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Cult Burial – Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust Review

October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

Collapse of Pattern, Reverence of Dust strikes more vicious in sound than previous albums with an added focus on big headbanging riffs. And at the end of the day, who doesn’t want a big, fat, honkin’ riff??

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Paradise Lost – Ascension Review

October 8, 2025October 8, 2025 Reviewed by Metalligator No comments

This one doesn’t just sound like Paradise Lost. It is Paradise Lost! Almost as long as the novel too… does our Gator get caught up in the Ascension as any fan boy would? Well…

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Amorphis – Borderland Review

October 6, 2025October 5, 2025 Reviewed by Anti-Peat No comments

Being a metalhead of the generation that recognizes “Black Winter Day” within seconds, Anti-Peat has always had an interest in what Amorphis are doing. But when they enter the progressive borderlands of taste, will they still make him feel the deathly chills?

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Krigsgrav – Stormcaller Review

September 25, 2025September 28, 2025 Reviewed by Anti-Peat No comments

“Stormcaller jumps from genre to genre as the mood takes it, and it is highly impressive how seamless those jumps are”, Anti-Peat jots down in his notebook stained with metal salad and dirt from Texan trenches, wishing someone would just shoot at him through the thick atmosphere.

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Medieval Demon – All Powers of Darkness Review

September 23, 2025September 23, 2025 Reviewed by Anti-Peat No comments

If there is one thing that has changed about me since first being summoned to the Goat Review ranks, it is an ever deepening fascination with Greek black metal. It should therefore surprise nobody that my first act at the end of our summer break was to claim Medieval Demon. One evil gyro, coming right up.

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Der Weg einer Freiheit – Innern Review

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025 Reviewed by Cosmo No comments

2017 was a year of discovery for Cosmo. He learned a lot about himself, grew as a person, but more importantly discovered what would become his favorite black metal band of all time, Der Weg einer Freiheit. And now that DWeF is back? Well, he never really stopped stroking that stiff black metal eggplant of his…

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Arkhaaik – Uihtis Review

September 9, 2025September 7, 2025 Reviewed by Anti-Peat No comments

Arkhaaik’s pitch of bronze age hunting metal, complete with lyrics written in Proto-Indo-European, is one that naturally attracts skepticism. Spears up, y’all.

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Fell Omen – Caelid Dog Summer Review

September 5, 2025September 7, 2025 Reviewed by Anti-Peat No comments

Fell Omen sound like early Iron Maiden got very stoned, broke into a LARP, stole everyone’s gear and caused a giant brawl. Get vigor-checked by Caelid’s annoying giant dogs.

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