Only for those that like their black metal steak as RAW as it can get.
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Mournful Congregation – The Exuviae of Gods: Part II Review
For a band like Mournful Congregation, whose material is both epic in scope but meticulously crafted, it might be less exhausting and frankly more realistic to produce two interconnected EP’s. The challenge is that, by connecting the two EP’s thematically, the same has to be done musically. Are The Exuviae of Gods: Part I & II individual stories, or do they form a cohesive whole? Find out in this review…
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Inferion – Inequity Review
If you’re going to viking, you actually have to be a viking.
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Vexing – Grand Reproach Review
Come, read about Scuttlegoat’s grand reproach of Vexings new album.
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Tardigrade Inferno – Arrival of a Train Review
Scuttlegoat opens an avant-garde box only to be ambushed by nu-metal.
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Ethereal Void – Gods of a Dead World Review
To pose or not to pose, that is the question Ethereal Void makes our Scuttlegoat grapple with.
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Sarmat – Dubious Disk Review
Dubious Disk is a curious case of an EP. A lot of what I read in the blurb I find hard to believe and in revisiting this album multiple times, more and more surprising things came to light. So, did our Goat solve this EP’s mystery?
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Infecting the Swarm – Pulsing Coalescence Review
Infecting the Swarm claims to make music for fans of Disentomb, Defeated Sanity and Euphoric Defilement. Neither Disentomb nor Defeated Sanity comparisons apply fully. Rather, I feel the best comparison is likely Spain’s Wormed, whose dissonant, almost machine-like Brutal Death Metal approaches texture in a Brutal Death Metal context similarly to how Infecting the Swarm do it.
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The Infinity Ring – Nemesis & Nativity Review
Somehow, even though Nemesis & Nativity includes Post-rock, Sludge, Gothic Americana and Drone sections, it pertains a sense of narrative throughout it. Even though tracks end, there is few opportunities to opt out of the album – you would not want to, anyway. To Infinity Ring and BEYOND!
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Crypts of the Unknown: Animosity – Animal
