James Oskarbski, the main brain behind Odious Spirit, is not afraid to use all kinds of effects to create the best kind of oppressive music. The main ingredient on this fantabulous album is psychedelic guitar witchcraft. Get spooky with Odious Spirit!
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 40
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 Esoctrilihum, Ingurgitating Oblivion, and Blighted Eye, you can do that too!
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Spooktober Pairing! Regurgitate vs Peter Jackson
We here at The Goat Review embrace both the spooky in sound and in picture. Today, our own Scuttlegoat steps forward to recommend you an album from the gore-kissed side, Carnivorous Erection, and a film from the spewing side, Braindead. Partake in one or both or neither, just make sure it doesn’t last more than four hours…
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Ingurgitating Oblivion – Ontology of Nought Review
Some albums require the help from a friend. The harrowing dissonance and existential deathly throes of Ingurgitating Oblivion’s newest offering required such assistance from a mysterious figure named Scoopmeister…. which all begs the question, who up Ingurgitatin’ they Oblivion?
Read moreThis Week In Metal, 2024 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 Kanonenfieber and Unto Others, you can do that too! Off to neva nevalaaaand!
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Kanonenfieber – Die Urkatastrophe Review
Kanonenfieber barely qualify for the blackened death metal moniker. Their interpretation of war is one of pathos, bittersweet glory, and they express it in a matter both melodic and anthemic. And they sound surprisingly similar to Amon Amarth. Nothing like a good Viking raid in the trenches.
Read moreThis Week In Metal, 2024 Week 38
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 Vomitrot, Emasculator, Wraithfyre, and Pyrrhon, you can do that too!
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Pyrrhon – Exhaust Review
“…Fuck man, I just wanna go home” vocalist Doug Moore lambasts on “The Greatest City on Earth.” Thematically, Exhaust channels the most pissed-off version of Pyrrhon into a thirty-eight minute record, a record made by people broken down by the ever-growing financial strains of living in their home of New York City. What’s the deal with inflation anyway?
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Emasculator – The Disfigured and the Divine Review
Too often does an “all girl band” make that statement their main marketing gimmick. Labels too then are quick to jump on the train and defeat the emancipatory value that the tag can hold. But Emasculator? They’ve got a grip on this whole death metal thing. Rock out with your… um… head off?
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Crypts of the Unknown: Animosity – Animal
