It’s a great year to be a blackened death metal fan. There’s been an embarrassment of riches within this microgenre so far — Diabolic Oath, Endless Loss, Heresiarch, to name a few — and we haven’t reached the halfway point of the year yet. So how will Adversarial’s new album Solitude with the Eternal… fare in this blackened treasure trove?
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 15
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 BRUTALISM, Diabolic Oath, Manasseh, Replicant, and Altar of Betelgeuze, you can do that too!
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Diabolic Oath – Oracular Hexations Review
Offering the listener a few seconds of respite before annihilating them with megalithic riffs, opener “Rusted Madness Tethering Misbegotten Haruspices” does a fantastic job setting the tone for the rest of the album: biblical-level annihilation. Riffs on riffs on riffs are the order of the day here! Needless to say, Cosmo is very excited about this one.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Bergraven – Det Framlidna Minnet
