Sühnopfer’s love of baroque themes makes itself known immediately in opening track “DSFR” with its classical guitar intro. These classical guitar motifs pop up throughout the course of the album, and they’re always a joy when they appear. Possibly unsavory baroque riffs.
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Arborescence of Wrath – Inferno Review
Arborescence of Wrath, a band adorned with members of Origin and Marduk, ventures into the realm of Technical Brutal Death Metal with their debut. Will their music soar above the sea of mediocrity, or drown into the pool of lacklustre blastfests?
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Blut aus Nord – Disharmonium: Nahab Review
I’m convinced that Vindsval, the figure behind peerless enigmatic Black Metal entity Blut aus Nord, picks which styles they want the next BaN album to sound on a whim. On any album, the listener could face beautiful Atmospheric or Melodic Black Metal, such as on one of the Memoria Vetusta albums or 2019’s Hallucinogen. Always bet on black.
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S.U.P – OCTA Review
OCTA is an odd mix of cleanly sung choruses and industrial metal riffs. Occasionally a doom metal riff or death metal moment will barge into the songs to great effect. A tale of estranged family?
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Aodon – Portraits Review
Portrait of a disintrested Gator.
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Daughters of Sophia – ソフィアの娘たち
The Daughters of the Sad Sadness Song fail to impress Cosmo.
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Hasard – Malivore Review
Springing from the rib of the odd opera-with-growls project Les Chants Du Hasard, Hasard takes a more conventional approach of classical infused black metal, as weird as that is to say. The titular musician Hasard is responsible for everything here apart from a great appearance from John Steven Morgan (of Wreche fame) on piano.
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Esoctrilihum – Astraal Constellations of the Majickal Zodiac Review
Esoctrilihum return with another exhausting opus through the cosmos, and intriguing our resident bat, Cosmo. Is this enough to slake his thirsts, or will he be trapped in the cosmos for eternity?
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Gorod – The Orb Review
Riffs are in their essence circular, a series of chords repeated over the course of a piece of music to make it feel more coherent or to carry a theme. On The Orb, Gorod ask themselves the scientific question of “What if the riffs were even MOAR circular?”, maybe even spherical? Get a load of this jawbreaker!
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