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The Flenser & Friends Announce Your Voice Is Not Enough – A Tribute to Low

Your Voice is Not Enough stands as a heartfelt tribute to Low, a project born out of a conversation with Planning For Burial’s Thom Wasluck and The Flenser. Inspired by the nuanced beauty of Low’s discography, what began as a discussion on ranking favorite albums blossomed into a collaborative effort that brought together our close-knit group of Flenser artists and friends. Regrettably, the compilation took shape before the tragic passing of Mimi Parker, and in honoring her legacy, we dedicate this album to her memory, celebrating the profound impact she left on the music world. The tribute features eight cover […]

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Album Review: Plaguemace – Reptilian Warlords

In case you just woke up after being asleep for 10 years, death metal is a big deal again. Really. We are in the second great age of the gnarly subgenre and it is arguably producing more material than the first wave in the early ’90s. With this windfall, though, there are obviously good bands….and just as obviously bands that are bandwagon jumpers and also-rans. PLAGUEMACE is part of this second wave. Where do they fall on the spectrum of worthless to godlike? Well, it’s somewhere in the middle part….the lower middle part. This bunch hails for Denmark, which is […]

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GREY SKIES FALLEN: New York Doom Metal Act Signs With Profound Lore Records For March Release Of Molded By Broken Hands LP; ‘Knowing That You’re There’ Video/Single And Preorders Issued

Profound Lore Records announces the label’s first release of 2024, welcoming long-running New York City-based doomed dark metal veterans GREY SKIES FALLEN. The band’s first release for the label, Molded By Broken Hands, will be released March 8th, and today, a video for the lead single ‘Knowing That You’re There’ has been issued alongside preorders and more. GREY SKIES FALLEN’s sixth full-length album, Molded By Broken Hands sees the contingent offering their most triumphant work yet. This album carries that feeling of the underappreciated and underrated dark metal scene that was culminating in the US during the late 1990s, an […]

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Album Review: ÚLFARR – Orlegsceaft

Ever get tired of the lyrics of your favorite black metal bands being written in some obscure “eldritch” dialect that with a short visit to Google Translate becomes known as modern Norse or High German? Do you see Chaucer as a false for using Middle English in Canterbury Tales? Feel like Cascadian black metal’s “alright if you like that sort of thing”, but long for something evoking your eldritch and Cumbrian ancestral home? Behealdan ÚLFARR! Birthed and guided by founder Dominus (aka Hfran), in 2011, ÚLFARR has unchained new material regularly since, yet Orlegsceaft be its first march into the […]

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Inver unveil the dark gothic metal magick of On This Earth

Bringing together a wealth of experience and influences from the disparate musical worlds of extreme metal, alternative acoustic and traditional folk, Inver have created a musical identity rich in atmosphere, emotion and imagination. Coupled with a song writing ethic that embraces and entwines artistry and integrity, dreamlike textures and honesty as raw as an open wound, this new creative collective have unveiled a unique and enthralling debut album…On This Earth. Behold the visualizer for ‘Tarnished Son’ On This Earth reaches into the soul of gothic metal and rock, grasping the essential darkness and emotional power that drives the genre and […]

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Album Review: Vemod – The Deepening

Time. It does what it does. It marches, onward and steady, each of us warring against or accepting, but still at its grim behest and beneath its law. Art – for those who create such – is a means to capture a moment or period from Time and leave a mark. “I was here.” “This is how I saw the world or myself.” When we rush to make that statement, that claim, it can be done poorly, or not fully thought through, yet it remains in the universe, the half-work of a creator who couldn’t comprehend what they were experiencing. […]

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NATHANAEL LAROCHETTE: Musk Ox/The Night Watch Guitarist Releases Five-Part Skyward Composition

Musk Ox/The Night Watch guitarist NATHANAEL LAROCHETTE has officially unveiled Skyward, the complete, unedited mix of Sky from LAROCHETTE’s stunning 2016-released double solo album, Earth And Sky. Comprised of two distinct yet complementary albums, Earth was a collection of solo classical guitar works which acted as the stark acoustic counterpart to Sky, a layered, forty-minute ambient electric composition. LAROCHETTE elaborates, “Originally commissioned for an app designed to accompany commuters on specific Ottawa public transit bus routes, Skyward represents the complete, unedited composition that was later remixed and released as disc two of Earth And Sky back in 2016. When I […]

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TODAY IS THE DAY To Reissue Classic Supernova And Today Is The Day LPs On SuperNova Records In January; Teaser And Preorders Posted + New Album Nears Completion

SuperNova Records presents brand new vinyl reissues of TODAY IS THE DAY’s seminal LPs Supernova and Today Is The Day, confirming them for release in early February. Following the release of their acclaimed No Good To Anyone LP, released through BMG in February of 2020, TODAY IS THE DAY founder Steve Austin used the downtime of the COVID-19 lockdowns to secure the rights to every one of the band’s albums, relaunching his SuperNova Records label. With the entire catalog now under one roof, the label reissued the band’s entire back-catalog digitally and began rolling out additional TODAY IS THE DAY […]

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Swim Or Drown – Trapped [7″]

There’s just something special about hardcore/punk from Scandinavia and the surrounding area, from the legendary kangpunk/d-beat sound of Sweden to the somewhat more technical yet still as powerful Swiss and Dutch scenes, the latter of which SWIM OR DROWN is a part. The title track of this 7” barnburner slams back and forth between ALL OUT WAR hardcore and FREYA metallic bursts, each style coming across as legitimate, no shred of gimmickry to be found. The gem for me here is ‘Human Scum’, a raging early INTEGRITY-styled diatribe with razor-sharp guitars and a boiling bottom end, scarred vocals spewing justice […]

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OBSIDIAN TONGUE: Maine Black Metal Duo Formed By Members Of Shabti And Falls Of Rauros Presents The Stone Heart EP; Decibel Magazine Debuts Video For Track Featuring Obsequiae’s Tanner Anderson

Portland, Maine-based atmospheric black metal outfit OBSIDIAN TONGUE presents their most epic work to date, with their new EP, The Stone Heart. Alongside the record’s cover art, track listing, preorders, and other details, an official video for its stunning title track, which features an otherworldly guest vocal appearance from Tanner Anderson of Obsequiae and Majesties, has been premiered exclusively through Decibel Magazine. OBSIDIAN TONGUE was formed by Brendan Hayter (Shabti, Thrawsunblat, Obsequiae-live) who was shortly later joined by drummer Ray Capizzo (Falls Of Rauros, Shabti, Panopticon-live), emerging as a live act in 2009. The band’s emotive brand of epic and […]

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