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TEMPTRESS To Support DESTROYER OF LIGHT On Seeing Through The Panic 2023 Tour

Texas’ heavy trio known as TEMPTRESS is preparing to embark on the spring US tour supporting the melodic doom metal outfit Destroyer Of Light. Running throughout March and April 2023, the Seeing Through The Panic tour will unleash an onslaught of gloomy atmospheres and immersive performances. “We’ve been around this part of the country once before and are ready to reunite with some old friends, and make some new friends along the way!” “Stoked to be sharing the stage with our friends and brothers in DESTROYER OF LIGHT, we’ll both be promoting our new albums, its gonna be a lot […]

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Album Review: SANGUISUGABOGG – Homicidal Ecstasy

After the four song Pornographic Stench demo of 2019, SANGUISUGABOGG got snapped up double-quick by Century Media, parlaying the “weirdness” of their name and logo (self-described as “the Nike swoosh of death metal” by gurgler Devin Swank) into what seems to be the next “it” band in metal. ‘Black Market Vasectomy’ kicks things off, or tries to, at least. I shouldn’t enjoy Cody Davidson’s coffee can drums, but for some reason I am, but that could be because they’re mixed so far to the front that the guitars sound like they’re in a room down the hall somewhere, likely jerking […]

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HANGING GARDEN: ‘The Fireside’ Music Video

Finnish melodic death/doom/gothic metallers HANGING GARDEN are premiering a music video for the second song to be revealed off the band’s upcoming album, The Garden, set for release on March 24th via Agonia Records. Listen to ‘The Fireside’ and watch the video HERE HANGING GARDEN formed in 2004, starting out as a heavy, doom-oriented project. Roughly two decades, seven albums and a couple of line-up shuffles later, the band shifted to a more melodic, contemporary sound, surrounded by a veil of melancholy. The compositions are dark, atmospheric & emotional, and concomitantly lean towards open-minded and playful musicality. While entrenched in […]

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Album Review: Hate Forest – Innermost

It cannot be a coincidence that this promo comes across my desk on a day with lethal -40 degree temperatures and blowing snow. I can’t imagine a better accompaniment to such death-dealing cold than the latest output from Roman Saenko, also of DRUDKH, BLOOD OF KINGU and WINDSWEPT fame. This is black metal cold and bleak enough to cause frostbite. It has the sort of straightforward purity that all of Saenko’s projects have. Saenko also hails from Ukraine. Innermost was written and recorded in December of 2021, as clouds of war were hovering over his homeland. A war that was […]

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ANTHEM To Release Crimson & Jet Black Full-Length On April 21st Via Reaper Entertainment; First Video/Single Available

Leading Japanese heavy metal act, ANTHEM, will release their brand-new studio album, Crimson & Jet Black, via Reaper Entertainment on April 21st, today unveiling the record’s artwork, track listing, and first single. It’s been four years since the release of the band’s critically acclaimed Nucleus full-length – a re-recording of their classic hits with English lyrics. But ANTHEM used the pandemic downtime wisely. Crimson & Jet Black features eleven tracks, once again performed in English. Comments bassist Naoto Shibata of the band’s first single, ‘Wheels Of Fire’, “Obviously this is the most heavy metal album I have ever made. Experience […]

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Album Review: Eyes – Congratulations

‘Generation L’ swings like anvils suspended on chains one moment, drops them onto your facebone the next. No easy ride up the incline on this rollercoaster, just a yank up and plummet down over and over again of which SWARM OF THE LOTUS and FISTULA would be proud. EYES has always had a pocketful of noise rock influence, and it jiggers and jerks in ‘IT’S HAPPENING’, while ‘Congratulations!’ is a speedster anthem ala ZEKE, but with grooves like XYSMA’s post-grind output or KRUGER. Sure, second paragraph and already we’ve mentioned five bands EYES brings to mind, but this should speak […]

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Chat Pile’s ‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ Gets B-Movie Treatment in New Music Video

As CHAT PILE prepare for their upcoming sold out tour with Lingua Ignota in February, the band have released a new music video for God’s Country standout track, ‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ Of the song, the band comments, “‘Tropical Beaches, Inc.’ is a favorite among the band, and probably the song that’s the most fun to play live. It has some of the dumbest riffs on the whole album and we gleefully lose a couple brain cells every time we play it.” They continue, “The song itself is about the poisonous quest for endless wealth and status in America as seen […]

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Album Review: Bizarrekult – Den Tapte Krigen

It’s good to be right once in a while. Wasting no time, ‘Du Lovet Meg’ (‘You Promised Me’) moves forward confidently, blast beats and treble-based riffing engaged, yet just as assured drops into a near-BLACKFIELD / GREEN CARNATION dream of ether, combining both aspects throughout, and it’s clear the nearly two years between this album and Vi Overlevde have served BIZARREKULT extremely well. ‘Den Tapte Krigen’ (‘The Lost War’) canters at a mid-pace for the most part, not as obviously spacious as what’s come before, elements of German avant-gardists PORTA NIGRA being conjured, ‘Hvis Jeg Bare Kunne…’ (‘If I Could […]

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TREEDEON: Berlin-Based Sludge Metal/Noise Rock Trio To Release Third LP, New World Hoarder, Through Exile On Mainstream Records In March

Five years in the making, Berlin, Germany-based sludge/noise stalwarts TREEDEON are preparing to release their third album, New World Hoarder, through their allies at Exile On Mainstream, who today issue the record’s cover art, track listing, preorders, and a brief teaser. New World Hoarder delivers six new tracks pushing the boundaries of heaviness and urgency. While its predecessor Under The Manchineel was a bristly beast of dark and thunderous swill pounding monstrous riffs and bleak lyrics mostly into the area underneath your chest, the new effort cuts higher, right at the heart and brain, although no less heavy. The five […]

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Album Review: Deiquisitor – Apotheosis

Danish death vendors DEIQUISITOR have been at it for a decade now, generating reliable, convoluted albums and EPs, Apotheosis being the fourth of the former. With the self-titled debut of 2016 (drool and gnash your teeth at ‘Elongated Crystal Skull’ for reference), it seemed there was something just strange enough about the trio’s take on death metal to bear keeping an eye on, and thus far no disappointments. Jointly released by Extremely Rotten Productions and Night Shroud Records, Apotheosis takes aim with ‘Humanoid’, a distended, twisting riff straight out of Stockholm circa 1989 hits its mark, drummer Henrik B.C. seemingly […]

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