“Stormcaller jumps from genre to genre as the mood takes it, and it is highly impressive how seamless those jumps are”, Anti-Peat jots down in his notebook stained with metal salad and dirt from Texan trenches, wishing someone would just shoot at him through the thick atmosphere.
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Medieval Demon – All Powers of Darkness Review
If there is one thing that has changed about me since first being summoned to the Goat Review ranks, it is an ever deepening fascination with Greek black metal. It should therefore surprise nobody that my first act at the end of our summer break was to claim Medieval Demon. One evil gyro, coming right up.
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Arkhaaik – Uihtis Review
Arkhaaik’s pitch of bronze age hunting metal, complete with lyrics written in Proto-Indo-European, is one that naturally attracts skepticism. Spears up, y’all.
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Fell Omen – Caelid Dog Summer Review
Fell Omen sound like early Iron Maiden got very stoned, broke into a LARP, stole everyone’s gear and caused a giant brawl. Get vigor-checked by Caelid’s annoying giant dogs.
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Trivax – The Great Satan Review
Whatever the reason, Trivax’s The Great Satan was a must check for me. So now we’re here, what’s there to be said about Trivax’s gentle critique of Ayatollah Khomeini’s policies through the medium of equally gentle music?
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For The Pyres – At The Pyres Of Sin Review
Swedish debutants For the Pyres might be 400 km away from the capital but you can instantly hear the inspiration for much of At the Pyres of Sin. Chainsaws and meth.
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Vauruvã – Mar da Deriva Review
There is a beautiful, dreamlike quality to Vauruvã’s take on black metal, yet it is achieved without losing bite. The inclusion of Brazilian folk and progressive passages has Anti-Peat hypnotized and floating around pleasantly in Brazil-occupied space. Come to Brazil with him!
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Skaphos – Cult of Uzura Review
As metal subgenre hybrids go, mixing up black and death metal is one of the most natural and challenging pairings out there. It’s natural in that musicians gravitate towards taking the more extreme genres and blurring the boundaries between them to try and push things further, but therein lies the challenge too. If you do too little, you don’t stand out in a crowded field; do too much and it just becomes over-dense and loses its edge. Anti-Peat might just be telling you to edge into the kraken’s butthole with Skaphos though. Dive in!
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Karg – Marodeur Review
Excursions into screamo have already convinced me that black metal and punk are naturally suited for hybridization, so why not explore further? As ideas go, it makes sense to Karg and it makes sense to Peat.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Blunt Force Trauma – Vengeance for Nothing
