Experimentation is abundant in the extreme bounds of metal today. While a lot of bands look for something worthwhile by trying odd techniques, it’s easy to lose sight of working on a defining sound, something that makes a band have that special pull divorced from just pure technique. Aseitas had that from the start. But it’s been a long, trough road for them.
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 34
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 Stress Angel and Void Witch, you can do that too! It’s International Bear Appreciation week here at Goat Review.
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Void Witch – Horripilating Presence
As he ages, Bobo finds himself drawn to death/doom music, much like an older bear preferring scavenging over chasing prey. He enjoys watching it slowly die, whether it’s a fresh corpse or a decomposed cadaver. Though he usually prefers the latter, Void Witch caught him hungry enough to listen to their final pleas. How quickly will he tear them apart?
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Savatage – A Retrospective
Are you ready to enter the hall of the mountain king with the fearless Scuttlegoat? Our brave Caprine Captain has decided that the world needs to know everything and then some about Savatage. Aaaaaah!!
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Stress Angel – Punished by Nemesis Review
The death metal chugging bear has decided to stay at Goat Review, Welcome to our new writer Bobo Dupla! There’s so much death metal to devour and so little time, next in line is Punished by Nemesis by Stress Angel.
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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 Mayhemic, Vanessa Funke, and Monument of Misanthropy, you can do that too!
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Monument of Misanthropy – Vile Postmortem Irrumatio Review
I don’t know where my fascination with serial killer themed metal comes from. Sure, I had a phase where I was reading up on them obsessively as a teen, before serial killers became an interest of primarily middle aged moms and I became ashamed admitting it. Join Scuttlegoat as he reignites his titillation for Monument of Middle Aged Mom’s!
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Vanessa Funke – Void Review
Funke writes and writes. It almost makes the album name Void quite ironic as that’s the opposite of her discography. However, it is an apt fit for the melancholic tone she often adopts for her work. Last time around I wanted more of that bleak, sad goodness in Funke’s work. Will she fill that Void?
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Mayhemic – Toba Review
In yet another tale of a metal subgenre rapidly stagnating, blackened thrash finds itself needing revitalizing. But where there’s a riff, there’s a way.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Lorn – Arrayed Claws
