Metal bands often aim to be mysterious and ambivalent. They feature cover art that is truly great, with hidden meanings, and band names that make you wonder how they came up with such clever names and what they really mean. Today, however, I am going to write about Pissgrave—the exact opposite of what I just described. Their band name and album art advertise exactly what you’re going to get: death.
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Tubal Cain – Slime Abyss Review
Black metal used to be about icy feelings — depression, hate , borderless self-expression. Scuttlegoat, for one, is quite glad that black metal musicians have discovered that having material that can actually be grabbed on to is beneficial. He wholly welcomes the rise of blackened traditional metal, which Tubal Cain and Slime Abyss fall into nicely. What once was kvvl is now kvlt again.
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Phrenelith – Ashen Womb
Danish deathmongers Phrenelith have unleashed a monstrous slab of death metal with Ashen Womb, an album that immediately engulfs the listener in its suffocating atmosphere. From the opening moments, Phrenelith’s dense, unrelenting sound conjures the spirit of Immolation, bombarding my senses with a massive wall of sound. This womb is made for rockin’.
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Crypts of the Unknown: Khonsu – The Xun Protectorate
