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Album Review: Kommand – Death Age

‘Final Virus’ begins, grinding and grisly, that punishing, brutal lurch forward of conflict that all humans have endured since Cain walloped his brother, Abel, with a rock. All the marks are ticked when it comes to influences, and we’ll shoot out a few of them here – BOLT THROWER, HERESIARCH, albeit not as unhinged overall, MALEVOLENT CREATION – but this isn’t some slinging against the wall in hopes a shred of legitimacy sticks. The stringed soldiers keep their tone so blasted low for the most part it’s hard to tell which is which outside of the solos, but it fits […]

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MIDNIGHT: Tickets For The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour 2023 On Sale Now

Cleveland blackened thrash punks MIDNIGHT are celebrating twenty years of sonic debauchery with a massive North American tour later this Spring! Support on The 20 Years Of Hell, Speed, And Sleaze USA Tour will be provided by Spirit Adrift and Spiter from May 1st through May 20th, then Early Moods and Necrofier from June 1st through June 16th. Tickets are on sale now. See all confirmed dates below. MIDNIGHT w/ Spirit Adrift, Spiter: 5/01/2023 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI 5/02/2023 Mag Bar – Louisville, KY 5/03/2023 The Radio Room – Greenville, SC 5/05/2023 Underbelly – Jacksonville, FL 5/06/2023 […]

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Album Review: Downfall Of Gaia – Silhouettes Of Disgust

Even though Germany’s DOWNFALL OF GAIA have been around for 15 years, this record is my first actual encounter with them. I could have dived into their previous output as research for this here review, but I thought I would go into this from zero. Everything about the band is new to me and I feel my missive should reflect that. This is a hodgepodge of sounds ranging from very fast and aggressive “semi-black” metal to drifting post metal drones to screaming modern hardcore a la CONVERGENCE. It’s all whipped together and sometimes winds up sounding pretty choppy. For example, […]

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MARGARITA WITCH CULT: new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ streaming

UK doom rockers MARGARITA WITCH CULT present an intoxicatingly heavy second video taken from their awaited self-titled debut album, to be released on April 21st through Heavy Psych Sounds. About new single ‘The Witchfinder Comes’, the band comments: “A macabre tale of an impending witch hunt climaxing with the subject running in fear over the spiraling coda. The slab of bludgeoning ’70s style proto-metal is a stadium-sized version of the song which first appeared on the band’s demo cassette which brought the band to the public eye in 2022.” Watch new video ‘The Witchfinder Comes’ on The Sleeping Shaman Get […]

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Album Review: Oak – Disintegrate

Proving itself not only competent but comfortable in crafting longer songs with its debut, Lone, Portugal’s OAK returns with a single-track album, Disintegrate. CATHEDRAL wisely sidestepped the opportunity to do so when the disco doomlords “could’ve”, SLEEP blows minds and bong rips to this day courtesy of Dopesmoker (or Jerusalem, if you prefer), so it only remains to be heard if OAK “should’ve”. The opening track (also the closing track) begins with the feel of a soundtrack to a nature documentary or possibly of a community living destitute, separated by class, by creed, or by its own decision. Nothing is […]

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Morrison Graves streaming forthcoming debut Division Rising via CvltNation and Bandcamp

Hear/share the full Division Rising album via Bandcamp or CvltNation Portland, OR band MORRISON GRAVES are streaming their forthcoming debut album Division Rising in full via CvltNation. MORRISON GRAVES is a psychedelic rock project from Oregon, USA. Their moody, fuzzed-out, sound draws influences from late 60’s fuzz and garage, surf, psychedelia, and indie rock. But they infuse these atavistic leanings with heavy saturated guitars and metalgaze drone reminiscent of Black Angels and Dead Meadow. Meanwhile, vocalist Ryan Brown croons over the proceedings like a young Jim Morrison or early Mark Lanegan’s tuneful wail in Screaming Trees. The group features multi-instrumentalist […]

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Album Review: Austin Walkin’ Cane – Muscle Shoals

In the interest of forthrightness, yours truly spent some of the crappiest years of his life in the Shoals area of Alabama. A metal/punk kid coming up in the mid-‘80s had little chance of finding anything like a “group” of friends, hated my school, blah blah, the whole nine yards. So I dove headlong into books…and music. Thanks to an older skater my interest in truly different music was kindled and set to blaze, and a couple dudes who worked at the local record store became my rabbis, guiding me through a veritable Library Of Alexandria of music. All that […]

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TENHI announce new album and release lyric video

From a decade of twilight, Finnish dark folk ensemble TENHI return to the light with a lyric video for the new track ‘Saattue’ as the first single taken from their forthcoming album, Valkama, which has been slated for release on June 9, 2023. WATCH ‘Saattue’ PRE-ORDER Valkama On further news, parallel to the release of Valkama on June 9, 2023, TENHI will also make a limited hardcover slipcase box available under the title Collected Works 2023. The box will contain all TENHI recordings from 1997 to 2023 on 14 vinyl LPs, which are for most part remastered and include Valkama […]

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Album Review: Gatekeeper – From Western Shores

GATEKEEPER returns after five years between albums, hopefully bolstered by new blood, with From Western Shores. Sure, debut East Of Sun (itself released nearly 5 years after the band’s initial 2013 demo) was solid “enough”, but if a power/epic metal band isn’t truly epic – if I don’t end up leaping about the Citadel fending off hordes, carousing with fairy maidens and raising my battle axe high whilst standing victorious atop a pile of my enemy’s vanquished – then I tend not to revisit the album too often if at all, and it lies forgotten. To be honest, I’m a […]

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OBSEQUIAE Releases Multi-Camera Video Of Entire Fire In The Mountains Fest Performance

Medieval/melodic black metal collective OBSEQUIAE presents a new video of their epic performance at last year’s gathering of the annual Fire In The Mountains Fest. OBSEQUIAE’s Fire In The Mountains performance took place July 24th, 2022, at Heart Six Ranch in Moran, Wyoming on the lands of the Newe Sogobia (Eastern Shoshone), Cayuse, Umatilla, Walla Walla, Shoshone-Bannock, Tséstho’e (Cheyenne), Arapaho, Titunwan Lakota, and Crow. OBSEQUIAE shared the stage with Wolves In The Throne Room, Yob, Steve Von Till, Eternal Champion, Hexvessel, Emma Ruth Rundle, and many others at the gathering, and the band’s six-member lineup featured primary studio members – […]

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