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HØLLS – ILL

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025 Reviewed by Inksterium No comments

Inksterium has entered a stage in life where every album she takes a keen interest in doubles as a personality test. Case in point: she has recently discovered she doesn’t enjoy being teased. Here at The Goat Review, we serve full frontal postitude. Can you dig it?

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Beneath a Steel Sky – Cleave Review

January 24, 2025January 24, 2025 Reviewed by Inksterium No comments

Beneath a Steel Sky’s debut, Cleave, goes far beyond being just another album title. Divided into two distinct sides, like an existential sandwich, this post rock/post metal debut seems carefully structured. It’s an A and B. It’s a start and a finish. It’s a rock and a metal. Two sides, one post-y sky!

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Julie Christmas – Ridiculous and Full of Blood Review

June 27, 2024June 26, 2024 Reviewed by Inksterium No comments

The raw intensity and emotional depth of Julie Christmas and her sound
with Battle of Mice opened our Inksterium’s ears to a new spectrum of sonic possibilities. And now, fourteen years after her solo debut, Julie Christmas is once again taking our reviewer through a labyrinth of dark and complex textures and feelings. Don’t let that smile fool you though… or maybe let it and grin bloody with Julie Christmas.

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Matrass – Cathedrals Review

June 18, 2024June 17, 2024 Reviewed by Trans-dimensional Being of Extreme Punctuation No comments

Believe me when I say that I approached Matrass initially with trepidation as the promo text declared that oft tricky “modern” goal. But Matrass then also declared that with this full-length debut, Cathedrals, they aimed to shed groove from their sound and lean heavier into post waters. So which direction are they bedding down after all?

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