Whatever the reason, Trivax’s The Great Satan was a must check for me. So now we’re here, what’s there to be said about Trivax’s gentle critique of Ayatollah Khomeini’s policies through the medium of equally gentle music?
Read moreVauruvã – Mar da Deriva Review
There is a beautiful, dreamlike quality to Vauruvã’s take on black metal, yet it is achieved without losing bite. The inclusion of Brazilian folk and progressive passages has Anti-Peat hypnotized and floating around pleasantly in Brazil-occupied space. Come to Brazil with him!
Read moreSkaphos – Cult of Uzura Review
As metal subgenre hybrids go, mixing up black and death metal is one of the most natural and challenging pairings out there. It’s natural in that musicians gravitate towards taking the more extreme genres and blurring the boundaries between them to try and push things further, but therein lies the challenge too. If you do too little, you don’t stand out in a crowded field; do too much and it just becomes over-dense and loses its edge. Anti-Peat might just be telling you to edge into the kraken’s butthole with Skaphos though. Dive in!
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