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Album Review: CONTRITION – Broken Mortal Coil

Sometimes I miss the days of buying albums blind because you had no choice, when often the only way you had of knowing who was in a new band was if there’d been a magazine article you stumbled across or the most reliable way, word of mouth. Looking at the lineup of Chicago’s CONTRITION, the now-familiar “current and former members of” tagline bearing such as NOVEMBERS DOOM, NACHTMYSTIUM, COBALT, YAKUZA and so forth, you almost feel set up for a fall. Can such a strange blend deliver? Haphazard, grotty and sordid in that basest, best of ways, ‘Diluted’ is unconcerned […]

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PLUM GREEN: Melbourne-Based Ambient Dream Folk Conjuror Unveils Chilling ‘Raspberry Vine’ Video Via The Spill, Somnambulistic Full-Length Out Now On Nefarious Industrious

Melbourne-based ambient dream folk conjuror PLUM GREEN has unveiled her latest in a series of stunning video clips with ‘Raspberry Vine’. Now playing at The Spill Magazine, the tracks comes off of her enchanting Somnambulistic full-length, released earlier this Fall via Nefarious Industries. Somnambulistic is a rousing collection of dark lullabies. Each of its nine stirring tracks ebb and flow with otherworldly grace manifesting one pulsing dream narrative. Guided by guitar, PLUM GREEN’s voice travels through walls of bowed soundscapes. Offers GREEN of the latest track, “A stranger lures you into the forest, following the wraith deeper and deeper until […]

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Album Review: Thyrfing – Vanagandr

My first exposure to THYRFING was around 2008 with Farsotstider. I loved it, but since then I had not delved too deeply, a song here and there. Vanagandr is my first full album since, and it was as much of an experience now as it was then. Vanagandr starts off hard hitting, as any Viking metal album should, with those sick riffs, choirs of Valkyries, and then those Viking blackened growls. ‘Dop dem I eld’ is the opener well chosen, the storm before the calm before the even bigger storm. Those headbanging riffs and backing keys will have you headbanging […]

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REDEMPTOR: Polish Death Metal Band With Current/Ex-Members Of Decapitated, Vader, Hate, Banisher, And More To Release Agonia Through Selfmadegod Records; ‘Potion Of The Skies’ Video Playing

Selfmadegod Records presents Agonia, the destructive new album from Krakow, Poland-based death metal outfit REDEMPTOR – uniting current and former members of Decapitated, Vader, Hate, Sceptic, Sothoth, Banisher, Deivos, and more – now confirmed for early December release. The album’s cover art, track listing, preorders, and more have been issued, including a video for the lead single, ‘Potion Of The Skies’. REDEMPTOR is back with their first new full-length in four years, the successor to their well-received Arthaneum album. Agonia delivers nine new tracks of technical, heavy, and atmospheric death metal heavily influenced by Gorguts, Morbid Angel, Immolation, and Death. […]

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Album Review: HATE – Rugia

Poland’s HATE has been at it for over three decades now, in many incarnations, but always helmed by Adam “The First Sinner” Buszko, so, to put it bluntly, the praise or blame has always rested on his shoulders when it comes to the quality of the death/black outfit. For myself, HATE has sort of just been “there”, no great opinion one way or the other, in that I can see why someone may enjoy it, but I’ve also never been in the mood for the band specifically. Featuring a new rhythm section (again), and joined once more by Domin, who’s […]

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THY WORSHIPER return with Bajki o Staruchu

Originating from Poland, Dublin-based pagan black folk metal act THY WORSHIPER will release their fifth studio album Bajki o Staruchu (translates to “Fairytales About An Old Man” from Polish) via Pagan Records on 17 November 2021. Ahead of the album’s release, a music video to the track ‘Baba Jaga’ is available to watch at the locations below: Nine Circles (USA) Musick Magazine (PL) Friedhof Magazine (ESP) Rocking (GR) Coming six years after the release of Klechdy, Bajki o Staruchu is a concept with eight new tracks based on fairy tales that are held together by the main character of the […]

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Album Review: KK’S Priest – Sermons Of The Sinner

I probably don’t need to go over K.K. Downing’s history for anybody reading this review. Chances are you know just as much as I do, although it’s worth noting that K.K.’s history with JUDAS PRIEST goes all the way back to 1969. I’m sure you also know that, with Glenn Tipton, he was part of the guitar duo that revolutionized the concept of heavy metal and set the bar for just about every other band in the genre. It’s already been 10 years since Ken left PRIEST. I’d imagine the metal fire has been smoldering in him for most of […]

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Seattle Death Grinders RAT KING Releasing Santa Hipocresía EP December 10

Seattle (WA) – Seattle Death/Grind vermin RAT KING return with a new EP, Santa Hipocresía (translation: Holy Hypocrisy), December 10 on digital and cassette formats via Within The Mind Records. The official video for album track ‘False Prophet’ is available at THIS LOCATION Following up their 2020 full-length album Vicious Inhumanity, the new EP sees the band continue down the path of breakneck speed and death in delivery of its unique brand of death metal and grindcore. For fans of Napalm Death, Hypocrisy, Morbid Angel, Sepultura. Pre-order (cassette/digital) HERE Track Listing: SANTA HIPOCRESÍA MALDICIÓN DEL ALMA FALSE PROPHET MORBOSO KILLING […]

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Album Review: Wormwitch – Wolf Hex

WORMWITCH has been at it awhile, and now returns for the all-important third album. Reviews have been kind to the Vancouver quartet thus far, so all that remains is the question “Did the band deliver?”. After the intro of ‘Lunar Maniac’ wanders about aimlessly for 1:00 (as most intros are wont to do), the laughably-titled ‘Canadian Denim Mountain Attack’, which manages in one clumsy, fell swoop to poorly appropriate both DARKTHRONE’s ‘Canadian Metal’ and ‘Hiking Metal Punks’, both of which leave a bag of reindeer shit on WORMWITCH’s suburbanite doorstep. And if you thought the song was any better, it’s […]

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SVARTSOT signs to Mighty Music, New album in 2022

Although it is now quite a while since SVARTSOT has released new material, the band is still very much alive and kicking. In the interim since 2015’s Vældet, the beer-soaked folk metallers have been active on the live scene in Denmark and abroad, including appearances at various major festivals as well as at the prestigious 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise in 2019. After a change of bassist and the decision to shelve an album’s worth of material in 2017/18, the idea of releasing a collection of traditional folk songs that have inspired the band, reworked in SVARTSOT’s characteristic style, was […]

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