Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Vacant Moley, Diabolizer, Morbific, and Karg, you can do that too!
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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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Morbific – Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh Review
Morbific deliver exactly what their aesthetic promises: nasty, groovy death metal perfect for foul moods. Their album Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh immediately establishes its territory with a warm, yet distinctly wet sound. Morbific by name, with one foot and a blast beat into the grave.
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Diabolizer – Murderous Revelations Review
Turkey’s extreme metal scene consistently yields potent acts, and Diabolizer stand as a prime example. Following their impressive debut, Khalkedonian Death, the band returns with Murderous Revelations, an album delivering relentless, high-octane death metal. From the outset, the music grabs the listener with its sheer intensity.
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Vacant Moley – The Programmed Obsolescence of Your Kind Review
Dripping has not done much since the cult release Disintegration of Thought Patterns During a Synthetic Mind Traveling Bliss, although a single released just last year might suggest that more new music is on the horizon — a beautiful side effect of the internet age is that cult classics can be revived and live on. The musicians have not been lazy, either way. Or rather, Ed Morris, a relatively new addition to Dripping who now seems to be one of its main creative forces, has not. Vacant Moley is a solo project by Morris that, in any way but name, just seems like more Dripping. Glaze us, weirdo slam daddy.
Read moreThis Week In Metal, 2025 Week 18
Another week, another round of Lhaäds, Lhaäd, Lhaäd, Lhaäd, LHAÄD, Lhaäd, Lhaäd, Lhaäd! And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Lhaäd, and Lhaä—nah just kidding, Dawn of Solace, you can do that too!
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Dawn of Solace – Affliction Vortex Review
Our Gator went into Affliction Vortex already side-eyeing it, having basically written it off before even hitting play. And yet Saukkonen’s melodic wizardry pulled him right back in. Again. Is this musical Stockholm syndrome?
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This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 17
Another week, another round of metal reviews in the bag. Words are tough, so we assembled the highlights. And if you want to read the latest reviews for the new offerings from Messa, Ritual Ascension, Contemplation, and Belnejoum, you can do that too! Flavors of death and dooooom!
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Crypts of the Unknown: Capilla Ardiente – The Siege
