Spectral Voice – Sparagmos Review

Sparagmos is the Dionysian rite of tearing something asunder, be it animal or sometimes human, followed up by the consumption of the flesh. It’s fitting that Spectral Voice, the thicker, meaner counterpart to Blood Incantation, return after seven years with their sophomore full-length designed to tear you apart and leave you a mangled corpse. Pick yourself up love, it’s really not that bad.

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Demoncy – Black Star Gnosis Review

A new challenger for “most boring black metal act in 2023” has entered the arena, however, and its name is Demoncy. An old school Black Metal band from the USA, Demoncy had a brief period of activity in the 1990s before vanishing for the better part of a decade until the early 2010s. Black Star Gnosis is their first outing on the modern juggernaut label of the underground, Dark Descent Records. Why won’t they reply to our asks for a victory speech?

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Spectral Voice / Undergang – Spectral Voice / Undergang Split Review

Caveman Death Metal feels dime-a-dozen nowadays, with many up and coming bands deciding to pursue this filth-encrusted style. But none of them do it quite as well as the filthy Danish kings themselves, Undergang. Here they’ve teamed up with American Death Doom cave-dwellers Spectral Voice in a surprise shadow-dropped split release—crouching caveman, hidden riff.

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