My probably blasphemous view on black metal is that it’s best compared to chicken, not fish. That is to say–don’t serve that shit raw. Oh, I know the proud history of this genre of ours, but good production makes it all the better. Still, I’ll try anything twice, so when looking for something to take my mind off of some food poisoning, something described as emotive melodic raw black metal sounded right.
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Lychgate – Precipice Review
Normally, The Goat Review has policies against covering releases from the previous year when the year turns. But hold Anti-Peat’s beer, as he’s been necromanced by Lychgates frightening new machine, that permanently steals your glance once you observe it.
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Unsouling – Outward Streams Of Devotional Woe Review
There are many, many black/death metal bands. There are few of them claiming to incorporate the calm, contemplative somberness of darkwave into that. Can unsealing pull it off, or will Peat get gaslit again?
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This Week In Metal, 2025 Week 39
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 Krigsgrav and Medieval Demon, you can do that too! Pop open a fresh bottle of German bubbly water and enjoy.
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Krigsgrav – Stormcaller Review
“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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Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern Review
2017 was a year of discovery for Cosmo. He learned a lot about himself, grew as a person, but more importantly discovered what would become his favorite black metal band of all time, Der Weg einer Freiheit. And now that DWeF is back? Well, he never really stopped stroking that stiff black metal eggplant of his…
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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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Sigh – I Saw the World’s End (Hangman’s Hymn MMXXV) Review
Did you know that Sigh’s releases continuously aim to spell out S-I-G-H with the first letter? Metalligator knows. And he also knows that even when Sigh calls on a letter from the past, they know how to make it feel like the next letter in the cycle.
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