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Längtan continues the story of Tro (that is, it continues the story of the story that Tro is based on) and Lamašhtu apply their skillful rendition of progressive and symphonic metal to its telling.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19614
Japan's Sabbat were once on the cutting edge of blackened thrash; after all this time, they haven't lost their speed, but the sound is no longer as innovative.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19605
Opus Daemoniacal (which has at least two letters too many and is not properly declined, I can tell you that) is less Limbonic Art and more Limbonic Regular Black Metal.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19591
Fossil Gardens - or graveyards, as we usually call them - are a nice place to set up shop and chill with Hail Spirit Noir. They're back in black (metal), but they still don't sound like anyone else, even their old selves.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19613
Ulcerate are one of the most feared entities in extreme metal. Few bands can create the same sense of impending obliteration that Cutting the Throat of God perpetuates.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19590
Mr. Big are able to exit on their own terms, but they used to be a lot bigger.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19589
Infinite Evolution represents quite the opposite (it's a thrash album, you know); Blood Feast will leave feeling unsated.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19588
Sear Bliss create a sound that's downright heavenly out of black metal fused with synths and trombone.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19587
Alcest aren't necessarily doing anything out of the ordinary on Les Chants de L'Aurore, but Radu still struggles to get excited in the same way as before.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19599
The latest edition of Clandestine Cuts features music by Slow Goat, Slashed To Bits, Kōya, Moon Reaper UK, Aesit, and Skogsgravar.
Article by nikarg, musclassia, Starvynth, Nejde, F3ynman, and AndyMetalFreak
Portrait have had success recapitulating King Diamond for years now, but sometimes all they can offer is a portrait and not the real thing.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19581
Inherits The Void also inherits the best of '90s melodic black metal and turns it around with the best of its three albums thus far.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19578
Abattoir has been doing his concert hunt for how many years now and he's only just gotten to Seventh Station? The first six must have taken ages.
Article by Abattoir
Writhe with Wraith and end up like that dude on the cover: violently exploded. (compliment)
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19583
Dödsrit trade their punk trappings for a folk-informed approach to black metal. It's a bit of an odd maneuver, but one that pays off very well.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19580
Julie Christmas has been out of the studio for a while, but not out of our minds. Now that Christmas has come early/late, let's see what overpowering sounds await.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19579
Whatever this Burden is, REZN shoulder it pretty well, just like usual.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19574
Humans evolved from apes, created civilization, then had a look around and decided that it was all bu****it. Then we turned back into APES. Life is nasty, brutish, and short again, but it's pretty sick.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19563
Kvaen are good at what they do. The one potential issue is that a lot of other people are good at what Kvaen do, too.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19566
The May edition of our nonmetal series features music by Rope Sect, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Marjana Semkina, St. Vincent, and others.
Article by RaduP, musclassia, and F3ynman
After several lineup changes, Oubliette are still coming out on top - perhaps their toppest yet.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19562
Crypt Sermon emerge from their mausoleum to deliver another homily - one more pillar of modern doom emerge from their mausoleum to deliver another homily - one more pillar of modern doom.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19561
All the genres of metal best suited for expressing grandeur find themselves within the thrall of Lord Goblin.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19560
Radu is not known as a proggy power guy, but even he's drawn in by SUNBURST.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19559
Vale of Pnath have a lot of shared membership with Abigail Williams by now. That's just a point of interest, as it doesn't necessarily inform the sound of Between the Worlds of Life and Death, but Vale of Pnath is certainly changing nonetheless.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19558
Eidola take a swing at djent with Eviscerate. Unfortunately, it is not as interesting as musclassia's decision to coin the term "djentrification".
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19557
Coagulating is something that bliss is not really supposed to do. Coagulated Bliss is something that Full of Hell is not really supposed to do.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19549
Fire up those mustaches, because Fu Manchu are back and they've brought tomorrow with them.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19548
Fellwarden have written the stuff of legend into the stuff of Legend.
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19543
Alienation Manifesto is perhaps still at the manifesto stage and not at the glorious revolution stage, but it's apparent that Thanatotherion is capable of getting as gnarly as the creature on the cover (is that the Voidhanger from I, Voidhanger?).
https://metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=19547
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