Citizen - As You Please Rating: 9/10 You can stream the album in full on Youtube. I’m just gonna say it: Everybody is Going to Heaven was better than Youth. While Youth was a good record, its follow-up was a significantly darker and more m…
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Citizen - As You Please Rating: 9/10 You can stream the album in full on Youtube. I’m just gonna say it: Everybody is Going to Heaven was better than Youth. While Youth was a good record, its follow-up was a significantly darker and more m…
Cradle of Filth - Cryptoriana - The Seductiveness of DecayRating: 7.9/10 Cradle of Filth was always Dani Filth’s baby, if his stage name wasn’t a giveaway. He is the band’s figurehead, its ringmaster, and its center; the single constant th…
Counterparts - You’re Not You AnymoreRating: 9.5/10Stream the album in full on Youtube. I’d say that it’s about time Counterparts received some attention outside of the scene of stale “melodic hardcore” wave of bands that took considerable…
Belphegor - TotenritualRating: 7.6/10 With each record since 2006’s Pestapokalypse VI, Belphegor seem to have overstayed their welcome by another increment. They’re the sort of blackened death metal band that pours the Satan on too thick t…
Helpless - DebtRating: 8.5/10Listen and purchase on their Bandcamp In a year that’s seen them set aflame and defaced, what’s another disfigured nun on the cover of a tough-as-fuck metal record? I came across Helpless and Debt by chance in…
Gigan - Undulating Waves of Rainbiotic IridescenceRating: 9/10Listen and purchase on their Bandcamp Another Gigan album, another deep-dive into Gorgutsian mindfuckery. The first couple minutes of “Wade Forward Through Matter and Backwards…
Stray From The Path - Only Death Is RealRating: 5/10 You can trace the moment Stray From the Path’s decline began back to “iMember” from arguably their last widely-respected album, Rising Sun. It’s not a standout song on the album, nor is…
END - From the Unforgiving Arms of GodRating: 8.5/10 “Word of mouth” doesn’t quite mean in the internet age what it used to, as the rise of social media and instant sharing, as well as the prevalence of forum sites like Reddit, have change…
Prologues - Peaceruiner”Rating: 7/10Listen to and download the EP here. Three years ago, two kids from Torrington, Connecticut left a music project called Aske to pursue musical endeavors outside of the internet world. Brandon Antoniak and…
Akercocke - Renaissance in ExtremisRating: 9/10 It doesn’t feel right to call Renaissance in Extremis a comeback record. It’s been a decade since we last heard from Akercocke on 2007’s Antichrist, a relatively experimental entry in their d…