Meant to be played from top to bottom, Alföld is like a charred sandwich with savory middle, sticking its most intense moments at the bookends while leaving space for the Progressive and Folk aspects of Thy Catafalque’s sound to shine in the middle. Jó étvágyat!
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Kostnatění – Úpal Review
Cosmo has returned after suffering heat stroke and he’ll tell you all about how it made black metal even better.
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Burial Hordes – Ruins Review
A pummeled Cosmo lives to tell the tale of these blackened deadly greeks.
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Inherus – Beholden Review
“In her what-!?” – exclaims a bewildered Gator.
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Profeci – Ubóstwo Review
Cosmo goes exploring Metal Archives and finds black metal he likes. No joke.
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Hasard – Malivore Review
Springing from the rib of the odd opera-with-growls project Les Chants Du Hasard, Hasard takes a more conventional approach of classical infused black metal, as weird as that is to say. The titular musician Hasard is responsible for everything here apart from a great appearance from John Steven Morgan (of Wreche fame) on piano.
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Nightmarer – Deformity Adrift Review
Most Dissonant Death Metal has the unfortunate effect of making Metalligator want to fall asleep but keeping him awake with cutting squeaky noises, this makes for an angry Gatorrr usually. Is it sleepy time? Not so fast.
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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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Gorod – The Orb Review
Riffs are in their essence circular, a series of chords repeated over the course of a piece of music to make it feel more coherent or to carry a theme. On The Orb, Gorod ask themselves the scientific question of “What if the riffs were even MOAR circular?”, maybe even spherical? Get a load of this jawbreaker!
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Crypts of the Unknown: Lorn – Arrayed Claws
