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Evilyn – Mondestrunken Review

September 4, 2024September 4, 2024 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

How would a painter handle sound? Pretty damn well, it turns out. Mondestunken’s most defining feature is Alex Weber’s bass, a dynamic center-point which leads the songs on a drunken stroll, calling to mind the style of Aseitas or perhaps even the jazzy all out war of Sarmat’s debut album with its technical dissonance. But for all its flash, does it have its own style?

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Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2023

January 12, 2024January 12, 2024 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

The Goat Review presents an annual special: Metalligator’s Favorite Albums of 2023. Find out what our resident artist/writer deems worthy.

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Imago Resonantia – Celebrating the Visuals of Metal in 2023

January 8, 2024January 8, 2024 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

The Goat Review presents an annual special: Celebrating the Visuals of Metal in 2023. Sometimes visual art speaks louder than riffs.

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This Week In Metal, 2023 Week 45

November 19, 2023November 18, 2023 Reviewed by Inksterium No comments

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 The Lion’s Daughter, Convocation, Nightmarer, Dyssebeia, and Neurectomy, you can do that too!

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Nightmarer – Deformity Adrift: Reformed

November 16, 2023November 15, 2023 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

The concept that the band might want to re-engineer and partially re-record such a well realized album before it is even a year old is at once intriguing and baffling. Can the deformity go even more adrift? Let’s see how well Nightmarer float with the anomalies.

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Nightmarer – Deformity Adrift Review

May 7, 2023November 13, 2023 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

Most Dissonant Death Metal has the unfortunate effect of making Metalligator want to fall asleep but keeping him awake with cutting squeaky noises, this makes for an angry Gatorrr usually. Is it sleepy time? Not so fast.

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Crypts of the Unknown: Loss – Horizonless

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Ritual Ascension – Profanation of the Adamic Covenant Review

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