Welcome to 2025 with 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 Patriarkh and The Cimmerian, you can do that, too!
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Patriarkh – Prorok Ilja Review
For the uninitiated, this band’s original name was Batushka, or at least vocalist Bartłomiej Krysiuk tried to claim it was. But after a legal battle for the rights to the name Batushka, Krysiuk lost and was forced to rename his incarnation of Batushka. But he didn’t name it Bartushka. You might just like Prorok Ilja anyway!
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Annus in Morte – The Year in Death Metal 2024
The Goat Review presents an annual special: the year in review of death metal 2024. Your time is precious. We did the listening for you! Ho! Ho! BLEEEEEEEUUUUUGH!
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This Week In Metal, 2024 Week 13
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 Saturday Night Satan, Suldusk, Dionysiaque, Eden’s Decay, and Vorga, you can do that too!
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Suldusk – Anthesis Review
When Emily Highfield released her debut Suldusk album Lunar Falls, Metalligator wasn’t particularly convinced. For its few harsh edges, the folk music did not particularly strike a chord, and the album just flowed by without making much of an impact. But Anthesis? What the folk happened here??
Read moreThis Week in Metal, 2023 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 Disfiguring The Goddess, Seraphic Entombment, Shining, Steven Wilson, and Arborescence of Wrath, you can do that too!
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Wolfheart – King of the North Review
Tuomas Saukkonen‘s albums all sound the same. This is both good and not so good depending on the result. At worst it can feel like […]
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Crypts of the Unknown: Khonsu – The Xun Protectorate
