project attempting it’s most ambitious and theatrical vision amidst it’s […]
Here I present Part IV of the latest in a series of a comprehensive sub-genre analysis features that I began […]
This side-project of the “Russian version of Summoning” a.k.a. Moongates Guardian is not only far more listenable symphonic […]
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